Partners
We have brought together a broad set of partners to build an open, efficient marketplace for international philanthropy. Without these partners, we would not exist today. All of us share a collective purpose of enabling people with great ideas for improving their communities and the world at large to get the support they need to make them happen. Each partner contributes in a different way:
CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
These companies and organizations support the GlobalGiving community by funding projects, enabling employees and other constituents to give to projects, and significantly increasing awareness of GlobalGiving around the world.
PROJECT PARTNERS
These organizations help GlobalGiving source and vet well run, high-impact projects around the world.
- Give to Colombia
- GlobalGiving
- Global Grassroots
- Global Vision International Charitable Trust
- GreaterGood South Africa
- Hands On Network
- HelpArgentina
- Innovations for Poverty Action
- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
- International Development Exchange (IDEX)
- International Medical Corps
- Lambi Fund of Haiti
- MADRE
FUNDING PARTNERS
These organizations are helping GlobalGiving build a scalable infrastructure that will enable donors to connect projects worldwide.
Corporate and Institutional Partners
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
The Company: Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD provides microprocessors, flash memory devices, and silicon-based solutions for customers in the communications and computer industries worldwide.
The Partnership: In 2004, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz launched the ambitious "50x15" business initiative, which aims to provide 50% of the world's population with Internet access by 2015. In 2005, GlobalGiving worked with AMD's Community Affairs division to evaluate alternative ways to augment the company's business strategies with complementary high-impact community and social strategies.
America Online
The Company: America Online, Inc., a division of Time Warner, Inc., is the world's leader in interactive services - providing consumers with the most valuable, convenient, relevant, and enjoyable online experience available through its flagship AOL® service. With an unmatched focus on consumers, AOL seeks to become an essential part of the way people live by connecting, informing, and entertaining their members however they connect to the Internet
The Partnership: AOL provides GlobalGiving with in-kind online advertising on a variety of AOL websites.
America's Charities
The Company: America's Charities is a leader in workplace giving solutions, delivering innovation and technology to payroll deduction charitable giving campaigns. The first nonprofit to develop internet-based workplace giving campaigns, America's Charities is a trailblazer, providing the tools employers need to conduct efficient, effective workplace giving campaigns.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving has become a member organization of America's Charities. This means GlobalGiving will be included in workplace giving campaigns such as the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), as well as many State and Local Government campaigns and campaigns at private sector corporations, such as Sears, Dell Computers, and Pitney Bowes. Participation will provide more than 4 million individuals an opportunity to support the work of community change worldwide.
Applied Materials
The Company: Applied Materials is the world's largest supplier of products and services to the global semiconductor industry, and one of the leading information infrastructure providers. As a core information infrastructure company, Applied Materials innovates and commercializes the processing and manufacturing technology that helps semiconductor manufacturers produce the world's most advanced chips.
The Partnership: In 2004, Applied Materials introduced its 7,000 US-based employees to international giving options during its annual workplace giving campaign. GlobalGiving has developed a customized, co-branded website for Applied Materials employees to identify and support hundreds of projects in over 80 countries. In addition, in response to the South Asian tsunami, Applied Materials donated $135,000 to a water purification project in India.
CIDI
The Organization: Since 1988, the Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI) has handled hundreds of thousands of public inquiries related to international emergencies. The Center, which operates under a grant from the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and initial support from IBM, has become a valuable resource to the public, as well as US government agencies, foreign embassies, and international corporations.
The Partnership: To enable web-based, direct giving to humanitarian and natural disaster relief and reconstruction, GlobalGiving has developed a disaster-related website sponsored by CIDI, accessible to the public through globalgiving.com.
eBay
The Company: eBay is "The World's Online Marketplace®," enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform on which millions of items are traded each day.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is a registered nonprofit on MissionFish, a service that allows sellers on eBay to designate all or a portion of their proceeds to a specific charity. In addition, eBay's GivingWorks team has provided GlobalGiving with innovative opportunities to promote its work to the eBay community and beyond. Learn more.
Ford Motor Company
The Company: In 2005, Ford Motor Company Fund contributions totaled more than $79 million. Through active involvement, the Ford Fund seeks to build partnerships with organizations that have a well-defined sense of purpose, a demonstrated commitment to maximizing available resources and a reputation for meeting objectives and delivering high-quality programs and services. The Ford Fund places priority on supporting organizations that promote diversity and inclusion.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is helping the Ford Fund extend its philanthropic reach to support communities where Ford has international operations. Ford employees, initially in Russia and Brazil, will have the opportunity to nominate community-based projects for Ford Fund support, and GlobalGiving will help the Ford Fund qualify and support nominated projects. GlobalGiving will also build an online giving portal for employees and the general public to join the Ford Fund in supporting these projects.
