GlobalGiving
Mission
Our mission is to build an efficient, open, thriving marketplace that connects people who have community and world-changing ideas with people who can support them.
Programs
GlobalGiving's online marketplace allows donors to find and fund grassroots projects that appeal to their specific interests. GlobalGiving offers projects in more than 100 countries, in a variety of themes ranging from education and health care to economic development and the environment.
Personnel Overview
Manmeet Mehta - Program Officer
Manmeet Mehta is responsible for GlobalGiving's open access initiative, increasing the presence of youth social entrepreneurs on GlobalGiving and provides support to social entrepreneurs on the site. Previously, she worked as a Program Development Manager at the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation designing and implementing a heritage conservation project in India and as a Sales and Mar
Dennis Whittle - CEO
Dennis Whittle is Chairman and CEO of GlobalGiving, which he co-founded in late 2000 after a career in the official aid sector. From 1997 to 2000, Dennis was part of a troika that led the World Bank's Corporate Strategy and Innovation units, where he co-led the team that created the Development Marketplace.
Mari Kuraishi - President
Mari heads up the GlobalGiving Foundation, which works with the hundreds of organizations working in the field who use the GlobalGiving platform. The Foundation's mission is to identify, vet, and support as many social entrepreneurs as possible to use the GlobalGiving platform successfully. Mari joined the World Bank in 1992 where she managed and created some of the Bank's most innovative projects
Personnel Statistics
Mari Kuraishi,
President
Founded in 2000
Employees: 22
Volunteers: 3
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