In The Press

• Financial Times Feature: The age of cyberspace offers aids for giving
  Feb 12, 2008
  

  Increasingly, the matching power of the internet is helping connect donors not just with charities but also with individual recipients in far-off countries. .......

  and UniversalGiving.org, where users can scroll down through a list of causes such as “children”, “health” and “disaster” relief and make donations that fund everything from a wheelchair to a well project in a refugee camp.

   

  
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• UniversalGiving?s Web Site Recognized By The International Academy Of Visual Arts
  Nov 15, 2007
  

  “We are very honored to receive this award and to be considered as one of the best sites on the Web,” said UniversalGiving CEO and Founder Pamela Hawley. “I commend the UniversalGiving team and the NGOs featured on the site. They’ve created a superior experience on the web, allowing people to give with ease and inspiration.”

  
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• CNN Money.com Feature: Spending big to save the planet
  Oct 16, 2007
  

  Making a donation to charity has long been a popular alternative to the gift-giving orgy that comes with the holiday season. But now that age of excess has arrived on the charitable front.

  
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• Los Angeles Time Travel Feature Article
  Feb 04, 2007

• New York Times Feature
  Dec 21, 2006
  

  Ms. Rodgers bought her husband’s gift through UniversalGiving.org, a Web-based nonprofit organization that links donors to charities. Ms. Rodgers was one of many who received e-mail messages and newsletters from the group enticing shoppers to “leave the crowds behind this holiday season” and instead consider providing safe drinking water to villagers in Vietnam, or seeds and bags for a nursery in Nicaragua.

   

  
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• Traditional Home Feature
  Nov 01, 2006
  

  Americans are using vacation time to give back to the global community.

  
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• Pamela Hawley speaks at Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp
  Aug 19, 2006
  

  Pamela Hawley, Founder and CEO speaks at the Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on "The Social Entrepreneurship Landscape"

  
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• World Federation of United Nations Associations Feature
  Jun 01, 2006
  

  In a time of competing agendas, limited resources, and further challenges, NGOs and other civil society organizations often have to struggle to survive and succeed in their mission. In 2002, Pamela Hawley founded UniversalGiving (www.universalgiving.org), a social entrepreneurship nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a global platform for action where anyone can contribute time or resources to exceptional organizations.

  
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• Employer-Sponsored Volunteerism: Difficult To Measure, but Benefits Are ?Priceless?
  Apr 01, 2006
  

  Last year Lisa Lynn, director of marketing communications for United Parcel Service’s (UPS) retail services in Atlanta, honed her leadership skills in an unlikely place: a dusty Texas border town.

  
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• Bay Area Business Woman Feature: Pamela Hawley, Founder, UniversalGiving
  Dec 01, 2005
  

  A pivotal moment came during a trip to Mexico with her parents, when Pamela Hawley, then only 12 years old, saw children begging in the streets, and she voiced, "This is unacceptable", which became her "mantra" forever. That same year, she began volunteering.

  
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• Joint Statement of Facts: Name Resolution between UniversalGiving (formerly GivingGlobal) and GlobalGiving
  Nov 08, 2005

• NGOs receive donations and volunteers through UniversalGiving!
  May 17, 2005

• UniversalGiving Featured by Duke's Fuqua School of Business
  May 17, 2005
  

  "An Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Making an International Impact"

  
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• Philanthropy Journal features UniversalGiving and NGO Partners
  Mar 04, 2005

• UniversalGiving and Quality Partners Address Tsunami Disaster
  Jan 05, 2005

• Pamela Hawley, Keynote Speaker at Craigslist Foundation
  Oct 20, 2004
  Supervisor Tom Ammiano introduces keynote Pamela Hawley, CEO of GivingGlobal; Mayor Gavin Newsom declares Nonprofit Appreciation Day.
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• United Nations Development Programme Partners With UniversalGiving To Raise Awareness Of Its Equator Initiative Projects
  Oct 08, 2004

• Walls Street Journal Feature: Have Donation, Will Travel
  Oct 01, 2004
  

  On a recent trip to Mexico, Kaki Hopkins flew on a private plane, stayed in an 18th-century inn and met her friends each evening for martinis and Chardonnay. But the real highlight of her stay was a luncheon with local women -- held in a cardboard-walled hut with a dirt floor and goats outside the door.

  
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