Gap, Inc.
The Company: Gap Inc. is one of the world's largest specialty retailers, with more than 3,000 stores and fiscal 2004 revenues of $16.3 billion. Gap operates four of the most recognized apparel brands in the world — Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Forth & Towne. Every day, Gap looks for new ways to connect with customers around the world, provide value to shareholders and make a positive contribution in the communities where they do business
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is helping Gap in its mission of social responsibility by helping its employees contribute to high-impact development and relief projects round the world. Through www.gapincglobalgiving.com, Gap employees worldwide can donate directly to specific projects nominated by other Gap employees.
The Company: Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine — an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is a grantee through the Google AdWords program. We have received a GoogleGrant which allows us to publicize projects and connect us with new customers at the precise moment when they're looking for an international giving opportunity.
Hewlett-Packard
The Company: HP is a company unlike any other, which serves everyone from consumers to small- and mid-sized businesses, to enterprises, to public sector customers with an extensive portfolio of market-leading solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of each customer segment.
The Partnership: HP makes GlobalGiving available as an employee-giving option to its 70,000 US-based employees. HP's leadership team has provided GlobalGiving with a number of unique opportunities to expand the community of corporations committed to positive international engagement.
National Peace Corps Association
The Company: The National Peace Corps Association is the non-profit organization of returned Peace Corps volunteers, former staff and friends committed to fostering peace through service, education, and advocacy.
The Partnership: The National Peace Corps Association and GlobalGiving are helping the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer community connect with and support high-impact, grassroots projects around the world — projects with direct links to RPCVs and NPCA members. Click here for more details about the partnership.
Organic Bouquet
Company: Organic Bouquet was formed in 2001 with the goal to establish the national market for organic flowers. We have accomplished this by encouraging growers to initiate organic production while creating widespread awareness of the need for organic flowers. Our ultimate goal is to protect the environment and improve farm worker safety by greatly reducing the use of toxic pesticides. We at Organic Bouquet believe it is our responsibility to demonstrate that business, social, and environmental interests can be successfully aligned, and by doing so, we can build a better, more sustainable future for all living beings of this beautiful planet.
The Partnership: Organic Bouquet will send a percentage of the proceeds from flower sales to Tibetan Natural Birth and Health Training Center, a project on GlobalGiving. Order your flowers now!
The New Heroes
The Organization: The New Heroes, a documentary financed by the Skoll Foundation, tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing education, light, opportunity and freedom to poor and marginalized people around the world.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving created the giving platform for documentary viewers and house party guests to donate to these 12 high impact projects around the world.
The North Face
The Company: The North Face provides an extensive line of performance apparel, equipment and footwear. Offering the most technically advanced products on the market, The North Face is the choice of the world's most accomplished climbers, mountaineers, extreme skiers, snowboarders and explorers. The North Face is committed to pushing the limits of design, so that its customers can push their limits outdoors - "never stop exploring."
The Partnership: The North Face and GlobalGiving have teamed to fund and promote community-based social and environmental projects around the world. The North Face sponsors as many as five expeditions a year, sending world-class athletes to remote international destinations. GlobalGiving helps source projects in areas where athletes explore, to enable the company to give back to those communities. The North Face fosters a broad base of support for these projects by enabling employees and customers to contribute as well. Starting summer 2005, customers will have the option to make contributions directly to projects at the register in The North Face retail stores across the US.
Pandora
Company: For almost six years now, Pandora has been hard at work on the Music Genome Project. It's the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Pandora has created an interface to make this available to music lovers so they can use this musical "connective-tissue" to discover new music based on songs or artists they already know. PandoraTM is the doorway to this vast trove of musical information. With Pandora you can explore to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings — new and old, well known and completely obscure — to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
The Partnership: Pandora and GlobalGiving have teamed up to connect Pandora's huge audience of music lovers with GlobalGiving projects that use music to improve the lives of people around the world.
Participant Productions
The Company: Participant Productions is a film company with a mission to make the world a better place. They believe in the power of media to create social change, but the movie is just the beginning. The goal is to deliver compelling entertainment that will raise awareness about important social issues, educate audiences and inspire them to take action — at Participate.net.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving has created the giving portion of participate.net, to allow film viewers to take action by giving to projects with objectives that complement Participant Productions' films.
PayPal
The Company: PayPal, an eBay Company, enables any individual or business with an email address to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online. PayPal's service builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards and utilizes the world's most advanced proprietary fraud prevention systems to create a safe, global, real-time payment solution.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving has included PayPal as a main payment option for any project on globalgiving.com. GlobalGiving also has a store on paypal.com which allows PayPal users worldwide to learn about and support the work being done by project leaders around the world.
