In 2016, you and the GlobalGiving community made incredible things happen.
Here are sixteen of our favorite stories you made possible this past year.
raised since 2002.
$40.7M raised for nonprofits in 2016! PRAJWALA alone raised $155,582 for women and children who’d been victims of sex trafficking.
given from 5,892 donors in 2016 to support refugees fleeing the crisis in Syria.
GlobalGiving staff reported from Greece about how your funding was put to work.
effectiveness of the new experimental Ebola vaccine, which may mean we’ll never see another outbreak like 2014.
GlobalGiving partners are still working to help local West African communities recover and learn to prevent other infectious diseases like Tuberculosis.
granted at the release of the He Named Me Malala film to inspire advocates for girls' education.
Thanks to Participant Media and The Malala Fund, the Stand #withMalala campaign supported 23 local organizations in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the United States helping young people champion Malala Yousafzai's dream.
nonprofits bravely sharing how their failure led them to become more effective.
Yspaniola Incorporated won the $1000 grand prize for their Fail Forward story about learning from their failed (and revised) Spanish immersion classroom model.
GlobalGivers pooling their money every month to the Project of the Month Club.
In 2016 this group has given a combined $111K to support high-impact projects like Sumatran Orangutan Rescue!
net fee for most nonprofits using GlobalGiving in 2016.
Thanks to the extra $9.58M that GlobalGiving drove to nonprofits in the form of matching funds, promotions, and corporate donations this year, most of our partners actually earned hundreds more in "extra funds" than they were charged in fees!
raised for nonprofits on #GivingTuesday in 2016!
Our #MatchAMillion campaign with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation broke all our records for money raised in a single day on GlobalGiving! Alive Medical Services alone raised $76,360 for people with HIV in Uganda.
raised by GlobalGiving friends and family to help a staff member trade places with Martha from Awamaki.
When our teammate traveled from the US to Peru to visit one of our nonprofit partners, she raised funds from her friends and colleagues to send a Peruvian Awamaki staffer to an important textile conference in the US.
active total projects on GlobalGiving this year from 2,369 vetted organizations operating in 151 countries.
We added 1,799 new projects and 4 new countries in 2016! Introducing the “Protecting Iceland's Killer Whales” project, our first in Iceland.
GlobalGiving’s India Field Team
nonprofit organizations visited in India.
GlobalGiving’s first-ever local field team was made up of eight passionate travelers who conducted site visits and ran workshops for our partners across India.
granted by TripAdvisor Charitable Foundation to causes closest to employees' hearts, like Range of Motion Project.
One such grant helped Breyner run, walk, and jump with his new prosthetic leg!
miles biked across Italy for earthquake recovery.
Nick Moceri used his cycling trek through the mountains of central Italy to raise $10,000 for the Italy Earthquake Relief Fund to support recovery from August's deadly quake.
of our nonprofit partners report GlobalGiving helps them become more effective—and not just at raising money.
We launched GG Rewards to drive more support to the organizations most committed to learning — VAP has earned the most effectiveness points.
raised in a single month by the winner of GlobalGiving's first-ever Accelerator Program.
Creamos, a Guatemalan NGO, had never before tried crowdfunding, and used what they learned in the Accelerator to fundraise online for the first time.
countries with donors supporting Hurricane Matthew Relief in Haiti.
Our Hurricane Matthew Relief Fund is supporting 34 vetted, locally driven organizations in Haiti that will drive recovery for the long haul.