UniversalGiving

UniversalGiving™ (www.UniversalGiving.org) is an award-winning, web-based platform providing giving and volunteering opportunities in more than 70 countries. All of our projects are vetted through a Quality Model™ to ensure the most effective, trustworthy philanthropy possible. Unique to UniversalGiving, we take no cut on donations.

UniversalGiving has been profiled on CBS and featured in BusinessWeek.  We have also been mentioned on Oprah.com, NBC News, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Financial Times, CNNMoney.com, and The L.A. Times. UniversalGiving is a Webby Award Honoree, and a winner of the Jefferson Award.

 UniversalGiving Corporate (UGC) is a customized service that helps companies manage their global Corporate Social Responsibility Programs. UGC handles the strategy, operations, and NGO vetting to ensure the success of international giving and volunteer programs. In doing so, we help a company's bottom line by increasing corporate brand image, employee attraction/retention, and client attraction/retention. Sample clients include BEA and Cisco.

Pamela Hawley is founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, a social entrepreneurship nonprofit organization whose vision is to "create a world where giving and volunteering is a natural part of everyday life."

Ms. Hawley was a co-founder of VolunteerMatch, a nonprofit which has matched more than two million volunteers with nonprofits. She launched VolunteerMatch Corporate (VMC), a customized version for corporations and their employee volunteer programs. More than 20 Fortune 500 companies became clients under her management (Charles Schwab, Coca-Cola, Dell, Duke Energy, Gap, Levi's, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nike and Verizon) which contributed to 43% of the organization's sustainability.

Ms. Hawley's community service began at the age of 12, and has extended into the international realm. She has worked and volunteered in microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the El Salvador earthquake; digital divide training in the Killing Fields of Cambodia; and sustainable farming in the countryside of Guatemala. Her studies include a political science degree cum laude at Duke University and scholarship in international/communications masters at The Annenberg School of Communications, USC. She is now a guest lecturer at USC School of Business and has spoken at Business for Social Responsibility, Ethical Corporation, Forbes' Conference for Women and UCLA and Stanford Business Schools on numerous topics including Corporate Social Responsibility; International Strategy and Expansion; Global Philanthropy and Volunteerism; Social Entrepreneurship; and the Web. Ms. Hawley also loves improv, dancing and her two nephews and niece.

UniversalGiving wants 100% of your donation going to the people who deserve it.So to generate revenue, UniversalGiving has a service for Fortune 500 companies, helping them manage their global corporate social responsibility programs.

UniversalGiving works with clients such as Cisco (CSCO), helping them expand their international giving and volunteering programs all over the world. UniversalGiving helps to increase corporate brand image, employee attraction/retention and client attraction/retention, and establish local buy-in, all of which helps a company's bottom line while also serving the community.

UniversalGiving helps organizations with their bottom line by creating a more positive image based on genuine, long-term relationships with nonprofits. Their employees feel good about their companies' involvement in strategic partnerships, gift matching, grants, volunteer events. This helps with employee retention and even client adoption. UniversalGiving helps them with their CSR strategy, their operations, the vetting of nonprofits, client service questions with employees, and most essential, setting up CSR operations in each city, which can be scaled to other cities.

 UniversalGiving brings together the elements that provide trust, which is imperative in giving. First, UniversalGiving does not take a cut on the donations that pass through the site; 100% of a person's donation goes to the project of his or her choice.

Second, UniversalGiving vets all of its projects through a 20-stage trademarked Quality Model. UniversalGiving views vetting as a venture capitalist would looking at the NGO's business model, finances and developing personal relationships with the management teams.

And finally, UniversalGiving is a nonprofit to provide a pure motive and transparency.