SRA Touchstone
The Organization: SRA Touchstone Consulting Group is a Washington, D.C. based management and strategy consulting firm with a proven track record of successfully serving senior government executives. Their mission is to help leaders in both the public and private sector achieve outcomes intended to make their organizations more efficient and effective.
The Partnership: SRA-Touchstone has helped to build the concept and platform for GlobalGiving.
Sundance Channel's Eco-mmunity
The Organization: Eco-mmunity is Sundance Channel's interactive website which complements the environmental programming block THE GREEN. Eco-mmunity serves as an innovative social networking platform that facilitates identification, discovery and communication among eco-conscious individuals, businesses and environmental supporters. Stay in touch with your environment on Eco-mmunity.
The Partnership: Sundance Channel's Eco-mmunity hopes to encourage its members to learn about the highly vetted and successful charities that are a part of Global Giving Green. These charities are an amazing way of effecting positive change in the world, and since Eco-mmunity is all about making it easier to be a green citizen, a cross-promotional partnership between Global Giving Green and Eco-mmunity holds great potential for a better world.
Thanksgiving Coffee
The Organization: Founded in 1972 by Joan and Paul Katzeff, Thanksgiving Coffee has long been a pioneer in transforming the coffee business. Their philosophy blends business and politics; their goal is to be a force for change in support of social and economic justice, and environmental sustainability. Thanksgiving Coffee founder, Paul Katzeff, has worked closely with coffee-growing communities around the world — helping them get to know their product and their customers better and greatly enhancing the value of the coffee crop in the process. The result is a rare and extremely high-quality family of coffees produced by growers who participate fairly in the sale of their coffee.
The Partnership: Thanksgiving Coffee and GlobalGiving teamed up to connect coffee drinkers directly with GlobalGiving projects through the purchase of country-specific coffee blends. By choosing Thanksgiving Coffee, coffee drinkers directly help communities in Nicaragua, Indonesia, or Uganda.
Visa International
The Company: Visa is the world's leading payment brand and largest consumer payment system, enabling banks to provide their consumer and merchant customers with a wide variety of payment alternatives.
The Partnership: Visa's relationship with GlobalGiving underscores its commitment to ensuring that its products and services are an integral part of the infrastructure being developed to promote social and economic development in communities worldwide.
Whole Planet Foundation and
Whole Foods Market
The Company: The Whole Planet Foundation represents a significant expansion of Whole Foods Market's mission to actively participate in our communities. With more than 200 stores, we now have the scale and scope to give back to the global community. The creation of this foundation directly connects Whole Foods Market customers, the general public and Team Members (employees) to the villages in developing countries that supply us with products. Establishing these community partnerships will contribute to the economic well being of the communities where we source products. Please join us in the fight against poverty by empowering those who are in it through entrepreneurship.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is helping Whole Foods team members and customers support specific projects of the Whole Planet Foundation through a customized online giving portal connected with the Whole Planet Foundation's new web site. Customers and team members alike will be able to designate gifts to specific projects and to track the impact of their donations.
Yahoo!
The Company: Yahoo! Inc. is the Internet's leading global consumer and business services company, offering a comprehensive network of essential services for Web users around the globe as well as businesses of all sizes.
The Partnership: As one of Yahoo!'s preferred non-profit partners, GlobalGiving works with various divisions of Yahoo! to provide Yahoo! members and visitors with giving options that match their interests in international issues.
In addition, we work with a number of other institutions to provide project sourcing and vetting services as well as custom giving programs. These institutions include Telluride Foundation, The Marilyn and Henry Taub Foundation, The Morgan Family Foundation, Heidrick and Struggles, and Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Project Partners
Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a global nonprofit venture fund serving the poor through building sustainable and scalable organizations that bring affordable, critical goods and services to the poor.
Agros International
Agros enables families caught in generational cycles of poverty in developing countries to own agricultural land, attain economic sustainability, and realize their potential in thriving villages.
Ashoka Innovators for the Public
Ashoka is a global organization that invests in social entrepreneurs through stipends and professional services to allow "Ashoka Fellows" to focus full time on their ideas for leading social change.
BRAC USA
BRAC USA is a brainchild of BRAC, the world-renowned, Bangladesh-based non-profit organization. BRAC USAs mission is to raise awareness of BRACs successful community development model, mobilize resources and cultivate business partnerships to support BRACs global expansion.
CHF International
CHF International's mission is to be a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in low- and moderate-income communities around the world, helping them to improve their social, economic and environmental conditions.
