| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.12.2019 | University of Hawaii basketball coach Eran Ganot working toward return | ANDREW LEE / SPECIAL TO THE HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER
Hawaii’s head coach Eran Ganot.
Hawaii basketball coach Eran Ganot vowed to be “back soon” directing the Rainbow Warriors.
“That’s great for me to hear and say,” said Ganot, who has been ... |
| 17.07.2019 | Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 snaps amazing photos ahead of solar sail deployment | LightSail 2 may still have at least a few days to go before it begins its primary purpose, by unfurling the solar sail it has on board and finding out more about propelling a spacecraft using only the force of photons, but it’s not wasting ... |
| 02.01.2019 | Subaru Pledges $50,000 to Abisoye Ajayi’s “GirlsCoding” Initiative | Japanese transportation conglomerate, Subaru Corporation is willing to fund Abisoye Ajayi’s Pearls Africa Foundation with $50,000 to teach more disadvantaged girls how to code. But there is a clause to the fund, that is — ‘voluntary individ... |
| 18.12.2018 | Hawaii basketball coach Eran Ganot leads cancer fight | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
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| 27.11.2018 | 8 ways Baltimore tech is getting involved in #GivingTuesday | Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are in the books, it’s Giving Tuesday.
The day of donating and benevolence happens around the world. For those looking to give back locally, here are a handful of campaigns from within the Baltimore te... |
| 20.08.2018 | Top 10 Fintech Companies That Are Changing Charitable Giving | From faster payments to increased transaction security, Fintech companies have made a huge impact on financial services as a whole, redefining standards and expectations. However, these are not the only areas disrupted by Fintech. Charitabl... |
| 01.03.2018 | GoFundMe relaunches nonprofit fundraising site CrowdRise | After acquiring CrowdRise over a year ago to double down on fundraising for non-profits, GoFundMe is today taking the wraps off a new product that will supercharge the service.
CrowdRise by GoFundMe is a new version of the site that signifi... |
| 25.01.2018 | CrowdRise & GoFundMe Announce More Than $400,000 Was Raised on Both Platforms for the Women’s March 2018 | Just a few days before the second annual Women’s March on Washington and Women’s Marches took place around the globe, GoFundMe and CrowdRise announced that more than $400,000 was raised on their crowdfunding platforms for the historical cau... |
| 28.11.2017 | 7 #GivingTuesday campaigns backing Baltimore tech and innovation | Following Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, it’s Giving Tuesday. Plenty of Baltimore nonprofits have campaigns, and some strategies for raising money to make dollars go further. Here’s a look at seven that emerged within the tech an... |
| 22.09.2017 | Mendes donates $100k to Mexican quake relief | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canadian singer Shawn Mendes performs at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 16. Mendes is launching an online fundraiser to help those affected by the Sept. 19 earthquake in Mexico.
Shawn Men... |
| 20.09.2017 | Mexico City | Mexico City is an amazing place. The Gotham Gal and I were there around this time last year.
The people, the culture, the energy are all great in Mexico City. It feels like a place on the move where good things are happening.
So I was upset... |
| 31.08.2017 | How Coworking Spaces Are Aiding Victims of Hurricane Harvey | Hurricane Harvey is much worse than we ever could've imagined. With near three times as much rain falling on Houston than did on New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, millions have been left stranded and homeless without a place to live. Or... |
| 28.06.2017 | Boston Marathon Fundraising Raises $34.2 Million | Boston Marathon participants who ran on behalf of more than 200 non-profit organizations raised $34.2 million for charity in the 121st year of the historic race. The fundraising total represents a twelve percent increase, or $3.6 million, o... |
| 28.06.2017 | Boston Marathon Fundraising Raises $34.2 Million | Boston Marathon participants who ran on behalf of more than 200 non-profit organizations raised $34.2 million for charity in the 121st year of the historic race. The fundraising total represents a twelve percent increase, or $3.6 million, o... |
| 11.06.2017 | Monthly Match Wrap-Up | I woke up Sunday morning in Europe to the news that our monthly match campaign for The Human Utility had crossed the $20k mark and thus our $20k match was fully funded. That was great news but then I saw this tweet from Tiffani, the founder... |
| 10.06.2017 | Video Of The Week: Detroit Water Project/The Human Utility | We are in the midst of a monthly match campaign for The Human Utility which used to be called Detroit Water Project.
