GlobalGiving

Our mission is to transform aid and philanthropy to accelerate community-led change. Community-led organizations leverage local knowledge, relationships, and assets. They are oriented toward community timelines and goals instead of externally imposed schedules and performance indicators. They understand community needs, culture, and means of enacting change.

Thats why we focus our platform, services, and products on enabling local change leaders around the world to succeed and moving funding more equitably to women and girls, Indigenous communities, crisis-affected regions, and others who are underserved. We aim to create a world where anyone who has an idea about how to improve their community can access resources, networks, tools, and information they need to fund and optimize their work.

At GlobalGiving, we recognize that change starts within, and to transform the world, we first must become more community-led ourselves.

To transform aid and philanthropy, GlobalGiving will scale its impact by 2030, driving 3x more funding, more equitably, to more underserved communities around the world. To scale up and move $1 billion to communities in need every three years, we must build the next generation of giving technology and inspire new donor markets beyond the US and Europe to support local leaders and underserved communities.

GlobalGiving has more than 21 years of experience in advancing community-led change.

We have developed custom technology systems to facilitate safe, fast, and easy exchange of money, information, and ideas across borders. Our staff has a wide variety of expertise, from managing large corporate giving programs to launching new giving products, to building the capacity of small nonprofits.

Crucially, we rely on our strong network of nonprofit partners to help us evolve and be community-led ourselves. This network includes more than 6,000 nonprofits in 175+ countries around the world.

Since our founding in 2002, GlobalGiving has raised more than $924M for more than 36,800 charitable projects in 175+ countries. In 2023, we developed a new strategic plan for continued progress through 2030.

Our comprehensive response in 2023 to a devastating night-time earthquake in Morocco is a strong example of GlobalGiving's place as a trusted connector between donors and local leaders at the forefront of response and recovery. GlobalGiving provided aid to the most impacted, often hard-to-reach communities thanks to our long-held partnerships with trusted nonprofits, such as the High Atlas Foundation. Our community raised more than $4 million for recovery, which powered the life-saving work of 16 different responding organizations.

We are on a journey to be more community-led ourselves, in order to inspire the same action in other funders. Our co-designed onboarding program for nonprofits, called Pathway to GlobalGiving, continues to be a strong vehicle for achieving more equity and diversity from within. We welcomed 328 new nonprofit organizations as GlobalGiving partners in 2023 through Pathway. More than 40% of our newest partners are from sub-Saharan Africa, which is almost double the representation from this region in prior years.