Universalgiving

Public serviceuniversalgiving helps organizations all around the world access resources by connecting donors and volunteers to vetted ngos and their projects in an efficient and transparent manner. Universalgivings website (www.universalgiving.org) provides a free public service since 2002, where users can select among hundreds of volunteer and donation opportunities to help people in need, such as teaching computer literacy in ghana, or making a $50 donation to provide fresh fruit to orphans in nepal.universalgiving does not take a cut: 100% of every donation made to our partner ngos goes directly to the cause. (continued on schedule o)

Major partnershipsuniversalgiving partners with organizations in support of universalgivings mission to increase giving and volunteering by promoting our vetted ngo partners and their projects. We are expanding the reach of our ngo partners and their deserving causes by building relationships with individual philanthropists, corporations, foundations, and universities that share our goal of helping people around the world. Some major partnerships include top tech companies that support us with pro bono resources. Universalgiving is an organization strongly committed to innovative technology. Universalgiving is one of the top tech for good ngos. New tech partnerships contributing probono services include atlassian, github, jira. (continued on schedule o)

Public service (continued from form 990 page 2)universalgiving was featured in more than 20 books, including the new edition harvard review book,hbr guide to delivering effective feedback, arianna huffingtons thrive, and stanford professor laura arrillaga-andreessens giving 2.0.our founder and ceo speaks at many events to help people get involved in giving their money and time. One of the most important ones this year was legacy builders, where she spoke alongside of steve young, former 49ers quarterback, about giving back. She shared how people of means can give back to quality nonprofits all over the world. She demonstrated the quality model and the importance of vetting and universalgivings unique proprietary vetting service. Legacy builders is a series of family office gatherings and events hosted by alan olsen, managing partner of the groco family office and cpa firm. Guy kawasaki, who has 2 million followers on social media, is the creator of guy kawasakis remarkable people podcast interviews with thought leaders, legends, and iconoclasts sharing how they've overcome the extraordinary challenges they've faced in life. Kawasaki, who is a venture capitalist, interviewed our founder and ceo of universalgiving on the remarkable people podcast. Hawley inspired entrepreneurs and leaders worldwide about how to be a great start-up entrepreneur, generating thousands of views, 5 more interviews and 100+ email inquiries. The founder and ceo of twenty years has been increasingly featured on podcasts, youtube, x, instagram. For example, the mission matters podcast featured universalgiving and our founder and ceo, pamela hawley, on entrepreneurship universalgiving supports small, top-performing ngos in crisis-stricken countries. These ngos significantly impact their communities but are themselves largely unknown. We have more than 200 published organization opportunities on the site and thousands accessible in our database, depending on the crisis or donor request. Our ngo partners work in over 160 countries and territories in the areas of health, education, technology, war prevention, animal rights, poverty alleviation, community and economic development, environmental protection, disaster relief, and more. Universalgiving vets each nonprofit ngo on its website with its quality model, a rigorous 24 stage process. We ensure that our users can give and volunteer with a trusted, quality organization. Universalgiving serves numerous diverse donors and volunteers of all ages, backgrounds, and economic statuses. In sum, we have vetted nearly 22000 ngos for individuals, donors, corporations, corporate employees, employee volunteers, and foundations. As one small example and under high pressure, for one client alone universalgiving facilitated vetting of ngos for nearly $5.1 million in u.s. Dollars; $1.8m australian dollars in small, micro-donations, which we disbursed with thousands of rapid microgrants all over the world. Much of these donations are from small donations of $5-$100. Universalgiving makes giving accessible to people of all ages and incomes. Universalgiving also has a crisis relief fund for donating to crisis events across the globe. Our crisis relief fund is a valuable resource for those wanting to give to local, vetted ngos and small local businesses in times of crisis. Testimonials of our ngo partners include an executive director at american friends of kenya, inc. American friends of kenya has been fortunate to get wonderful volunteers from all over kenya and the world through our connection with universalgiving. To date, we have had nurses, teachers, it specialists, social workers, environmentalists, and even carpenters and electricians who have contacted us as a result of seeing our postings on universalgiving. Now, as kenya tries to recover from the horrible events following the national elections, we will need our volunteers more than ever. Thank you, universalgiving.