Asociacion Conciencia/Fundacion Desarrollar
Asociacion Conciencia is a political organization founded in 1982. Its objectives are the education of sectors at risk, the promotion of democratic, values and the development of communitarian networks.
Citizen Schools
A national provider of out-of-school learning programs for middle school students. We mobilize business, civic & community volunteers to participate in education by teaching hands-on apprenticeships.
Creating Hope International
Creating Hope International provides education and health to the neediest people in the world at the grassroots and fosters community participation through culturally sensitive education and training.
Dreams Can Be Foundation/Dreams Brasil
Dreams Can Be Foundation is a US nonprofit charitable organization working in partnership with grassroots organizations offering developmental opportunities to Brazil's impoverished youth.
ECLOF (Ecumenical Church Loan Fund)
ECLOF is a not-for-profit ecumenical organization based in Geneva. ECLOF's mission is to provide fair credit for human development and sustainable communities. ECLOF has 40 committees worldwide.
Freeplay Foundation
Working primarily in Africa, we provide vulnerable populations with access to information and education using self-powered Lifeline radios, which do not require batteries or electricity.
Geneva Globa
Geneva Global was created by donors for donors. Geneva Global works for thoughtful donors who insist upon results from the money they give. We provide independent research, insightful advice, and grant management so our clients can invest where their giving will change the most lives.
Give India
Give India's mission is to promote efficient and effective giving that provides greater opportunities to the poor in India.
Give to Colombia
Give to Colombia is a US-based umbrella organization that creates, promotes and facilitates alliances among international donors and Colombian social organizations. Its mission is to become the most professional, transparent and effective means for grant making to Colombia, by promoting alliances and generating innovative and scalable solutions.
GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving has selected and re-invited certain projects which had successfully participated over the past year. These projects represent quality and innovation in the developing world.
Global Grassroots
Global Grassroots, a 501(c)3 non-profit, offers training in social entrepreneurship and investment in grassroots social change projects to advance women's well being worldwide.
Global Vision International Charitable Trust
Working with local grassroots charities and NGOs in over 30 countries across the globe, the Global Vision International Charitable Trust manages and fundraises for numerous long-term programs.
GreaterGood South Africa
GreaterGood South Africa is an online nonprofit giving marketplace that allows businesses and private individuals to make a meaningful contribution to development work in South Africa.
Hands On Network
Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. We are a growing network of more than a half million volunteers changing communities inside and outside the United States. Hands On Network creates and manages nearly 50,000 projects a year, from building wheelchair ramps in San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities.
HelpArgentina
HelpArgentina is a bridge that connects the International community of social investors with responsible, efficient, and transparent organizations within the Argentine Social Sector.
Innovations for Poverty Action
IPA is dedicated to creating and evaluating innovative solutions to global poverty and policy problems. We believe that action based on rigorous evidence will accelerate eradication of global poverty.
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is a global organization working to speed the development and distribution of preventive AIDS vaccines - the world's best hope for ending the AIDS epidemic.
International Development Exchange (IDEX)
IDEX partners with grassroots economic empowerment organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We support our partners through grant-making and alliance-building activities.
International Medical Corps
IMC is an apolitical, nonsectarian international relief and development 501(c)3 organization working in 22 countries around the globe.
Lambi Fund of Haiti
The Lambi Fund works in partnership with rural grassroots peasant organizations to support economic justice, democracy and alternative sustainable development in Haiti.
MADRE
MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with women's community-based groups worldwide to address issues of health, education, economic development and other human rights.
Marketplace 2005
These projects were selected through public online voting from a pool of more than 150 nominees to participate in the GlobalGiving's Innovation Marketplace at the Conference on Borderless Giving.
MBAs Without Borders
MBAs Without Borders is bringing innovative solutions to developing countries by matching experienced business volunteers with local businesses and NGOs to unleash a big secret... Business Can do Amazing Things!
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against impossible odds. 92% of donations go directly to people in need.
The Mountain Fund
Our mission is to organize grassroots nonprofits from a diversity of disciplines and support these organizations' efforts to eliminate poverty, its causes and symptoms, in mountainous communities.
Near East Foundation
The Near East Foundation is celebrating 90 years of helping the people of the Middle East and Africa build the future they envision for themselves. NEF is about equality, partnership and ensuring that those with whom they work gain power over their situations. Thus NEF builds capabilities, communities, and friendships.
Open Society Institute
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.
Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance
The Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance is committed to assist the people of the Ouelessebougou Region in Mali, West Africa, through a long-term development relationship.
Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy
PCP is a nonprofit with the mission to promote philanthropy. It is the first Government authorized certification agency and strives to mobilize resources to reduce the endemic poverty in Pakistan.
