Global Giving

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[Mona]

As it seems that Global Giving is having challenges on a regular basis I thought it would be easier to combine them all in one thread. Here is the latest:

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The Global Open Challenge
The Global Open Challenge is an opportunity for organizations around the globe to raise funds for their projects and the chance to become long term members of the GlobalGiving Community. A record 167 organizations from 40 different countries implementing projects ranging from children’s education, peace building to clean drinking water, are currently participating in the Challenge.

The Challenge is for participants to generate donations for their projects between August 18, 2009 (12:01 EDT) and Sepember 18, 2009 (11:59 pm EDT). The top three fundraising projects (most dollars raised) will also receive supplementary cash bonuses from GlobalGiving of $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. The project with the greatest number of unique donors will be awarded a bonus of $3,000.

ANY Project that is able to raise a minimum of $4,000 and at least 50 separate donors will be invited to stay on at GlobalGiving. These projects will be eligible to continue receiving donations from the general public, private and corporate foundations through www.globalgiving.com.
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So far one project from the really long list has been secured.

[linaka]

What a great idea - thanks for sharing the site, Mona - but wow, it's going to be hard to narrow down the list because there are so many wonderful projects here! Makes me wish I had a LOT more money to give - sigh!

Lynda

[cjp1973]

Lynda you are so right.  I could not choose, so I was glad to see that Mona had picked one, so I joined her. 

Here is that pick  Educate and empower girls in Anupshahar, India

If you find a money tree, let me know where I can get one, so I can donate to all the projects   

Charmaine

[Mona]

Lynda you are so right.  I could not choose, so I was glad to see that Mona had picked one, so I joined her. 

Here is that pick  Educate and empower girls in Anupshahar, India

If you find a money tree, let me know where I can get one, so I can donate to all the projects   

Charmaine

Wow, that was fast! "Educate and empower girls in Anupshahar, India" has already been secured together with 2 other projects! 

There are some more that have received already enough money but need more donors to reach the minimum of 50 people. There are still 23 days left for the challenge. If you want to take a closer look, here is the link: http://www.globalgiving.com/dy/v2/globalchallenge.html

[Mona]

Sorry to bother you again with this challenge, but I have read some minutes ago the description of one of the other projects and it nearly broke my heart. Especially as I was the first person ever to donate to it. Here it is:

Safe Water to 120 Albino Families in Tanzania

For an Albino in Tanzania, fetching water from a natural source and getting home safely, one need to be extra lucky, even when is armed with a machete. There have been since last year albino killings in Tanzania as the albino organs, particularly genitals, limbs, breasts, fingers and the tongue are in high demand by people involved in mining and fishing activities in the Lake Victoria Zone, especially Mwanza, Shinyanga, Kagera and Mara regions."They cut my daughter quickly,” she said, making hacking motions with her hands. She had dropped out of school because of short-sightedness a common problem for albinos. - Mother of a killed Albino daugheter, A victim of Albino killings

Mariam (28, the poor lady on the photo below) from Ntobeye Village in Ngara district, Kagera region, was lucky enough to have survived after she was invaded last year at her home by two unknown people who entered through the window while sleeping and chopped her both arms. She cried for help and neighbours turned up on time and the inviders disappeared with one of her arm, while the second one was left hanging and had to be cut off at the hospital as could not be re-attached. By then she was six months pregnant and the bleeding was threatening not only her life but also her unborn baby, who is now doing well with her hand caped Albino mother. She might have survived this attack, but the threat remains with her to date, and this further hand caps her living.

Through this project, some sixty water storage tanks will be constructed at the homes of vulnerable Albino Families to enable them to harvest and store rain water for their needs. Also provide skin protection, vision aid and home solar lighting.

If you want to read more, there is a word-documented attached that offers additional information: http://www.globalgiving.com/pfil/3567/projdoc.doc

[Marianne N59° 23' 60 - E18° 19' 60]

Sorry to bother you again with this challenge, but I have read some minutes ago the description of one of the other projects and it nearly broke my heart. Especially as I was the first person ever to donate to it. Here it is:

Safe Water to 120 Albino Families in Tanzania

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Mona!
I have been following this tragedy on the BBC ever since they started to cover it and am delighted I finally found a possibility to do more than read about it.

