Starting Monday and running through the rest of 2003, every donation will be matched - dollar for dollar!
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In the 12/10 issue of the Friends Newsletter:
1. How we are able to match your donations?
2. Why contribute using globalgiving.com?
3. GlobalGiving builds on partnership with HP
4. Project focus: Job training for poor mothers in Brazil
5. About GlobalGiving
6. About this newsletter...
Over the past two years GlobalGiving has received several donations earmarked spefically for GlobalGiving.
These donors asked that we give their contributions to the organizations most in need.
But being that we are working to create the world's richest marketplace for international giving - we
felt that it is important to let the market make such decisions for us. What better way to determine
where the funds should go than to ask the donors themselves?
Now, thanks to the matching fund, the projects that you care most about will receive twice as much.
And now that GlobalGiving gifts are here for the holidays,
your friends and family can reap the benefits too.
And feel free to forward this email. Anyone can take advantage of the tremendous opportunity.
Globalgiving.com is your gateway to grassroots giving opportunities from around the world.
And for those who are new to the site, we wanted to remind you of some its better features.
- GlobalGiving provides an project page for each initiative on our site. Project pages are
provide information about the project staff, goals and beneficiaries - all the information donors
need to make their contributions with confidence.
- To find your perfect project, you
can browse
by theme (education, health, etc.) or by region (Africa, Asia, etc.).
- For those that aren't quite sure what they want, our
project wizard will help you identify
one that matches your interests.
- GlobalGiving now accepts credit cards as a method of payment. So, for those looking to
get miles or points along with their donation... now you can.
GlobalGiving is enabling HP's employees to donate to international, grass-roots projects of
their choice through GlobalGiving Corporate - a service designed for specifically for employee
giving programs.
HP piloted the corporate giving program last year during its annual employee-giving campaign.
Based on overwhelmingly positive feedback from employees, HP has decided to include GlobalGiving
projects as part of HP's annual employee
giving campaign. Through a customized online interface, HP employees can easily search through,
support and track various social and economic development projects and directly the progress of
the specific project or projects that match their individual interests.
"At HP, we are committed to providing innovative and positive ways for our employees to
engage with the communities where we live and do business," said Debra Dunn, senior vice
president of Corporate Affairs at HP. "Through GlobalGiving, our employees are able to
support international programs as easily as they would local community causes."
If you are interested in getting GlobalGiving for your employee giving program
please email help@globalgiving.com or check out
our corporate page for
more information.
I grew up amid poverty in a slum in Rio de Janeiro and saw no light at the end of
the tunnel. Now, having to face my son's disease, I see hope because of Renascer?s
professionalizing project.
- Vera Cordeiro, CEO of Associacao Saude Crianca Renascer
Vera Cordeira founded the Saudé Crianca Renascer Assocation in 1991 at the Public Hospital of
Lagoa in Rio de Janeiro. Her aim was to provide emergency assistance to ill children from
low-income families.
Hundreds of children enter Brazil's public hospitals each month, many of whom live in
extreme poverty. Factors linked to economic, social, and psychological conditions create
unbearable burdens for these children and their families. Naturally, these adverse conditions
inhibit these children's recuperation and guarantee repeated hospital visits.
Renascer seeks to break this vicious cycle by providing families with the material
and psychological support necessary to foster home recovery or at least to minimize
patient suffering.
Since its inception, Renascer has been duplicated in seven public hospitals in Rio de
Janeiro and in two other cities, serving some of the country's poorest people and addressing
public health sector inadequacies at the same time. The project provides a model which Vera
hopes to reproduce in every public hospital in Brazil.
Today, Vera is asking donors to help build the "Fish Hook" project, with the main goal
to promote sufficiency amongst Renascer's assisted families. The Association firmly
believes in the idea: "If you give a fish, they will eat for a day; if you team them how
to fish, they will eat for a lifetime." To this end, Renascer, in collaboration with other
institutions, is offering family members vocational training courses in order to help them
improve their professional skills and long-term sufficiency.
"Fish Hook" will provide courses for 160 mothers. The courses include theoretical
notions, demonstrations and on-the-job training. Once these mothers are trained they
will enter the formal economy as professionals - providing hairdressing, manicure, and
sewing services - and be able to provide financially for their sick children.
Resources
- For more information, please click here.
- Email Vera, the project leader, by clicking here.
Founded by Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi, GlobalGiving spent the first three years
of its existence as DevelopmentSpace. Attracting immediate publicity, DevelopmentSpace was
quickly dubbed, "The eBay of international aid" by Fortune Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly.
Soon thereafter, we began using the term GlobalGiving to describe more tangibly what we do.
Based on strong feedback from our partners and customers, we decided to transition our name from
DevelopmentSpace to GlobalGiving, and to add new features that customers have been requesting.
In June 2003, we launched our new site at globalgiving.com
and worked to strengthen our position as the trusted global philanthropic exchange. Six months later,
GlobalGiving projects have attracted thousands of dollars in funding from hundreds of donors around the country.
GlobalGiving is
supported by philanthropy and industry leaders that include HP, The Skoll Foundation, The Omidyar
Foundation, USAID, The Sall Family Foundation, The Hewlett Foundation, The Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation, The Calvert Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, among others. For more information,
please visit our Web site at globalgiving.com.
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