Year In Review
2018
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$374M
raised since 2002.
You and 187K others gave $58M in USD in 2018. Red de Fundaciones de Puerto Rico alone raised $161,978 for hurricane relief and recovery. Recommended by Nicholas Kristof of “The New York Times,” Red de Fundaciones is building a stronger Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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landmines left in Banteay Ti Muoy, a village in northern Cambodia.
Landmines were a constant danger for 3,478 people in the village, but this year Halo Trust destroyed 2,058 anti-personnel mines and 67 anti-tank mines, restoring 302 acres of land to the community. Now villagers can walk, farm, and play in safety.
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$36M
driven by our generous corporate partners to 2,761 projects in 142 countries around the world.
It’s amazing what we can accomplish together! Take Riot Games, for example, one of more than 160 companies that partnered with GlobalGiving in 2018. The video game company rallied 4 million of its players and employees who gave more than $1.7 million for 32 GlobalGiving nonprofits in 20 countries—wow!
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children who now have consistent access to nutritious food every day since Bienvenido Project joined GlobalGiving.
Reliable funding from donors like you has freed up staff to focus more time on the sociological and psychological development of the Dominican and Haitian children they serve.
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$1.8M
raised by Facebook users to support locally driven disaster relief around the world.
The Facebook crisis donate button, powered by Facebook users and the Disaster Recovery Network at GlobalGiving, provided relief and recovery support for 270 disasters in 70 countries around the world. GlobalGiving distributed the funds primarily to local nonprofits, including SMEPS, an organization working to reduce the spread of cholera in Yemen.
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47,000
Hurricane Harvey survivors in low-income communities served by Target Hunger in the year following the storm.
“The middle class assumption is that everybody recovers the same way,” said Tiffany Stafford, a Target Hunger director. “Nothing could be further from the truth in the wake of a natural disaster,” explained Tiffany—one of 10 fellows selected to advance community-led disaster recovery as a 2018 Disaster Feedback Fellow of the Disaster Recovery Network at GlobalGiving.
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Rohingya refugees, half of whom are women, producing a rumor-busting radio program in refugee camps.
With support from Internews, these Rohingya reporters are providing reliable access to lifesaving information about access to essential needs such as food, shelter, aid, and other services in the camps. This is one of several initiatives funded by GlobalGiving donors to address the Rohingya Refugee crisis in 2018.
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$17.9M
extra driven by GlobalGiving to our nonprofit community in 2018.
The GlobalGiving team works hard to drive extra funding to nonprofits in from matching funds, promotions, and corporate partnerships. Most of our nonprofit partners actually earned hundreds more in these extra funds than they contributed in fees!
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countries represented in GlobalGiving’s Accelerator program. 1,192 nonprofits raised over $3 million through our virtual crowdfunding training program.
The creators of Mi Valedor, Mexico’s first street newspaper, raised more than $28,000 from 260+ donors in 3 weeks during an Accelerator. The Mi Valedor fundraising team shared their top fundraising tips with the GlobalGiving community:
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continents now represented on GlobalGiving!
We added the Oceanites project in Antarctica this year, and we’re officially spanning every continent! In 2018 GlobalGiving hosted nearly 6,496 projects from 2,969 vetted organizations operating in 161 countries.
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