Our foundation CreativeWishes.org used the services of GiveMeaning.com to put legs to our goal of raising money for themed kid's bedrooms.

The team at GiveMeaning.com was more than helpful and had excellent ideas to help us reach our goals. GiveMeaning.com is a excellent site to gain exposure for your projects as well as to provide a home base where people can watch the progress and see the impact they are making.

Tyler Buchanan / Creative Wishes (www.atomicthemeworks.com)

Create fantasy themed children's bedrooms for children with illness and disease

In late 2006 Working To Empower discovered GiveMeaning and jumped on the opportunity to partner with such an effort. The humanitarian industry has long been needing a more business-driven approach to "aid" projects and this is one such effort. Rather than funding projects on the basis of connections and official partners, GiveMeaning allowed people to browse various projects and fund those that are most appropriate, planned, and accountable.

Working To Empower is a small Canadian organization that works in refugee and displaced areas within the field of HIV education in partnership with local community based organizations. Our work has expanded into additional fields, with the help of GiveMeaning, to building a home for children living with HIV and education sponsorship for orphaned females. The staff at GiveMeaning have been helpful at every turn as our organization evolves and scales up our activities, the media presentations facilitated through the GiveMeaning website allow WTE to offer new mediums where donors and visitors can learn about the work that our organization does. Fundraising is one of the more difficult tasks an organization has to do, GiveMeaning offers support for organizations doing good work in the field of raising funds, which is also accessible worldwide, filling in a needed gap within the field of humanitarian assistance.

Logan Cochrane / Project Founder / HIV/AIDS Project Director, Working To Empower

Help build a new home for children in Ethiopia

GiveMeaning has helped us reach out to a greater community of supporters. The website tools and support staff at GiveMeaning have been great resources to our charity that we would not otherwise have been able to do on our own - processing credit card donations, personalized fundraising pages for youth that we work with, and a team of people that are sincerely interested in our projects.

GiveMeaning works for us. Tom and the rest of the staff are quick to reply to our needs and work hard to do what they can to make GiveMeaning work for us. What a great resource. I feel lucky!

Rick McFerrin / Project Founder / Founder / Director, Two Wheel View

Two Wheel View - Canada

Pratham BC Foundation is thoroughly delighted to have GiveMeaning.com as a partner in our fund raising efforts. Our Walkathon last year raised over $8,000 to help illiterate children. One third of that was collected by GiveMeaning.com. Our participants were able to invite their friends directly. We had people donate online from the US, Eastern Canada and even from England. Givemeaning has taken Pratham BC's cause globally. We would like to commend them for giving us this very effective tool and exposure.

Pratham BC Foundation / Project Founder

To help illiterate children in India

When we decided to organize an event to raise funds for Lifewater Canada, one of our biggest concerns was how to access the maximum number of people in order to achieve our goal. We were planning a local event, but that alone wouldn't reach the valuable network of friends and family across Canada and the world who we hoped would support our cause. A good friend told us about the GiveMeaning website and it seemed like the perfect tool to engage support beyond our local community. The support and encouragement we received from every member of the Givemeaning team was amazing. They spent their time explaining the philosophy and purpose of Givemeaning, gave much needed advice on our page, were patient with my complete lack of computer saviness, and even came to our local fundraiser. I was so impressed with their professionalism and passion for their work. And perhaps most importantly, over half the funds we raised were donated on line at Givemeaning.com and as a result, we surpassed our initial goa!l We will definitely use the Givemeaning website again next year at our anual fundraiser for Lifewater Canada.

Katrina Nightingale

To drill a well for a community in Africa

GiveMeaning has provided outstanding support for our project. Every donor transaction has been handled reliably and professionally, and each feature on the project page helps us to quickly and easily communicate with our donors during every stage of our project. But my appreciation for GiveMeaning extends beyond these services. What I appreciate is what GiveMeaning does for projects that haven’t even been created yet. By understanding what drives people to create these projects in the first place, and giving them a space to debate and develop solutions on any issue and in any location, they really do dissolve the obstacles between desiring to make the world a better place and acting on that desire. It’s incredibly important work and they do it incredibly well.

Christine Egger / Project Founder

For Yubaraj

The GiveMeaning Foundation and Tom Williams came to my rescue in August 2006 just a month after launching my fund raising campaign to raise awareness and funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign. Being a newbie in the fund raising arena, I was having problems tracking my campaign's progress against my modest goal of $19,340 or $1 per foot representing the height of Mt. Kilimanjaro that I will be climbing in October 2007. Making my progress totally visible and transparent to my donors was one of my highest priorities. After all, who am I? Why would anyone donate to support my efforts without knowing where the funds would eventually end up?

GiveMeaning has helped me track my project's progress and also provides me with the vital visibility that all small fund raising efforts require. At no cost to us or to the Stephen Lewis Foundation, GiveMeaning gives us the support, resources and tools that we need to ensure that our donors receive their tax receipts, that our donations are all accounted for and the life saving funds reach the African Grandmothers (through the Stephen Lewis Foundation) and their orphaned grandchildren.

GiveMeaning allows each and everyone of us to help make a difference in the lives of those who are less fortunate. Congratulations Tom for finding a way of getting every penny of the donations into the hands of those who need them the most. And thank you for giving us the means to turn our ideas into realities.

Gisele Lalonde Mansfield / Project Founder

Gigi Climbs Kili for Family

Thank you to everyone who worked together on this fundraising project. We take our health care system for granted in this country, if you are sick you go to the doctor and are treated. After working with Kuwangisana and realizing how little health care was being provided for people who are really sick, I am thrilled that we can help in any way. Perpetua and the staff at Kuwangisana are working very hard to improve health care delivery at the grassroots level.

