By Tom Bird | Chairman, GlobalGiving Foundation
Approaching our original goal, we would like to reset expectations and stretch to double them. It’s working, so let’s aim higher. Core holdings for the next period are now set, and we will look for other investments to round out the portfolio. Your financial support is always appreciated, and so is your willingness to spread the word.
Feedback suggests that families have found it useful to look the fund over together, so encouraging families you know to consider spending some time here would be particularly useful.
2-15-08:
Thank for you the very strong financial support so far! We are working with several new project possibilities and anticipate some exciting new additions in the next few months.
We have completed a 3-part investment cycle with KickStart, and are graduating it from the fund. Emeritus if you will. The Human Capabilities Fund helped catalyze the involvement of New Profit Inc. (their first international investment), and KickStart continues to do great things on a larger scale.
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When a disaster strikes, recovery efforts led by people who live and work in affected communities are often overlooked and underfunded. GlobalGiving is changing this reality. Since 2004, we've been shifting decision-making power to crises-affected communities through trust-based grantmaking and support.
We make it easy, quick, and safe to support people on the ground who understand needs in their communities better than anyone else.
They were there long before the news cameras arrived, and they’ll be there long after the cameras leave. They know how to make their communities more resilient to future disasters, and they’re already hard at work. GlobalGiving puts donations and grants directly into their hands. Because the status quo—which gives the vast majority of funding to a few large organizations—doesn’t make sense.
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