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GlobalGiving: $25 for Your Thoughts

GlobalGiving: $25 for Your Thoughts
Alice Korngold
Friday, Dec 3rd, 2010

Imagine sitting around your holiday table discussing which project each member of the family chose for theirGlobalGiving contribution. Because you gave each of them a gift card for $25, and they went online to choose from a plethora of options. Or, imagine giving gift cards to your employees, and they're sitting around a pizza at lunch discussing the projects they chose.

In a meeting with me yesterday, Dennis Whittle, Co-Founder and CEO, GlobalGiving, noted that it's "amazing how much of an impact you can have in the world with contributions of $10, $25, or $100. We give you the opportunity to choose a project that's personally meaningful; we make it easy."

Just to give you a taste, here are a few options for only $25: protect two children in Uganda from malaria (one child dies every 30 seconds from malaria); educate 15 women in Afghanistan to learn to read; provide one year of primary school education for a Nepali girl who has been rescued from virtual slavery; purchase a publictransportation card for a refugee to attend classes and job interviews in Chicago; or buy 147 feet of piping forsustainable irrigation for a Rwandan orphanage. Or, for $30, fund the nursery and planting of 150 trees in the Phillipines to support watershed conservation. Or, for $75, buy a bucket of chlorine tablets to combat Haiti's spreading cholera crisis;.

GlobalGiving vets the nonprofits before listing them

"The nonprofits that you give to through GlobalGiving are vetted by us," explained Whittle. Not only does GlobalGiving vet nonprofits for compliance with anti-terror guidelines and compliance with international guidelines of philanthropy, but GlobalGiving goes deeper with...

Read more here on Fast Company...http://bit.ly/eeCJTn

Korngold Consulting LLC assists corporations in building fully integrated, high-impact CSR strategies, including leadership development through nonprofit board service.  Korngold Consulting trains and places business executives on nonprofit boards, and consults to nonprofit boards and leaders to strengthen governance for financial and strategic success.

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