Give Forward

We are proud to announce our new ‘Cause of the Quarter’ is dedicated to fighting childhood cancer.  As the leading cause of death by disease in those under the age of 15, Pediatric Cancer is an area of medical research that needs to work harder than most to find cures.
The recipient for our Cause of [...]

Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a scary time, but we’ve come to accept it more at a certain point in our lives.  But what about being a twenty or thirty something who receives the unnerving diagnosis of cancer?  Being so young with such a serious condition can be an isolating time.  With her book  Everything Changes: [...]

President and co-founder Desiree Vargas was recently interviewed on GoodNewsBroadcast discussing GiveForward.  GoodNewsBroadcast strives to highlight people who have a “positive, constructive, impact on society” and we’re proud to fall into that category!  Further, they pride themselves on offering unedited, unbiased reporting. 
Click on the video below to hear all about why and how Desiree started GiveForward.  (I [...]

Barbara Talisman, President of Talisman Associates, Inc., a consulting firm for nonprofits, highlights GiveForward’s recent million dollar mark achievement on her blog.  Barbara has vast experience in fundraising from teaching workshops to giving speeches and publishing articles.  Her articles have been featured in Fundraising Success, Fundraising Institute, and Advancing Philanthropy.  Here is an excerpt from [...]

When someone is first diagnosed with cancer one of the most common questions they ask is “how am I going to pay for treatment?” says Jeannie Moore, Patient Support Manager at the Colon Cancer Alliance. While most non-profit cancer organizations are not in a position to directly provide funds for each patient, they can now [...]

GiveForward is excited to be participating in midVentures25 competition– an event that brings together 25 tech start-ups, all competing for the chance to win valuable prizes.  We will be among the “best investor-ready early-stage start-ups” Chicago has to offer.  Win or lose, the event is a great opportunity for GiveForward and the other start-ups to pitch [...]

Dear GiveForward Users, Fans, and Friends,
Today GiveForward hit $1million in donations when Ariela A. donated to Team Nicole’s fundraiser.
Words cannot describe how happy we are to have gotten to this point.  In a little over a year and a half, GiveForward has helped people raise $1million for lifesaving things like chemotherapy and organ transplants.  We’ve [...]

Last week, Christopher Buck from Om Times asked me to tell him the full story of how GiveForward got started.  Read the story here in the section called “Lighthouse Calling.”

In the world of online tools for people battling illness, nothing quite compares to those sites that help build a community around someone who is sick.  The two most popular patient websites are CaringBridge and CarePages, both of which provide free patient blog sites so friends and family can keep up on the progress of [...]

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While GiveForward may be one of the few sites focused on helping people raise money for medical expenses, the reality is that people have been raising money like this for years.
We’ve all seen change boxes at convenience stores collecting money for a child’s surgery or driven by a church hosting a spaghetti [...]