GlobalGiving

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GlobalGiving is a nonprofit fundraising marketplace founded in 2002 in Washington, DC, by two former World Bank executives. It connects individual donors and companies with grassroots nonprofits around the world, positioning itself as an intermediary that channels donations and corporate giving to locally led organizations rather than running campaigns of its own.

GlobalGiving is itself a registered US nonprofit, and its defining feature is vetting: it performs due diligence on every organization in its community to confirm charitable purpose, transparency, and valid registration with local authorities. Funds raised are passed through to the vetted partner organizations, and the platform sustains itself through a support charge on donations plus payment processing.

The platform's strength is reach and trust: a vetted-nonprofit model gives donors confidence and gives smaller international NGOs a credible channel to US and corporate donors they could not easily reach alone. The trade-off is that GlobalGiving is a curated marketplace with an application and due-diligence process, so it is not a route for an individual to launch a personal cause in minutes. For internationally focused nonprofits seeking legitimacy and corporate partnerships this is a benefit; for ad-hoc personal fundraising it is a barrier.

GlobalGiving has facilitated giving to tens of thousands of projects across a large number of countries since its founding, with corporate-giving and disaster-relief programs layered on top of its core marketplace. Donations are processed in US dollars under US data and regulatory frameworks, which internationally based organizations should weigh against region-native alternatives.