Marianne

[cjp1973]

Sorry to bother you again with this challenge, but I have read some minutes ago the description of one of the other projects and it nearly broke my heart. Especially as I was the first person ever to donate to it. Here it is:

Safe Water to 120 Albino Families in Tanzania

I to have seen this on BBC and CNN International but missed it somehow reading through the Global Giving Challenge.  Thanks Mona.

[Mona]

Thank you all so much! With your help we have been able to push the Safe Water to 120 Albino Families in Tanzania project from the 82nd to the 55th place in the challenge! 
http://www.globalgiving.com/dy/v2/globalchallenge.html#

Would be really great if we could push it a bit further up the ladder to bring it to other peoples attention!

[linaka]

I made a donation to the Albino Water project under my name and also under my dad's name so it should count as two unique donors - I really hope it reaches both $$ and donor goals by the end of the challenge!

[Mona]

Just a short update. 

Thanks to the help of some very generous people  the Safe Water to 120 Albino Families in Tanzania project is now with donations of $619 from 17 different donors on the 52nd place of the challenge. Thanks!

[Mona]

Here is a nice new promotion running currently on GlobalGiving - quantities are limited!

Donate $100 or more to these or any other projects on GlobalGiving and receive a free copy of Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book Half the Sky!  Enter the promotion code "HALFTHESKY" when you check out.


In their book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalists expose the suffering of women throughout the developing world, and provide examples of how creating opportunities can transform lives.  GlobalGiving - one of the organizations Kristof and WuDunn offer up for "Do-It-Yourself Foreign Aid" - features a range of projects that help women fight oppression, poverty, disease, and abuse through education and opportunity.  Your contributions will help global project leaders create a better future for disadvantaged women and girls, their families, and their communities. 

[Mona]

The next challenge has started on Global Giving! 

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The Give More - Get More Challenge
The Give More - Get More Challenge runs through December 1. Donate to your favorite projects - the more they raise, the more matching funds they can earn. Projects that raise the most money, or get the most donations, can win bonus funding, too!

From November 10 through December 1, the Give More – Get More Challenge offers matching funds for your donations – the more donations a project receives, the more matching money they can earn. Additional cash bonuses will be awarded to the top three projects.

$0 - $2,500 donations => 30% incremental match
$2,501 - $7,500 donations => 40% incremental match
> $7,501 donations => 50% incremental match

The three projects that raise the most money will receive additional bonuses of $5,000, $3,000, and $1,000. The same goes for the three projects with the greatest number of unique donations – they will also be awarded bounty funds of $5,000, $3,000, and $1,000. In the event that multiple projects competing in the Give More Get More Challenge are "tied" as far as number of unique donors, the project with the most funds raised will be considered the leader.
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The list of projects taking part is really long so I am sure you will find something you would like to support. 

Some of my personal favorites are:
Affordable Sanitary Pads for 1500 Ugandan Girls
Lotus Pedals - Help Cambodian Girls Get to School!
Learning Centers for Rural Afghan Women in Herat
Educate and empower girls in Anupshahar, India

[Mona]

Just a little reminder - the The Give More - Get More Challenge is running for another 7 days. As I had written above all donations made during this time to one of the projects included into the VERY long challenge list will be matched.

At the moment there are still about $200,000 that have not been used so far for matching and it would be just a pity to let them go unused. 

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In addition to the projects I had pointed out in my previous post, here are some more you might find interesting:

BRAC schools in Sudan for 175 poor children (a project of one of the MFIs Kiva is working with)
BRAC health care for 30,000 people in S. Sudan (dito)
Support Entrepreneurial Drive of Women in Ghana (microloan project in Ghana)
Microloans for 400 poor women in rural Uganda
Micro-credit for disadvantaged farmers in Laos
Help Empower 300 Women in Kosovo through Education (a project of Women for Women International)
Teach 4200 women in the Congo (DRC) basic literacy (dito)
Vital Job-Skills Training for 500 Afghan Women (dito)
PlayPumps: Bringing Water to Children in Africa
Abir's Garden: A Playground for Si'ir Girls School
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And there many many more. Check it out! 

