Want a global vaccine rollout status update? (Spoiler: It’s uneven)
Many of us are excitedly and not-so-patiently waiting for our COVID-19 vaccine appointments. With plans to have all U.S. citizens eligible for vaccines by May 1, we can finally see a light at the end of this long tunnel. Everyone deserves access to this life-saving medical care. However, our experience in the U.S. vastly differs […]
Event fundraising trends and tips: Webinar recap
2020 saw a radical change in how fundraising events were held: Galas were replaced with Zoom calls, site visits with virtual tours and million-dollar gifts were celebrated over video chat. However, now that vaccination rates are rising and there is a (far off) light at the end of the tunnel, what will fundraising events look […]
What does it mean to be a changemaker?
What is a “changemaker”? Who can be one? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this special Q&A guest blog post with Vishnu Swaminathan, vice president of global partnerships at our Charity Alliance partner, Ashoka. Ashoka’s vision is a world in which everyone is a changemaker—a society that responds quickly and effectively to […]
3 ways Partners In Health is fighting for equity in medicine
For more than 30 years, Partners In Health (PIH) has taken the stance that “injustice has a cure” and continues to serves as an antidote to despair. With more than 18,000 staff present in 11 countries, their model uses a comprehensive approach – access to food, transportation, housing, and other key components of healing – […]
This COVID-19 update will make you feel good after a long year
It’s been a year since COVID-19 significantly hit the U.S. We all know what the pandemic response has looked like in our own communities, but the global response is difficult to picture. Our Charity Alliance partners have been fighting the virus and its impact since the beginning, ensuring relief and support for marginalized communities around […]
How your office can protect water this World Water Day
Just last month, I wrote a blog post about water – namely, the role our oceans play in our future. Now, as we approach World Water Day 2021, I return to discuss water with this question: What does water mean to you? The theme of this year’s World Water Day is “valuing water.” In the […]
Fighting for gender equality on International Women’s Day
This month we celebrate International Women’s Day! The history of this observance began in the early twentieth century, when National Women’s Day was initially founded in the United States. However, this global movement couldn’t be contained by one country’s borders. As women continued to fight for better work conditions and suffrage around the world, it […]
How Gates Philanthropy Partners continues to prioritize the most vulnerable
Last year, I wrote about Gates Philanthropy Partners as a beacon of hope during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly a year later, Jennifer Alcorn, a deputy director with the Gates Foundation and Gates Philanthropy Partners, is here to give an insider’s perspective on the organization and what it was like to rapidly scale […]
Learn how SEE International made their virtual fundraiser a success
Virtual fundraisers certainly present a number of logistical and technical challenges, and we are all missing the face-to-face community and connection building that were so important to in-person fundraisers. However, it remains critical that we find ways to garner donor support for our causes amongst the many other competing charitable interests. The greatest resource to […]
2020 Recap: Blogging our way through a worldwide pandemic
When we first began thinking about launching the Give Global Blog, our team discussed concerns about whether we would have enough content. Looking back at 2020, that fear now seems laughable, considering we posted more than 100 articles! It’s no surprise that much of our content over the last year was centered on the COVID-19 […]
