What We Do

Emphasis on Quality:

UniversalGiving®’s Quality Model® is known worldwide as the first trademarked vetting Quality Model®. UniversalGiving®’s Quality Model® serves Fortune 500 companies, foundations, Family Offices, high net worth donors and ultra-high networth donors, who must be protected.

Our Quality Model® provides in-depth due diligence on each NGO with whom we partner, establishing a trusting environment for giving and volunteering both in the U.S. and internationally. UniversalGiving® Quality Model® was founded by our Founder and CEO after she traveled the world, realizing that people needed a trusted way to give. When she returned, she created a 6-stage Quality Model®. To date, the Quality Model® is 24-stages and continuing to advance. Our latest innovation on the Quality Model® is “Me-Too/Workplace Misconduct” Vetting, which vets the workplace, protects employees, and demonstrates the integrity of the organization.

UniversalGiving® customizes our Quality Model® for clients. Our Quality Model® includes numerous areas, including but not limited to: Mission Statement, Patriot Act Compliance, OFAC, Financial Vetting, Management Review, Nonprofit Status Verification, Accreditations Review, Press Vetting.

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Lifestyle and Family Advising

UniversalGiving® guides you to incorporate giving as part of your lifestyle. We provide 1-1 advising; group family counseling; webinars; and group sessions on the following topics:

Coming into new wealth
Family sessions as a group and/or individually. We navigate wealth and its dynamics in your family; and how wealth impacts your external world.
Getting your children involved in giving and volunteering, with your family and individually
Guiding your children so they become ethical, wise stewards of your funds:
- To take initiative in life
- Find their calling
- Use finances wisely
- Become philanthropic givers in youth
- Give back to their community by volunteering

Giving Structures

We will advise you on the best giving structure: Direct giving, foundation, donor-advised funds

Set up agency agreements
Set up donor advised funds
Advice on Spiritual Poverty™

Strategic Giving

We will listen to and assess your vision and goals, helping you determine the best strategy to scale your giving efforts. This can be as a high-level individual giver; as the head of a foundation; or as the leader of your family foundation or giving efforts.

Strategy for your foundation or individual giving plans
Vetting any current nonprofits with whom you work
Identifying and sourcing the right non-profit[s] for your giving strategy, both domestic and internationally
Vetting services for NGOs and non-profits that align with your giving vision
Complete international vetting services, including equivalency determination and expenditure responsibility
Corporate strategy and corporate foundation strategy. If you are a founder, how does your company reflect its brand through giving? Vetting and disbursement services are provided domestically and internationally
Strategies for Foundations, Family Foundations, Corporate Foundations to support your brand and philanthropic goals
Education on imperative NGO vetting and IRS Laws

Donor Channels

We will help connect and introduce you to communities of like-minded high net-worth donors.

Obtain new insights, gain philanthropic training, and collaborate with people of wealth. We will connect you with the appropriate domestic and international groups
Connect you to other high net-worth donor groups: We have relationships with more than 15 donor groups with specific criteria which can provide community and learning
Find the right community with your peers and for your children
Obtain educational training or certificates, as an individual or as a family
Provide statistics in giving and volunteering
Form strategic partnerships and collaborations, allowing you to leverage and/or expand your work

Luxury Troubles™

We have all faced challenges in our lives. Yet for some of us, they are more serious. In developing nations, they are very serious. People do not have enough to eat, do not have jobs, do not have shelter. Those are real troubles in life.

In developed countries, sometimes our troubles are not as serious. It’s when an iPhone doesn’t work. The camera upload of photos malfunctions when you’ve tried four times. Maybe it’s the driver that is much too slow (but if you drove your speed, you’d likely only save 3 minutes). It’s the coworker who makes a sarcastic comment or the staff person who may be unkind. While we don’t wish for these circumstances, they are not life and death. These are Luxury Troubles™ from a developed nation, developed living.

Luxury Troubles™ are inconvenient. But they are not really troubles. We have nearly 90 million going to bed hungry tonight. That’s a real trouble, real life-threatening issues.

We seem to focus on Luxury Troubles™ in the United States and other developed nations. We complain about the smallest issue. It seems we focus on little items that annoy us.

Instead, we can focus on all we do have. We can focus on being grateful. Instead of focusing on petty grievances… they can be replaced with a singleminded devotion to thinking better thoughts, living better actions. We can Think and Live better, purer, unselfish lives. Perhaps then many of these Luxury Troubles™ are going to fade from our experience. Then we can take a step to serve others who really need help— people who are facing extreme poverty or death.

Let’s commit to focus on the positives, and to let go of our Luxury Troubles™ . Then, once we’ve begun to clear up and refocus our lives on the good, we can outreach and help others. But it’s a different type of help: It’s a renewed, positive, energizing mindset. It maximizes good and positive health for not only others — but also for ourselves.

We need to help people in poverty. We have to start with ourselves: Face our own Luxury Troubles™ . Commit to being positive. Commit to helping others in more serious need. Then, come join UniversalGiving® to Donate and Volunteer with us, in our San Francisco office, or all over the world. Give Your 100%!

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