New Site Aims to Be YouTube for Charities

And someone else said they'd like to be a philanthropist, a Bill Gates or someone like that. That was just always in the back of my mind, and then a couple of months after I got back from Georgetown, when I saw my kids creating video clips and uploading them to YouTube, it just all kind of came together with that. You could be a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, you could be a philanthropist through all of the new technology right now. So the common man, the ordinary citizen could do just fantastic things in the world by pooling their resources.

FS: What is the intent of the site?
LGM: The intent is to be a portal for all of these grassroots causes around the world. In the nonprofit world it's very difficult to get grants and funding, especially for small projects, $4,000 to $5,000. It's very labor intensive for these people to try to find money. What I'm hoping is that people will come to the Web site and maybe donate $10 to three different projects and then they can watch the progress.