The founder of this effort, Tiffani Bell, explains the story of how this project came to be in this eight minute video;
If ... |
| 09.06.2017 | Funding Friday: The Human Utility Monthly Match | And we are back with this month’s matching campaign to support a good cause.
We are moving away from the big well known causes to some lesser known but important efforts to help people who need our help.
We are going to start with helping p... |
| 05.05.2017 | Funding Friday: #istandwithpp | UPDATE: This campaign has been fully funded. Thanks everyone who donated and shared on social media.
Our monthly match campaign for Planned Parenthood, which we launched yesterday late morning has raised half of its target as of this mornin... |
| 04.05.2017 | Monthly Match: Planned Parenthood | The House is planning to vote today on a bill that will repeal Obamacare.
Included in that bill is a provision that would prohibit Medicaid from paying for services from Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood is an organization dedicated to... |
| 01.04.2017 | EarthMatch | It’s time again for our monthly match, our once a month team match offer for a cause that is helping to protect the country and the world from the current administration.
It was hard to pick a cause this month because the administration has... |
| 24.02.2017 | The Monthly Match | Last month, when the Gotham Gal and I and our friends Brad and Amy combined to match $20k of donations to the ACLU and ended up raising $120k on a weekend that saw the ACLU raise over $25mm, we committed to do a match every month for all of... |
| 30.01.2017 | Actor Kal Penn Raises More Than $300,000 for Refugees Being Told 'You Don’t Belong Here' | Attention all Twitter trolls: Don’t mess with Kal Penn.
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order over the weekend that bans immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, a troll took to Twitter and targeted the Indian-Ameri... |
| 27.01.2017 | ‘We’re not going to stop until we have a space where we have control’: Baltimore Rock Opera Society | The Baltimore Rock Opera Society is looking for a space of its own after a series of setbacks at local arts spaces over the last month.
The group’s headquarters was among those shut down when city officials abruptly closed the Bell Foundry ... |
| 11.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 11 | DOLLARS AND DEALS
Everything besides this news and Donald Trump’s scheduled press conference seems beside the point this morning, so here’s some venture data and private equity macro predictions to distract you. (If the topic of Trump, his ... |
| 11.01.2017 | The End Of Pay and Pray | For years philanthropic organizations have bought fundraising software from the likes of Blackbaud and a host of other software companies, large and small, in the hope that these tools would help them raise money. The term I like for these ... |
| 10.01.2017 | GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to expand to fundraising for charities | GoFundMe has made a name for itself as a go-to platform for individuals looking to raise money for good causes — a business that has been a big success, raising $3 billion since 2010 from 25 million+ donors across over 2 million campaigns.
... |
| 10.01.2017 | GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to go deeper into the charitable giving space | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
GoFundMe on Tuesday announced the acquisition of ... |
| 10.01.2017 | GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to go deeper into the charitable giving space | GoFundMe on Tuesday announced the acquisition of CrowdRise, which will see the social fundraising platform extend to charities and nonprofits. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CrowdRise will remain fully operational and a... |
| 19.08.2016 | Funding Friday: Three Projects I Like | It’s funding friday. Time for some crowdfunding. Here are three projects I like:
American Red Cross fundraiser for Louisiana Flood Relief on Crowdrise
Greycork (low cost home furniture for millenials) convertible note on CircleUp
The New Yo... |
| 15.07.2016 | What Do You Do? What Do You Say? | It’s friday morning and we are waking up to yet another story of a twisted madman engaging in mass murder. We did this last friday.
What do you do? What do you say?
Yes, we should Pray For Nice. They can use our prayers.
And yes, we should ... |
| 13.06.2016 | The Pulse Nightclub Shooting | Like everyone, I was horrified to read about what happened in the Pulse nightclub on Saturday night.
The scourge that is at the heart of this awful event is hatred, hatred so deep that a person could walk into a nightclub and kill fifty peo... |
| 29.04.2016 | Funding Friday: Three Noteworthy Projects | It’s funding friday again. Here are three projects I thought you all should know about.