-emely silver universalgiving corporate pioneered the first quality model of vetting stages, used both domestically and worldwide. The quality model was founded by our founder and ceo, pamela hawley in 2001, with decades of experience in csr and innovation. Our ceo saw the need to verify ngos, providing trusted, quality giving. The quality model is trademarked, unique, and continues to advance from 6 stages to 24. An example of this innovation is our workplace misconduct vetting stage, in response to the me too movement. Universalgiving continues to innovate in staying on top of world trends and protecting our clients.universalgiving has now facilitated a new vetting service, deep dives. These are 6-month deep investigative reports on an ngo. A deep dive provides in-depth vetting services. These are 20-100 page reports on an ngo, utilizing updated vetting detailed vetting techniques and proprietary tools to find long-term history as well as current date information. We provide these deep dives for foundations, individuals, high networth donors, helping protect them from fraud, terrorism. Universalgiving s mission keeps expanding to help people engage with quality philanthropy. Universalgiving also facilitates private strategic vetting services for high networth donors, dafs, foundations, high net worth individuals, and ultra high networth individuals, through part of our philanthropic services. This is a new service adding more dimension to universalgivings philanthropy and increasing our reach to more individuals in another market sector. Universalgiving philanthropic services broaden universalgivings mission, expansion of services, and awareness of quality, vetted philanthropy. As part of universalgivings public service, we also have a donate/tip feature on our website that allows visitors to give a tip. The tip ranges from $15-$500. The tip supports universalgiving with our free service, which helps people give and volunteer all over the world. Critical to our mission is our volunteering service. We help people volunteer in more than 160 countries. We have empowered more than 23,400 volunteers to help with projects for communities in need all over the world. The independent sector values the volunteer hour at $20.00 per hour and a trip is on average two weeks. We have facilitated more than 32 million worth of volunteer hours over our existence. This is an extremely conservative estimate since many of our volunteers volunteer for months or even years at a time. Testimonials of our volunteer services include michelle laufer, pediatrician and a mom, it is important to me that my kids experience the joy and gifts that come from service to others. I turned without hesitation to universalgiving when it came time to find a volunteer opportunity for our family. I knew the opportunities were vetted and as safe as possible and that the organization is responsible with funds. Our experience with the universalgiving site and all the way through our service in costa rica was exceptional. Time spent with my teenager working in a rural health clinic and with our host family was rejuvenating for our relationship and an all-around blessing. I highly recommend universalgiving for families looking to serve with their children and plan to turn to the site again myself in the future.universalgiving continues to increase our support to i no ngos all over the world. Many of these ngos are ones that people do not know of, and, the ngo has no way to get the word out about them. Universalgiving wants to feature these hardworking ngos. Universalgiving has supported 500+ ngos by facilitating donations and volunteers for them. These ngos include teach for taiwan, trailblazer foundation, soup and socks e.v., association for humanitarian development, help foundation kurnool, and globe aware. Teach for taiwan supports teachers in under-resourced rural taiwan by providing financial assistance to expand students' learning beyond the classroom. Trailblazer foundation helps provide school uniforms to rural cambodian students, taking the burden off their families. Soup and socks e.v. In greece works to provide ??free access to materials, tools, and expert guidance provided by a diverse team which includes international visitors, locals, and people on the move. Association for humanitarian development. Worked for disadvantaged groups and people affected by human and natural disasters in pakistan and in africa kenya, uganda, and mozambique. Help foundation kurnool helps educate a girl child, feeds the homeless, distributes blankets for the poor, homeless & leprosy people, and nutritious diet support for leprosy people. Globe aware promotes deeper understanding and appreciation of a foreign land and culture through humanitarian service, language and intercultural training, and exploration.universalgivings goal is to support millions of ngos all over the world with a focus on the least well-known ngos. We are helping them attain increased awareness, more funders, volunteers, and support. Many o