RARE
Rare is an international non-profit conservation organization in Arlington, VA whose mission is to protect wildlands of globally significant biodiversity by enabling local people to benefit from their preservation.
Relief International
Provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, and development assistance to victims of natural disasters and civil conflicts worldwide.
The Rotary Foundation
The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty. The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
Search for Common Ground
Search for Common Ground is an international non-governmental organization that works to transform the way the world deals with conflict away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions.
Seed Initiative/Seed Awards
An initiative of IUCN, UNDP and UNEP, the Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment & Development (Seed) Awards honor outstanding new entrepreneurial ideas for sustainable development worldwide.
The River Fund
The River Fund, a volunteer nonprofit organization, provides direct care, spiritual, and educational support to people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, serving those who are often alone and in need.
The Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs.
The Synergos Institute
Synergos is an independent nonprofit organization. Its mission is to work with partners to mobilize resources and to bridge social and economic divides to decrease poverty and increase equity.
The Tech Museum Awards
The Tech Museum Awards honor innovators and visionaries from around the world who apply technology to improve the human condition in education, equality, environment, health, and economic development.
TechnoServe
TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries.
Trickle Up
Trickle Up helps the lowest income people worldwide take the first steps out of poverty by providing capital, business training and support essential to the launch or expansion of a microenterprise.
WaterPartners International
WaterPartners International envisions the day when everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water. Their mission: inspire people to act; develop sustainable water projects; and enable donors to invest wisely.
Whole Planet Foundation
The Whole Planet Foundation represents a significant expansion of Whole Foods Market's mission to actively participate in our communities. With more than 200 stores, we now have the scale and scope to give back to the global community. The creation of this foundation directly connects Whole Foods Market customers, the general public and Team Members (employees) to the villages in developing countries that supply us with products. Establishing these community partnerships will contribute to the economic well being of the communities where we source products. Please join us in the fight against poverty by empowering those who are in it through entrepreneurship.
Women for Women International
Women for Women International was founded to help women overcome the horrors of war and civil strife in ways that can help them rebuild their lives, families, and communities.
Women's Funding Network
The Women's Funding Network is a partnership of over 128 women and girls' funds and philanthropic organizations. Women's Funding Network works to improve the status of women and girls by strengthening its member funds.
World Bank Development Marketplace
The Development Marketplace promotes social entrepreneurs with innovative development ideas through early stage seed funding, and links them to partners with resources to help implement their vision.
World Neighbors
By supporting self-reliance, leadership and organization, World Neighbors partners with poor rural communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to overcome causes of hunger, poverty, and disease.
Funding Partners
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Foundation: The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, established in 1926 in Flint by an automotive pioneer, is a private philanthropy committed to supporting projects that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.
The Relationship: The Mott Foundation provided critical support for building the original globalgiving.com technical infrastructure.
Omidyar Network
The Network: Omidyar Network is a mission-based investment group committed to fostering individual self-empowerment on a global scale. Established in June 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar, the Network derives its focus and values from Pierre's experience as founder of eBay.
The Relationship: Omidyar Network has provided funding to GlobalGiving to assist in building scalable infrastructure for viral marketing, open access, and additional donor channels.
The Sall Family Foundation
The Foundation: The Sall Family Foundation makes grants primarily in the areas of education, health and nutrition, and conservation.
The Relationship: Because of the Sall Foundation's key support in the earliest stages, GlobalGiving was able to invest in infrastructure that will enable us to scale our international giving marketplace.
The Skoll Foundation
The Foundation: The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Social Edge, an online community sponsored by the Skoll Foundation, connects social entrepreneurs and other thought leaders, engaging them in dialogue and discussion and promoting information sharing and learning.
The Relationship: The Skoll Foundation has provided funding to GlobalGiving to assist in building a scalable infrastructure that enables many donors to support the work of social entrepreneurs around the world.
USAID (Global Development Alliance)
The Organization: The Global Development Alliance (GDA) mobilizes the ideas, efforts, and resources of governments, businesses, and civil society by forging public-private alliances to stimulate economic growth, develop businesses and workforces, address health and environmental issues, and expand access to education and technology.
The Relationship: GDA's partnership with GlobalGiving offers an opportunity to help create a new marketplace and through it, to enhance the impact of GDA's foreign assistance investments.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Foundation: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes grants to address the most serious social and environmental problems facing society, where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a difference over time. The Foundation places a high value on sustaining and improving institutions that make positive contributions to society.