Black Medicine Iced Coffee – This is an equity raise on CircleUp for a new iced coffee brand. Not only does the product look great but you can get a $1.... |
| 24.03.2016 | Path Forward | Our portfolio company Return Path built a “returnship” program a few years ago to help stay at home moms and other men and women who have left the work force to take care of children, sick parents, etc figure out how to get back into the wo... |
| 02.12.2015 | Giving Back | Yesterday was Giving Tuesday. I hope everyone participated. I backed my friends Bijan and Lauren’s Crowdrise campaign for Charity Water. They made it easy for me. Technology makes it easier to give back.
I spent most of yesterday raising mo... |
| 17.09.2015 | Computer Science For All | Yesterday Mayor de Blasio announced Computer Science For All which is a ten year effort to train 4,775 NYC public school teachers on the fundamentals of computer science and how to teach it to their students. The goal of Computer Science Fo... |
| 02.07.2015 | Sexism and startups: 3 founders from first-ever Women Startup Challenge weigh in | It was Ladies’ Night on Tuesday — but not the kind that involves little black dresses or discounted drinks.
Instead, men and women across the country tuned in to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team as they took on Germany, while members o... |
| 29.06.2015 | Microsoft celebrates USA veterans with 'Old Glory Relay' sponsorship | The Fourth of July is almost here. You know what that means, right? USA Independence Day! Yes, on this day, Americans will barbeque delicious meats and watch fireworks to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence and subseque... |
| 25.06.2015 | Cybrary spearheads IT training program for women refugees | Cybersecurity MOOC company Cybrary.IT announced Wednesday it is teaming up with Cornerstone, a new organization formed to provide computer literacy training to local refugees.
Starting in July, Cybrary will offer basic computer training and... |
| 02.06.2015 | Women-led startups raise $366K in Women Who Tech startup challenge | Last month, the D.C.-based Women Who Tech teamed up with Craigslist’s Craig Newark to launch its first pitch competition: the Women Startup Challenge.
To compete, startups were instructed to set up a fundraising profile on Crowdrise. In the... |
| 02.05.2015 | Video Of The Week: SEP Spring Showcase | The SEP (Software Engineering Pilot) Spring Showcase is today from 10am to 2pm at BRIC in Brooklyn. I’m still in Paris so will miss it but I encourage anyone in NYC to attend. Here’s a video from last year’s showcase so you can see what goe... |
| 27.04.2015 | Using CrowdRise To Help People In Nepal | When a disaster strikes, caring people all over the world seek ways they can help. Usually that means giving funds to a global relief organization like the Red Cross. But in the age of crowdfunding, giving to relief efforts takes on an enti... |
| 26.04.2015 | Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Dies In Everest Avalanche After Nepal Earthquake | Dan Fredinburg, a respected Google executive who headed privacy for Google X and led its product management team, has died in the avalanche on Mount Everest which was triggered by the huge earthquake in Nepal. The natural disaster has alrea... |
| 12.03.2015 | Get Fit Or Be Hacking | Technology often involves a lot of intense brain work behind a desk or computer. I’ve learned over the years how important it is to move your body to relieve it from all that stress and strain. And so it was interesting to me when my friend... |
| 22.02.2015 | Building Enterprise Networks Top Down | Most people that are in the VC and startup sector know that USV likes to invest in networks. And most of the networks we invest in are consumer facing networks of people. Peer to peer services, if you will. The list is long and full of bran... |
| 25.12.2014 | Bitcoin, Burning Man And The Gifting Economy | Bitcoin was a terrible investment this year, but that hasn’t stopped non-profits from asking for them anyway. Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Khan Academy and now even Burning Man will take those bitcoins off your hands in the fo... |
| 15.12.2014 | Holiday Giving | Every year at this time of the year, my office piles up with gifts that people send me. I don’t drive back and forth to work so it’s not easy for me to bring them home. So a big pile builds up and sometime in January or February, I get a bi... |
| 24.11.2014 | Orbital Boot Camp | One of the things I am most proud of is the alumni group at USV. It is an outstanding group of men and women who have gone on to do some awesome things. We don’t have a career trajectory at USV. We bring talented people in for a while, we l... |
| 21.10.2014 | 2014 Roof-Mount Project of the Year Winner: Solar for Seals | Pinnipeds — the all-encompassing classification for seals, sea lions and similar semiaquatic marine mammals — just want to swim and play and eat fish and live with other marine mammals in peace. But sometimes unfortunate things happen — the... |
| 14.10.2014 | Researchers crowdfunding to help fund Ebola sample analysis | The campaign, on the site Crowdrise, says Saphire is searching for more potential treatments for the deadly virus – “And there’s no time to wait,” it says:
Samples are being sent to her lab from around the world, but the number of samples o... |
| 14.10.2014 | A Great Job At CSNYC | As many of you know, CSNYC is a non-profit I helped start a few years ago along with some colleagues. We are attempting to bring computer science education to the 1.1 million children in the NYC Public School system.
