GlobalGiving raises $3m for Ebola relief through crowdfunding
Howard Lake | 18 December 2014 | News
Over $3 million has been donated via crowdfunding site GlobalGiving to 29 community organisations that are fighting the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
The GlobalGiving Ebola Epidemic Relief Fund helps donors make donations that reach organisations working on the front line of the Ebola epidemic.
Over 3,800 individual donors from 68 countries contributed to the appeal, as did some private charitable foundations. For example The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation gave $100,000 in a matching grant. In November, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust gave $2.2 million to the Fund.
The donations were made via the GlobalGiving.org and GlobalGiving.co.uk websites.
GlobalGiving’s co-founder and president, Mari Kuraishi explains:
“We work not only to connect small groups to major funding, but also to help those organisations build their own capacity and funding networks so that their communities will be stronger and more resilient in the face of ongoing challenges and future crises.”
She added:
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“We’re also making sure that local organisations have access to the information and ideas they need to be as effective as possible. We’re connecting organisations of all sizes to technology and information that would have otherwise only been available to major international NGOs.”
Nonprofits listed on GlobalGiving have all been vetted. They also commit to providing donors with regular updates about how donations are put to work.
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GlobalGiving’s mission is to catalyze a global market for ideas, information and money that democratises aid and philanthropy. Since 2002, GlobalGiving has helped raise more than $158 million from more than 400,000 donors for more than 11,000 projects in more than 160 countries through GlobalGiving.org and GlobalGiving.co.uk.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.