You might think of us as a marketplace for giving, but we are also a set of tools for building a giving community, both on your street and around the world. Each project is the beginning of a story - an opening line of some great unwritten tale. We have our heroes (social entrepreneurs), our villians (disease, unjustice, poverty, you-name-it), and every reader is also a novelist. We buy the next volume each time we donate, but we also write the next chapter when we comment on projects, updates from the field, and tell others about a project by email, on Facebook, CouchSurfing, LinkedIn, or whatever your flavor of friend-manager happens to be.That is from a very nice post over at our GlobalGoodness blog by Marc Maxson. (I urge you read the whole thing.)
GlobalGiving is often called the world's leading marketplace for online giving. But in reality, the extraordinary giving culture in the US is based on community rather than merely one-off transactions. People to give to causes and initiatives in their local community, and people often give to things their friends recommend.
GlobalGiving is leveraging the web to enable people across the world to connect around shared passions and concerns. Keep an eye out for new community features to in the months ahead. And if there is anything specific you would like to see, send it to us.
[GlobalGiving]