The Relationship: The Hewlett Foundation has made it possible for GlobalGiving to expand our partner base, enabling us to scale our efforts to increase employee giving to international projects. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes grants to address the most serious social and environmental problems facing society, where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a difference over time. The Foundation places a high value on sustaining and improving institutions that make positive contributions to society. The Hewlett Foundation's grant made it possible for GlobalGiving to expand its partner base in its efforts to increase employee giving to international projects.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Foundation: David and Lucile Packard believed America to be the home of a unique type of organization dependent upon private funding and volunteer leadership. Together, universities, national institutions, community groups, youth agencies, family planning centers, and hospitals constitute a great American tradition that complements government efforts to focus on society's needs. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation was created in 1964 by David Packard (1912-1996), the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, and Lucile Salter Packard (1914-1987). Throughout their lives in business and philanthropy, the Packards sought to use private funds for the public good, giving back to a society which enabled them to prosper.
The Relationship: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is supporting GlobalGiving's work leveraging philanthropy to address climate change.
WK Kellogg Foundation
The Foundation: The WK Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. The founder, W.K. Kellogg, the cereal industry pioneer, established the Foundation in 1930. Since its beginning, the Foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems.
The Relationship: Kellogg provided funding to enable GlobalGiving to pilot employee giving programs. This effort was successful and has led to a significant expansion of this capability.
Friends of GlobalGiving
A-Ha Design
The Company: A-HA-DESIGN makes inspirational, affirmation jewelry and accessories to empower and renew the soul and help people discover the vast power within them to fulfill their highest levels of achievement in all aspects of their lives. And, as we are all interconnected, we will then initiate a more positive, healing power for the benefit of the entire world. The jewelry and accessories serve as stimuli for positive reinforcement.
The Partnership: A-HA-DESIGN has partnered with GlobalGiving by linking to its website to support the company's vision of self-empowerment and helping others. A-HA donates 10% of net sales revenue to GlobalGiving and allows its customers to choose which projects their 10% will be donated to.
Alonovo
The Company: The concept of alonovo.com is to provide an intelligent, informed online shopping experience for the powerful consumer demographic. By directly integrating trusted Business Social Responsibility ratings coupled with a large, competitive array of products (from Amazon) into a visually compelling and simple user experience, we have started to redirect consumer spend. Our mission is to catalyze a constructive relationship between an informed marketplace demand and the business supply chain. This will help accelerate a "race to the top" among businesses that are working to balance people, planet and profit.
The Partnership: The GlobalGiving-alonovo.com community generates between 6% and 8% commission for each purchase through the Alonovo/Amazon shopping cart.
Barefoot Books USA, LLC
The Company: At Barefoot Books USA, LLC we celebrate art and story that opens the hearts and minds of children from all walks of life, inspiring them to read deeper, search further, and explore their own creative gifts. Taking our inspiration from many different cultures, we focus on themes that encourage independence of spirit, enthusiasm for learning, and sharing of the world's diversity. Interactive, playful and beautiful, our products combine the best of the present with the best of the past to educate our children as the caretakers of tomorrow.
The Partnership: Barefoot Books USA, LLC will send a percentage of its yearly proceeds from Little Leap Forward sales to Building Schools for China's Earthquake Victims, a project on GlobalGiving.
Brain Train Academy
The Company: Welcome to Brain Train Academy, a personal and professional development training company dedicated to inspiring positive change in your life. Based in Edinburgh, we are Scotland's leading NLP Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner NLP Business Practitioner and Hypnotherapy Diploma Certification providers. We are licensed by the global provider, the Society of NLP and the British Institute of Hypnotherapy/Psychotherapay(BIH).
The Partnership: We plan to sponsor the “Dazzling stone Home for Children” Sirukalathur, Kundrathur, Chennai-69, Tamilnadu 600069, India, and help them reach their Remaining Goal to be Funded.
Cramster.com
The Company: Cramster is a global online study community that fosters learning in Math, Science, and Engineering subjects.
The Partnership: Members who contribute to the Cramster community are eligible to earn karma points that can be redeemed for rewards, including a donation to a GlobalGiving charity project of choice.
The Denali Commission
The Organization: Introduced by Congress in 1998, the Denali Commission is an innovative federal-state partnership designed to provide critical utilities, infrastructure, and economic support throughout Alaska.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is working with the Denali Commission to develop and implement a dynamic and innovative "marketplace" for economic development. To be launched in late 2005, this competitive forum will provide native Alaskan artists with an opportunity to highlight their talents and needs, and a chance to win significant financial support through prize money.
Development Alternatives, Inc.
