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Eight Pedals of a California Lotus

Allan Hunt Badiner on unsung heroes who are making a difference.Allan Hunt Badiner

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Nonprofit organizations in the heart of Silicon Valley often marvel at the irony of not having websites to promote their work. Enter Nipun Mehta, a twenty-four-year-old former Sun Microsystems computer programmer who organized a network of over 350 well-meaning techies to create free websites for nonprofits on weekends and in their spare time. Mehta's organization, CharityFocus, appears to be meeting its stated goal of introducing the pleasures of dana—the Buddhist practice of giving—to hundreds of computer professionals. Mehta says ChariryFocus is "an experiment in the joy of giving without any expectation of material gain." Beneficiaries of CharityFocus include Sustainable Business Alliance, India Literacy Project, and California School for the Blind.

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