"Givemeaning" provided a way to raise funds that were not covered yet. The medical needs and staff costs had to be a first priority for getting care on the ground. The next stage is to extend the services by providing educational opportunities and coming together as a community to fight AIDS and reduce poverty.

It was great to have a place to collect funds for this project. People are moved to give but they also want to get a tax receipt. This can be very time consuming and weigh heavily on volunteers. Givemeaning provided tax receipts and a wonderful thank you to each one who donated to this project. I can also update you on the project's progress as the building is started in August. Special thanks to Nate and Tom for all your help. They explained the Givemeaning process very well and were great about getting back to me with assistance or ideas.

Thank you so much for working together with Kuwangisana for the health and well being of all in Sena, Mozambique.

Carol Kerr – Kuwangisana Volunteer in Canada
Perpetua Alfazema – Project Manager in Sena, Mozambique

Kuwangisana - Home Based Care for people living with HIV AIDS in Mozambique

GiveMeaning has provided me with an excellent forum for publicizing a project to assist destitute women in northern Ghana. Friends and other contacts who have donated funds are able to do so through the website and receive tax-deductible receipts. We are linked to a Canadian NGO which helps to provide accountability for funds disbursed to the project. Best of all, GiveMeaning allows donors to give directly to those who need assistance and avoids a great deal of bureaucracy.

Ann Thomson - Gushiegu Witches' Project
Give homes and support to the "Witches" of Gushiegu.

When I decided to raise some money to celebrate the success of my hipreplacement surgery, my intended recipient, St. Michael's Hospital simply did not have the infrastructure to provide the technical support for me to raise funds online. Through word of mouth, I was fortunate to have found GiveMeaning.com, who provided everything I needed in creating a weblink to my fundraising page, the technical support to update my blog and photos, but perhaps more importantly they gave an instant tax receipt to my supporters and remitted 100% of the funds I raised to my intended recipient... GiveMeaning gives true meaning to the raising of funds for good causes and I cannot say enough to thank them and I recommend them wholeheartedly to anyone with a worthwhile cause.

Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Andrew Jacob, Project Founder for 'Project Hipreplacement'

Be Hip ... please support hip replacement research

GiveMeaning is brilliant. Their helpful staff and easy-to-use technology not only helped get my project off the ground, but allowed me to raise almost twice as much money as I'd hoped to. A wonderful resource for small charitable projects.

Niall Filewod, Project Founder for 'OperationTextbook'

Help purchase school supplies for an Ecuadorian school

GiveMeaning.com was an excellent, effective way to fundraise for a small, specific funding goal like a toll metal roof for a new house in Niono, Mali, West Africa. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niono from 1990-1992, I bonded closely with my host family; 15 years after I left my Malian mother, Amou Guindo, needed a metal roof for a house for her eight grandchildren who'd come to live in her concession. A year earlier she'd built a house with a mud-and-stick roof that caved in during a torrential rainstorm. GiveMeaning.com gave me a easy way to inform and connect my friends and family to her need and to the fundraising effort, and let me get the word out to people I didn't now. For the toll metal sheets, hooks and screws, beams and cement, Amou needed $2000; we raised $2525. The extra money went for screen doors and windows to protect her and her grandchildren from malaria. I can't thank GiveMeaning.com, and all the donors - the ones I know and the ones I don't - enough. They've given shelter from rain and malaria to a family I love dearly.

Tappan Heher, Project Founder for 'maliroof'

A Malian Grandmother's New Roof

My experience with Give Meaning was great. It was so amazing to have an idea that benefits people and have a whole crew of dedicated people to help me out and actually make it a reality. It allowed our fundraising team to reach family and friends outside of where we lived by donating securely online and receiving their tax receipt right away. It was also so amazing that little ol' me could put together a giving group and raise money and I didn't have to be a huge charity organization to help people out! Thanks for all of your hard work and helping us raise money for the BC AIDS walk 2007!

Julie Cerantola, Project Founder for 'WalkforLife'

Walk for Life 2007

We consider the team at GiveMeaning to be strong partners in the success of Agents of Change. They help us coordinate the fundraising efforts of our biggest "evangelists" and stakeholders, reach out to new communities of supporters, and streamline our online fundraising. This year 25 of our young cyclists will create personalized pages to help them reach a collective $75,000 goal!

While providing the tools and resources to effectively manage online fundraising campaigns and build communities of support, GiveMeaning also provides a team of people that truly care about the success of our project. Our success is their success - they are always very responsive to questions and it truly feels like they are part of the team. We consider the GiveMeaning team a big part of our organization's growth and success!

Shawn Smith
President – Agents of Change

Agents of Change - Microloans to Developing World Entrepreneurs

I've been working with an informal school and community support program, Gatoto Community Primary School, in one of the slums of Nairobi since 2001. I've done several fundraisers for them over the years and have always had difficulty finding a good, inexpensive way to get the funds to them, while providing a tax incentive to my donors. Give Meaning has provided a perfect solution to this problem! The paperwork required is minimal, the site helps get the word out much farther than I've been able to do alone, and it lends credibility to the project for donors who may be skeptical of sending money to Africa. Working with Give Meaning has been a great experience, and I would do so again without question. Thank you, Give Meaning!

Jennifer Brass
Project Founder – "gatoto"

Support education for 980 disadvantaged children in Kenya!