Kevin Bacon has leveraged his high network centrality into a charitable initiative, sixdegrees.org, which connects individuals to celebrities who advocate for a charity, or allows you to become a celebrity for a charity of your choice.  Somehow, it then networks people together, though I don’t really get how, and my guess is that the site cost more to put together than it’s raised so far.

Via Philantrhopy 2173.

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