The organization is sti... |
| 22.08.2014 | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Ice Buckets, and Generosity | In the midst of terrible news all over the place comes a wonderful hopeful heartwarming mania sweeping the nation.
Everyone is pouring ice buckets over their heads in a social viral fun outpouring of generosity to find a cure for a disease ... |
| 20.08.2014 | Fifty Three | Another year, another birthday.
For the past fifteen years, I’ve been spending my birthday on the beach with my family. That seems like the ideal way to do it. I hope that tradition lasts as long as I do.
The weather has been spectacular on... |
| 06.08.2014 | CrowdRise is On a Mission to Make Crowdfunding Fun and Easy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In 2009, the actor Ed Norton, Moosejaw founder Robert Wolfe, and a small team of their friends launched a fundraising campaign to raise money for the Maasai Wilderness Conserv... |
| 22.07.2014 | MoneyTree Reports $121M in MI Venture Deals Last Quarter | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Venture Capital investors had a very active second quarter of 2014, according to the latest MoneyTree report. VCs invested almost $13 billion in 1,114 U.S. startups during the... |
| 14.07.2014 | Bitcoin and Charities | Tonight, at 6:30pm at NYU’s Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, I am giving a talk on the topic of Bitcoin and Charities. If you want to come, the ticket is $25, paid in Bitcoin, and all ticket proceeds are going to CSNYC.
We are expecting about 3... |
| 23.06.2014 | Bitcoin and Charities Were Made For Each Other, They Just Don't Know It Yet | On the evening of July 14th at 6:30pm, I am going to give a talk on the subject of Bitcoin and philanthropic giving. It will take place at NYU’s Eisner and Lubin Auditorium and we are selling tickets to the event (in bitcoin of course) to r... |
| 23.04.2014 | CrowdRise, Ed Norton's Charitable Social Network, Raises $23 Million | April 23, 2014 2 min read
While his films have gone on to garner millions at the box office, Fight Club actor Edward Norton just scored a knockout punch of his own in the startup sphere.
CrowdRise, a website founded by Norton and three coll... |
| 22.04.2014 | CrowdRise Closes $23M Financing | CrowdRise, a Los Angeles, CA-based online platform supporting crowdfunding projects for charitable causes, closed a $23m financing.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Spark Capital, Index Ventures, RatPac, C... |
| 22.04.2014 | CrowdRise | Yesterday the news broke about our most recent investment, CrowdRise. I wrote a bit about it yesterday on usv.com. I thought I’d add some thoughts here as well.
Many of our best investments came to us over time. We did not invest the first ... |
| 21.04.2014 | Fred Wilson Leads $23M Funding In CrowdRise, A ‘Charity Water’ For Everyone | How do charities and non-profits raise enough money for their causes? Well, the normal route, that which needs to be “disrupted” if you will, means a lot of thousand dollar per-plate dinners, a lot of individual reaching out and maybe some ... |
| 21.04.2014 | CrowdRise | In November 2010 my friend Shana Fisher sent me an email suggesting I meet Edward Norton about his crowdfunding site for charities, called CrowdRise. I was pretty dismissive in my response to Shana. I told her that USV was “all in” on Kicks... |
| 11.02.2014 | 12 Sites to Help You Crowdfund Your Dreams | As the global financial crisis crashed the world’s economy, crowdfunding emerged as one of the new ways to fund projects. With the overwhelming popularity of social media, people started using public forums to crowdfund their projects. Crow... |
| 10.12.2013 | Hour of code | As part of CE Ed Week, encourage your child or a student to spend one hour coding
This is CS Ed Week and this year we are celebrating it with an Hour Of Code. The idea is to get every student to spend an hour this week writing code.