[Mona]

I am not sure if this is a new feature on Global Giving, at least it was new to me when I found it yesterday.  If you follow this link here http://www.globalgiving.org/matching/ you will find a list of projects where generous sponsors have offered to match donations. So if you choose to help one of these projects your donations will have an even higher impact!


Free and Educate 300 Bonded Nepali Girls
Matching of donations: 100% (total funds available: $18,000)
This project rescues 300 young Nepali girls from bonded servitude and provides them with six years of education, which will enable them to graduate from high school.
Touched by the contrast between the lives of their own grandchildren and the impoverished children around the world, this couple hopes that their “Global Grandparents” initiative can help make a positive and sustained difference in the lives of children in Nepal.

This project seems to have been such a great success that they have already reached their funding goal of $105,000  . However, donating is still possible and the matching offer is still there so it might be still available for further funding.
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Secondary School for Mozambican Girls
Matching of donations: 100% (total funds available: $25,000)
This project give young girls in rural Mozambique scholarships for the 8th, 9th, and 10th grades, with after-school and social worker support, giving them a new opportunity: to gain economic freedom.
Inspired by her visit to this project earlier this year, an anonymous donor has generously provided matching funds to motivate others to give - and in doing so, altering the courses of these young girls’ lives. These scholarships not only provide girls with a secondary education, but also the tools to gain economic freedom.
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Create a Safer World – Fight Terrorism Through Giving
Matching of donations: 100% (total funds available: $35,000)
Education, health care, and economic opportunity counter the influence of extremists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries by weakening their base of community support. Help us build a world in which the appeal of lives lived in dignity, opportunity, and hope triumphs over the allure of extremism and its use of terrorist tactics.
The Safer World Fund encourages people to fight terrorism by addressing some of its root causes. Basic education, vocational training and health care open doors for impoverished people around the world, particularly women and children. The Safer World Fund is composed of projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

[Mona]

I have not found yet something official, but through a project update I got the information that:

On March 16, 2010, GlobalGiving will be matching all donations made to any project on www.globalgiving.org by 30% (up to $1,000 per person)!  

[cjp1973]

GlobalGiving Bonus Day  See realtime leaderboard at link.

Want your donation dollars to have the greatest impact possible? Make your contributions to GlobalGiving projects around the globe go further with $75,000 of available matching funds! Online donations of up to $1,000 per individual donor/per project are eligible to be matched at 30% on Tuesday, March 16.

From 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 on March 16, 2010 (Eastern time/GMT-4) the GlobalGiving Bonus Day offers a 30% match for your donations. Additional cash bonuses of $1,000 each will be awarded to the top project that generate the largest amount of money and the top project to solicit the greatest number of unique donations.


Also a couple of ongoing Matching offers:
50% matching to Safer World Fund projects
100% matching to Secondary School for Mozambican Girls

So that means these projects would get double matching today!

[cjp1973]

GlobalGiving.co.uk Project Challenge III is currently underway and ends on the 30th of April.  Projects that raise £1000 from 50 unique donors are then invited to stay on Global Giving to raise funds for their cause.

http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/leaderboards/project-challenge3.html

Looking at the list there are 3 projects that have raised the required £1000 but do not have the donors yet, so the smallest amount will help add another donor to their list.
Prepare 10 Russian Teenage Orphans for Adult Life.  They need 7 more donors.
Send a Tibetan girl in China to school for a year.  This needs 4 donors.
Grow plantains & support human rights in Cameroon!  This needs 12 donors.

Perhaps if any of these interest you, you could watch on Friday to see if they have met the donor threshhold.

[Mona]

Intel is currently generously matching all donations to select technology education projects on GlobalGiving. Double your impact and help kids learn!

http://www.globalgiving.org/leaderboards/technology-for-education/

There are currently 4 projects in the list you can support through this generous offer and there are still about $ 5,000 left to match. The projects include projects in Haiti, India, Egypt and a worldwide technology for education fund.