September 7, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Today, charity: water is celebrating their fifth birthday and we're thrilled to share a video with you that the team at charity: water produced as a thank you to the Big Omaha and Silicon Prairie News community! Here's the email they sent me with the entire community in mind as it's a testament to what our community did that made the amazing impact: Hi Jeff, My name is Lauren Miller and I'm … read more
May 17, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage… read more
May 9, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Ames Harry Potter. That was the first name called out when Google's PJ Anderson and Drew Rowny asked a room full of elementary school students to name a children's character. Anderson and Rowny traveled from Silicon Valley to Ames last week to honor Nathan Hidajat for being chosen as a regional prize winner in the Doodle 4 Google contest. They kicked off the ceremony with a demonstration of Google … read more
April 29, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Ames Back in February, we shared the story of Nathan Hidajat, who decided before he turned 8 that he wanted to give up his birthday for charity: water after watching the video of Scott Harrison on stage at Big Omaha 2010 (see our post Ames 2nd Grader, Nathan Hidajat, raises $1k for charity: water in 7 days). Nathan met his original goal — raising $1,000 — in a mere seven days. Not content to stop there, he's raised and met new goals several times since. … read more
February 13, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Despite the fact that here at Silicon Prairie News we're very much in the midst of preperations for Big Omaha 2011 one of our favorite parts of Big Omaha 2010 keeps showing up in the news. We ran two posts this week telling the story of Nathan Hidajat, a second grader in Ames, Iowa who was motivated to give up his 8th birthday to help provide clean and safe… read more
February 10, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Ames Yesterday, we posted about Nathan Hidajat, a second grader in Ames, Iowa who gave up his 8th birthday in a fundraising effort to help charity: water, a charity that works to provide clean drinking water to people around the world who don't have access to it. Nathan decided to give up his birthday after seeing a video of Scott Harrison, charity: water's founder, presenting at last May's Big Omaha. Nathan's father, Robert, answered a few questions for us by email yesterday about how… read more
February 9, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Ames Not many can deny that Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water, is a moving speaker. Harrison's story of personal renewal, his dedication to providing clean drinking water to those who don't have it, and his ability to redefine how we look at philanthropy has moved people all over the world; from the 500 people in the room at last May's Big Omaha to President Obama who mentioned the organization's efforts in a recent National Prayer Breakfast. read more
December 30, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
As we round out 2010, and reflect on some of the major initiatives that we were involved in this year at Silicon Prairie News, the Silicon Prairie News & Big Omaha charity: water Campaign was one of the most pivotal and encouraging efforts that we accomplished as a community. When I published the first post challenging our community to raise $5,000 for one well by the time charity: water founder Scott Harrison… read more
October 15, 2010 by Guest Contributor
Omaha (This is a guest post written by Rahul Gupta, an Omaha entrepreneur, erstwhile actor and recent addition to the team at the Planet Water Foundation.) A lot can happen in five months. I recently tweeted that Scott Harrison’s talk about charity: water at Big Omaha 2010 “literally changed the trajectory of my life.” That was no hyperbole. That talk, at that event, conspired with that moment to force… read more
September 21, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're excited to release the first video in the series of presentations from Big Omaha 2010, which was held at KANEKO, May 12-15. We chose to begin with one of the most powerful talks from the event, that of charity: water founder Scott Harrison. Harrison's presentation was not only emotionally moving but it was a convincing call to action to get involved and… read more