If you ... |
| 10.12.2013 | Hour Of Code | This is CS Ed Week and this year we are celebrating it with an Hour Of Code. The idea is to get every student to spend an hour this week writing code. If you want to do this with your kids (at home or in school), here are some resources to ... |
| 05.11.2013 | Crowdfunding Computer Science in the NYC Public Schools | Yesterday evening I got a three minute speaking slot at the NY Tech Meetup and announced the effort we are making to bring computer science to the NYC public school system. If you didn't read about it last week here at AVC, you can click on... |
| 22.11.2012 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) now supports nonprofit fundraising, with half the fees of competitors and immediate transfer | Online group-funding campaign platform, Crowdtilt, has an update to its service. It has become certified to legally secure fundraisers for any registered 501(c)(3) organizations. And on top of that, starting today, it can issue tax-deductib... |
| 21.11.2012 | Group-Funding Platform Crowdtilt Opens To Non-Profits, Now Offers Tax-Deductible Donations, Receipts | Since we first covered its launch back in February, Crowdtilt has been on a mission to become the easiest way for groups of people to collaborate around money, specifically fundraising, for any cause. In other words, Crowdtilt wants to beco... |
| 01.11.2012 | Invested.in gets $830K to white label crowdfunding | LA-based startup looks to be the builder of crowdfunding campaigns for brands, philanthropies
Crowdfunding is a hot market right now. Every other day it seems that a new crowdfunding portal appears. But when a company emerges that wants to ... |
| 16.12.2011 | Nerds Rule, Help TechCrunch Beat Maxim In A Turntable.fm Battle For Charity Now | “I’m a nerd, and I’m here today to stand up for the rights of other nerds.” Right now, TechCrunch is in a charity Turntable.fm DJ battle vs. Maxim magazine. Help me win it for the nerds, and the kids. Go to the MaxCrunch Turntable.fm room a... |
| 28.06.2010 | How To Participate in Crowdsourcing – Right Now | Perhaps you have some spare time on your hands, or perhaps you just want to do good for others from the comfort of your desk chair. Either way, a great way to fulfill these needs is to participate in crowdsourcing – community driven conglom... |
| 12.05.2010 | Celebrity-backed Crowdrise joins crowded online fundraising space | Actor Edward Norton, star of movies like Fight Club and The Italian Job, just launched a new funding website for charities called Crowdrise. The service targets non-profits and volunteers looking to create, promote, and raise money for a ch... |
| 12.05.2010 | Celebrity-backed Crowdrise joins crowded online fundraising space | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Actor Edward Norton, star of movies like Fight Cl... |
| - | Researchers crowdfunding to help fund Ebola sample analysis | Researcher Erica Ollmann Saphire is getting sent Ebola samples faster than she can process them at her Scripps Research Institute lab, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, so she’s turned to crowdfunding to raise the $100,000 she needs to b... |
| - | Лучшие примеры социально ориентированных онлайн-площадок, использующих принципы краудфандинга | Не так давно на странице Стартап Афиши в Facebook мы с вами обсуждали тему, микрофинансирования стартапов, почему данная модель не идет в России, и рассматривали пример KickStarter. Обсуждение было настолько оживлённым, что мы решили систем... |
| - | Camp seeks donations to continue helping kids with cancer | COURTESY B.K. CANNON
Camp Anuenue was established in 1985 by the American Cancer Society.
A local camp for children who have cancer is seeking donations, with a goal of $50,000.
Camp Anuenue is a free, weeklong camp for children in Hawaii w... |
| - | Subaru Pledges $50,000 to Abisoye Ajayi’s “GirlsCoding” Initiative | Japanese transportation conglomerate, Subaru Corporation is willing to fund Abisoye Ajayi’s Pearls Africa Foundation with $50,000 to teach more disadvantaged girls how to code. But there is a clause to the fund, that is — ‘voluntary individ... |