Major partnerships (continued from form 990 page 2)top tech partnerships for 10+ years include google that provides us $830,000 worth of google grants and google analytics pro bono; salesforce that provides us $570,000 worth of salesforce user access pro bono; microsoft that provides us $150,000 worth of microsoft 365 services pro bono; slack that provides us $220,000 worth in slack management technology services pro bono; okta that provides us $80,000 worth of okta for good technology services pro bono; docusign that provides $8,000 worth of digital signature technology services pro bono. Alteryx that provides us $120,000 worth of technology services pro bono; dropbox that provides us $120,000 worth dropbox business cloud services pro bono; box.com that provides us $25,000 worth box business cloud services pro bono; buffer that provides us $5000 worth of social media management services pro bono. New partnership as of 2024 includes canva that provides us $27,600 worth of canva teams services pro bono.other partnerships include wilson sonsini goodrich & rosati that provides all legal services pro bono, more than $3 million in services. For more than 10 years we have university collaborations with duke university, stanford, harvard, tulane, uc berkeley, uc davis, hult business school that provide links to our volunteer opportunities, our website, and our internship and returnship opportunities. We also work with organizations, helping them promote and facilitate giving through public speaking events. Our founder and ceo, pamela hawley, speaks on social responsibility at many events and venues, including next legacy, legacy builders, stanford, and duke university, where she discussed social entrepreneurship, quality philanthropy, and universalgivings mission. Other partnerships include harvard women in business, stanford women in business, pepperdine business school, usc marshall school of business, hult business school, stanford leaders series, socap, women 2.0 and schwab philanthropic services. All of these partnerships are bringing new donors and volunteers to hundreds of our ngo partners.universalgiving newsletter exceeded expectations in 2024. An unprecedented level in our history: we more than doubled our newsletter subscribers. These are all people who use universalgiving as an expert in giving and volunteering worldwide. Universalgiving has a newsletter that goes to 100,000 verified contacts in more than 24 countries. These contacts have been increased by more than 50% this year. We have cultivated a community, thousands of ngos, venture capitalists in silicon valley; vps in corporate social responsibility; billionaires and millionaires who are potential donors to universalgiving; silicon valley tech companies; and family offices worldwide. Newsletter content is devoted to crises, syria, ukraine, youth support, global causes and features our ngo partners and their initiatives. The ceo also has a daily blog called living and giving (https://livingandgiving.io/). Living and givings mission is to inspire leaders to live with excellence and love. Often in this blog, she also promotes the ngo partners on universalgivings website. She writes about the cause she is bringing light to, and then features the ngo on universalgiving, to increase giving. A new website and feature is pamelahawley.com, featuring the ceos work to spread the word about global issues, volunteerism, and csr, and speaking engagements.

Corporate giving and volunteering (continued from form 990 page 2)no other foundation or donor-advised fund would take on the project, and we found a local ngo to achieve the companys vision. We help our ngos by presenting them to companies for their corporate social responsibility programs. This increases awareness about these ngos, helps them with funding, and helps them with more corporate volunteers. The same holds true in our work with universities, foundations, and donors. By ensuring these entities giving and volunteer is effective, we are further broadening universalgivings mission to connect people with quality giving and volunteering opportunities worldwide. Thank you for supporting our vision to create a world where giving and volunteering are a natural part of everyday life.

Social mediauniversalgiving is also active on social media. We found that social media creates bridges for us to engage with people and organizations that would like to help. We are using social media platforms such as instagram, facebook, linkedin, pinterest, and x. Our social media results reflect that our linkedin posts have gone viral, reaching over 2,300 impressions and nearly 2,000 members. We plan on continuing our social media presence to increase awareness about our ngo partners and global issues. Our living and giving (https://livingandgiving.io) inspirational blog is also gaining traction: we have increased the number of views by 124.8%.