GlobalGiving Fund

Summary

This fund allows donors to contribute to a general fund that will be used to provide matching funds and other grant incentives for the projects in our catalog.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

This fund will support all the projects on the GlobalGiving website. Donations will be used to provide incentives like matching funds and bonuses during campaigns and Open Challenges for existing and new projects.

Activities

This fund ensures that more GlobalGiving projects receive the funding necessary to begin implementation.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £350,296
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £150,767
Total Funding Goal: £501,063

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Since 2008, every dollar that has been donated to this fund has resulted in an average of $6 reaching a project through an incentive campaign.

Project Message

It is one thing to make a donation and find out "you've purchased an ink cartridge"; it's a whole other thing to learn that the child of an illiterate mother is receiving at-home tutoring.
- Tilly Lavenas, GlobalGiving Donor

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Manmeet Mehta,
Program Officer
1023, 15th Street, Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20005
United States
+1-202-232-5784
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organisation

GlobalGiving
1023 15th Street NW, 12th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
United States
202.232.5784
http://www.globalgiving.org

Learn more about GlobalGiving and the project team.

GlobalGiving's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 18, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.

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