The Company: DAI provides social and economic development solutions to business, government, and civil society in developing and transitioning countries.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving has assisted DAI in the creation of its first and only employee giving/matching program by developing a customized website for DAI employees. Donations made by employees to projects are matched by the company.
e Paper Flip
The Company: e Paper Flip™ by Aglaia software has developed a technology that enables us to convert printed publications into impressive digital online publications that are fully customized. In doing so we capture the visual feel of flipping through pages, even hearing the page flip; now you will be able to read through a magazine online, view video and audio files, do advanced word search, attach sticky notes and much more. Our prayer is that magazines, books, and catalog publishers will realize that we have created the solution; now, there is no need to destroy millions of trees in order to produce these publications.
The Partnership: e Paper Flip™ has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and many sleepless nights in creating The Real Solution to help save the environment; we are doing everything possible to reach our goal which is to convert all publications into online publications.
Energy Guru
The Company: Energy-Guru enables global adoption of renewable energy. It provides free competitive quotes /bids / estimates to consumers and business for their renewable energy projects like Solar, Small-wind, Geothermal or Biomass. Consumers and corporations driven to reduce energy costs and global warming, please submit your free quotes / bids / estimates request today to take advantage of free service offering from Energy-Guru.com or through email contact@energy-guru.com or 001(703)272-3504.
The Partnership: Energy-Guru.com appeals to GlobalGiving users and partners to reach out to us and we appeal to Energy-Guru.com users to leverage GlobalGiving for fulfilling socially responsible cause.
Exquisite Safaris
The Company: Exquisite Safaris is the pioneer in private, luxury, philanthropic travel worldwide. The Exquisite Safaris philanthropic mission is to include a visit to a humanitarian outreach project into every private, luxury, guided safari, tour and expedition we operate. The resulting personal introductions create cross cultural friendships that generate trust, respect, and generous donations that have funded grassroots humanitarian projects worldwide.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is pleased to support Exquisite Safaris in its effort to connect philanthropic travelers with great humanitarian projects around the world.
First Choice Relocation
The Company: First Choice Relocation is a family owned and operated long distance moving service provider offering a variety of moving related resources. They utilize a winning combination of the most accountable and experienced professional staff, along with all of the latest technical innovations and time-tested methods, to raise the industry standard to perfection. They dedicate themselves to being the most respected one-stop-shop for all of your moving needs.
The Partnership: First Choice Relocation has partnered with GlobalGiving in an effort to donate directly a portion of the proceeds from every long distance household move they service in the United States. They are also committed to promoting these causes by encouraging their expanding customer base to assist in personal donations of their own.
FunAdvice
The Company: FunAdvice is an advice website that is unique in that it wants to help make the world a better place through improved cross-cultural understanding and greater religious tolerance. Through the site, individuals are able to get advice on any issue, so long as it's a positive one. And with sites launched in the US, India, the UK and China, the site aims to promote worldwide respect, tolerance and human rights.
The Partnership: FunAdvice and GlobalGiving want to work together to make the world a better place by promoting respect, tolerance and human rights. Through cross-linking from each website, this important message can reach a greater number of people.
Giving Circles Network
The Company: GCN supports Giving Circles in making their contributions more meaningful via networking, leveraging of resources, and enhancing the impact of their charitable donations. Giving Circles – a form of shared giving and social investment networking – is a growing trend in philanthropy whereby community organizations established by individuals are seeking to have greater involvement in the giving process. By supporting Giving Circles and other forms of shared giving, GCN hopes to ultimately enable more resources to be mobilized for charities and enhance the experience and quality of giving.
The Partnership: GCN and GlobalGiving seek to support one anothers' missions.
Giving Circles Store
The Company: The Giving Store went live September 2008 with an online store where all-natural, eco-friendly, and/or handcrafted items can be purchased with 10% of the retail price donated to the shopper's choice of 13 non-profits. Finally a place to shop and make a difference by giving the greatest gift of all: a donation.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is happy to work with The Giving Store in its efforts to assist its customers in donating to charitable causes.
Global UR
The Company: This international development networking site and webzine provides a space for knowledge exchange, where people from around the world can meet to share their experiences and insights, and work together to solve global problems. Four times a year the GlobalUR site publishes an interactive webzine with a particular focus on a global issue and best practices for solving the issue. The site also offers development exchange for events, job postings and development programs.
The Partnership: Global Giving supports Global UR in its efforts to facilitate the sharing of insights and experiences to solve global issues and make the world a better place.
inRESONANCE
The Company: inRESONANCE, Inc. (iR) is a strategic productivity partner determined to apply our expertise for the benefit of schools and nonprofits in the pursuit of their missions. Our suite of intelligent, open, and customizable database solutions brings control and flexibility to key operations - fundraising, constituent management, admissions, and registrar - with the simplest user interface on the market. We are committed to sustainability, the sharing of resources, and the artful use of technology.
