Ramya Raghavan is the Nonprofits and Activism Manager at YouTube. She manages the YouTube Nonprofit Program (launched at the Clinton Global Initiative in the fall of 2007), AgentChange (YouTube's nonprofits video blog), and nonprofit and activism video content on the site. Prior to joining YouTube, Ramya organized video campaigns for Campus Progress, a DC-based nonprofit organization, and worked for Advocates for Children of New York.

Blog Entries by Ramya Raghavan

A Billion YouTube Views Can Feed A Billion

Posted October 16, 2009 | 08:08 AM (EST)


Last week, we announced that YouTube serves over one billion video views per day. It's a pretty staggering number, right? That's also the number of people in the world who don't have enough food to eat. According to the UN World Food Programme, for the first time in history, there...

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YouTube: A New Way to Write Your Congressman

Posted March 5, 2009 | 06:39 PM (EST)


They say that two heads are better than one -- what about leveraging hundreds, even thousands of heads, to come up with solutions to today's most pressing issues? And more importantly, what if decision-makers were listening to what those heads had to say?

About a month ago, Congress found a...

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YouTube Users Respond to Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted December 10, 2008 | 02:50 PM (EST)


Today is Human Rights Day and over the years we've seen YouTube become a platform for people all over the world to discuss issues and take action for human rights. There are individuals who use YouTube as a megaphone for social change and there are nonprofit organizations that tap the...

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