If you’re like me, you probably make a new year’s resolution every year, stick to it for about a month and then slack off or lose interest by the end of January or early February.
So I recently asked my friend who always sticks to his resolutions how he does it.   He said, “I make myself [...]

New year’s is right around the corner and that means it’s time for new year’s resolutions.  Well, this year at GiveForward our new year’s resolution is to help more of our users reach their online fundraising goals.  That’s why we’ve decided to start a new section of our blog called the Fundraising Tip of the [...]

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Last Friday the most amazing thing happened to me.  For several months I had been training with my sister to run a half-marathon. It was my sister’s first half marathon and both of us decided to use the race as an opportunity to raise money for causes we cared about. My sister raised money for [...]

On December 6th, GiveForward hosted our first annual Ugly Sweater Pub Crawl to support three organizations that we think are working hard to prevent homelessness here in Chicago: StreetWise, Teen Living Programs, and the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation.

Last night a few local ABC News affiliates picked up a short story about GiveForward.  Click here to see our debut performance!

Our friend, Co-Op Images, is a non-profit in Chicago that focuses on bringing arts education to underprivileged youth.

Their programs range from glass blowing classes, to creating an on-air kids’ cooking show, to providing gallery space and professional exhibits for Chicago’s young artists.

Like so many non-profits, they struggle each year to come up with the funds they need to manage and implement new projects.

We hope that you will take a look at the three fundraisers they are doing, and choose the one that best fits your giving interests. We’re sure you’ll find one of them to be a good fit!

Click here to see the details:

Chi-Town Chefs- a youth produced cooking show

So Fresh Printing- a youth run t-shirt business to support art education

Art! Art! Art!- supplies for youth arts programs

We would like to invite all GiveForward users to tune in OR join us tonight at Raven (Clark and Belden) to watch Ariana, our director of marketing, as she gets made over on Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style on Bravo TV.  The show airs tonight at 9pm CST.

For those of you able to make it [...]

We just wanted to thank everyone who participated in last weekend’s Run for a Reason in NYC. We had about 25 runners join us in the 5 mile run through Central Park. Through your AWESOME efforts you all helped raise $13000 for 13 different charities and causes. Overall, it was a [...]

Matching gifts, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is when corporations, foundations, and wealthy individuals will “match” the donations of average donors, thus leveraging their resources to create the greatest impact. If you ever listen to NPR during a fundraising campaign, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

A matching donation does several things. First, it increases the total amount of money going to a worthy cause. Second, it affords the matching donors the opportunity to share the fact that they are giving with a broader audience. And finally, it helps create a connection between the individual donor and the matching organization, helping them feel united in an effort to make the world a better place.

Water is the gift of life. We hear that often - but ask anyone who has suffered months of drought and they will tell you, indeed, this truth is more powerful than we might ever imagine.

Every day we are bombarded with statistics about how many people in the world are experiencing certain hardships; twelve million are refugees, over a billion live below the poverty line and countless others are deprived of adequate health care. But without putting a face to the statistic, we often experience a sense of resignation in the face of such unsettling facts.