The Partnership: inRESONANCE is part of the nonprofit world and considers it our honor and our duty to give back and collaborate with other good efforts. We are proud to be a part of Global Giving. We invite our employees, clients, and friends to join us in supporting high-impact, grassroots efforts to fund and promote community-based social and environmental projects around the world.
JK Group
The Company: Since its inception in 1989, JK Group's mission has been to provide its clients with the most comprehensive, technologically advanced and cost-effective solutions to corporate philanthropic programs. JK Group currently works with 175 of some of the largest and most recognized companies in America, and annually disburse over $420 million in charitable contributions.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving and JK Group work together to ensure that their joint customers can easily integrate GlobalGiving custom giving websites and projects into comprehensive workplace giving programs.
Kike Calvo
The Company: Kike Calvo, an award-winning photographer and bilingual journalist who specializes in shooting open water in developing countries, is using GlobalGiving to give back to the places he's visited. Kike has linked his photography career and passion for the environment with international philanthropy, donating a percentage of the proceeds from his HABITATS show in Zaragoza, Spain to the GlobalGiving project in India, Assist women regenerate degraded natural resources.
The Partnership: Kike is working with GlobalGiving to inform individuals inspired by his photography about how they can help projects around the world.
Magazines with a Mission
The Company: Magazines with a Mission connects socially conscious consumers with the magazines they love and charitable causes they support through a unique shopping experience at www.MyMagazineSubs.com. MyMagazineSubs.com donates 10% of each subscription purchase to the charity of the customer's choice, at no extra cost. Support GlobalGiving by purchasing your magazines at MyMagazineSubs.com!
The Partnership: MyMagazineSubs.com offers magazine subscriptions to socially conscious consumers. We donate 10% of each purchase to GlobalGiving when the customer chooses GlobalGiving from our list of charitable partners. The donation comes at no extra cost to the customer.
Matter of Trust
The Company: We link donations of business and household items/materials with the wish-lists of nearby nonprofits that can provide pick-ups or accept drop-offs. We serve the US, Canada and beyond. It's great for you, for charities, and it keeps useful goods out of over-flowing landfills, so it's great for the environment!
The Partnership: GlobalGiving often receives inquires from donors about donating tangible items to one of our projects. Through the partnership with Matter of Trust, GlobalGiving can recommend to donors an excellent organization to donate their tangible goods to.
Nashville Neuromuscular Center
The Organization: The Nashville Neuromuscular Center is a manual therapy facility in Tennessee relieving physical pain by restoring proper posture and biomechanics through massage therapy and corrective exercise.
The Partnership: Nashville Neuromuscular Center is focused on helping people to help themselves. And by partnering with GlobalGiving, they offer others an opportunity to do the same.
OneWorld.net
The Organization: OneWorld.net, an online hub for individuals & organizations, publishes U.S. and international perspectives on global issues gathered from its NGO partners and provides outreach and support to U.S.-based nonprofit organizations.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving is a OneWorld partner and its work is featured on the OneWorld site.
One Shared World
The Organization: One Shared World is a campaign to raise awareness and generate dialogue about global poverty and what Americans can do to help tackle it.
The Partnership: One Shared World is partnering with GlobalGiving to offer its constituents alternative gift-giving options for Mother's Day and other occasions.
PeaceRiot
The Organization: PeaceRiot is a clothing company dedicated to raising money for victims of war through the sale of fun fashions and accessories. Ten percent of every sale is donated to relief efforts in the Middle East, and other proceeds are used to sponsor local events educating youth about victims of war. Whether a new-age peace lover, a punk-rock rioter, or just a fashionista who cares, PeaceRiot has the perfect shirt or necklace for everyone.
The Partnership: PeaceRiot supports GlobalGiving projects in the Middle East by linking to GlobalGiving from its website. GlobalGiving supports PeaceRiot's unique approach to raising awareness of and support for relief efforts in the Middle East.
Sister Cities International
The Organization: Sister Cities International is a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network creating and strengthening partnerships between US and international communities in an effort to increase global cooperation at the municipal level, to promote cultural understanding, and to stimulate economic development. Sister Cities International leads the movement for local community development and volunteer action by motivating and empowering private citizens, municipal officials, and business leaders to conduct long-term programs of mutual benefit.
The Partnership: GlobalGiving has been selected to develop a website to be launched in conjunction with Sister Cities' 50th anniversary in summer 2005. This site will feature projects sponsored by members of the Sister Cities Sustainable Development Network (SDN) and youth programs, allowing supporters to give to SDN projects around the world. GlobalGiving will process all donations through the customized site.
SnagFilms
The Company: SnagFilms is committed to finding the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve. SnagFilms.com is both a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free and a platform that lets you “snag” a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of 250 films that is rapid