Media Coverage
“Browse a comprehensive site like Global Giving, where organizations around the world
have posted their wish lists. On Global Giving, my family has donated, for example, to an
aid group in Bombay, India, that keeps at-risk girls from being trafficked into brothels. For
Father’s Day last year, I suggested that instead of giving Dad another necktie, people
sponsor a “HeroRat” through GlobalGiving. HeroRats are trained rats that sniff out landmines
or TB cases, and what father wouldn’t want to be associated with a super-macho
super-achieving super-altruistic oversized rat? The column raised more than $150,000, and
last I heard the rats had detected 594 landmines in Mozambique.”
How to Change The World Nicholas Kristof, June 17, 2010
“When people ask how they can help in the fight against poverty, there are a thousand good
answers, from sponsoring a child to supporting a grass-roots organization through globalgiving.com
.”
The Luckiest Girl Nicholas Kristof, July 3, 2008
“Organizations like […] GlobalGiving have been crucial in spurring more small and
mid-sized charities onto the Web and bringing in more donors to their Web sites.”
Network Counts On Collaboration For Growing Good Rachel Mosher-Williams, August 4, 2008
“It took Bono and other rockers to push poverty to the top of the global agenda. Now it falls to Whittle,
Kuraishi, Easterly and other "rock stars" of economic development to help us make sure all that aid
money does some good.”
Aid Recipients Might Have the Best Ideas About Allocation Steven Pearlstein, July 13, 2005
“The GlobalGiving alliance positions the Agency in an interesting new space.
[…] It is a great opportunity for us to help create this new marketplace and
through it to enhance the impact of our foreign assistance investments."
Website Makes it Easy to Donate Aid Holly Wise, January 14, 2004
“What impresses me about GlobalGiving's approach is that as an intermediary between
donors and nonprofits, they go far beyond reviews of basic compliance and financial
information… In an ideal world, we will truly be able to assess and compare the impact
of various nonprofits - an area in which I have produced, tested, and published approaches in
subsectors since the 1980's. But until we find the perfect assessment models, GlobalGiving
evaluates nonprofits the best way we know how at this point--visits by in-country teams of
evaluators, and references by a large network of funders and experts in the field.”
GlobalGiving: $25 for Your Thoughts Alice Korngold, Dec 1, 2010
“Broadly defined as direct interaction between individual donors and projects
(with non-profits usually verifying cases and facilitating donations), microphilanthropy
— typified by groups such as GlobalGiving — is growing fast….
People want to have a say in where their money goes and know they are making a
difference. Thanks to technology, they can. Microphilanthropy is changing the face of
charity.”
Microphilanthropy is changing the face of charity Laura Vanderkam, November 18, 2010
GlobalGiving's Co-Founder, Mari Kuraishi
From her vantage point as a both a historian and a global economic leader, Mari Kuraishi has seen that human progress is not as inexorable as we tend to think. Society indeed advances, but people get left behind. The path of progress diverges or disappears altogether. Kuraishi teaches us to follow the crooked path and never forget one single decision does not lead to a life well lived.
Mari Kuraishi: The Crucial Moment is Now Business Innovation Factory Summit (BIF-7), September 2011
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