How are GlobalGivings services different from those of other giving facilitators?
GlobalGiving offers a variety of services that connect corporations, institutions, and individuals to locally-run projects around the world. GlobalGiving’s strengths are: • Its broad offering of projects from around the world in a wide variety of thematic areas like education, the environment, microfinance, healthcare, among others. • Its system for vetting projects through a network of nonprofit organizations who support social entrepreneurs. This network helps technology-challenged organizations post their projects and ensures that the projects are run by legitimate, highly-effective organizations. • Its highly-efficient giving platform that, because it enables donors and project leaders to connect directly with one another, eliminates much of the bureaucracy and inefficiency of traditional giving organizations. The result is that more of a donor’s money gets to the actual project level. GlobalGiving provides a great alternative for companies already working with organizations like U