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Technology Currently Under Development:

Virtual Advisory Board
We are currently building a virtual advisory board system that will use teleconferencing and web-conferencing. This platform will help non-profits attract the world’s best minds and empower them with the opportunity to support the organization regardless of their geographic location.

• Best Practices Knowledge Exchange
Our online knowledge exchange will allow NPOs to “plug into” an online community to learn best practices from consultants and senior organizations.

Multimedia Training Materials
We are creating training materials for charities on the subjects of Forming a Non-Profit, Operational Issues, Organizational Leadership, Financial Accountability, Legal Requirements, Program Delivery, Professional Development, Fund Development, Donor Cultivation, Board Governance, Branding, and Marketing. This will enable charities to educate staff and volunteers quickly and effectively with no expense to the organization.

Turn-Key Media Production
We recognize that a non-profit’s greatest assets are the experiences of it’s staff, donors, volunteers and the people they serve and assist. Our goal is to help organization's capture and convey their compelling story while exposing the needs they are serving. This will be the organization’s single most powerful tool for expanding their volunteer and donor support base.

Regional Chapter Meetings
As our organization grows, we plan to hold fun and informative meetings throughout the U.S. to bring local communities together to solve both local and international issues. These meetings will be celebrations of volunteerism and will bring like-minded people together for networking and collaboration.

Non-Profit Rating System
One of the main reasons people don’t give is that they don’t trust that a non-profit organization will use their donations effectively. Donors want to know that the lion share of the money they are giving is actually reaching the people they are trying to reach. That is specifically why we are developing a system that will analyze each non-profit’s IRS filing and rate the organization in a fair and non-biased manner using critical metrics. By providing prospective donors and volunteers with an independent 3RD party evaluation of an organization’s fiscal efficiency, we hope to rebuild donor trust and create a culture of performance based philanthropy.



Greatest Global Giver Award

Giving Globally plans to conduct research on the world’s greatest givers. We will analyze the giving profiles of individual companies, business owners, executives, athletes and celebrities to determine the most generous people in 7 different categories.

Upon completion of the project, we will award the Greatest Global Giver awards to the top givers. We will also award top charities each year with cash awards for the winners designed to further their cause's mission. We will publicize the top 100 list along with stories of how these people are impacting the world.

We will also create annual reports on the most socially important issues (extreme poverty, AIDS, child sex and labor exploitation, environmental concerns, etc.) We will then launch a global public awareness campaign using celebrity and major media to focus on these concerns bringing global attention to the issues and eradicating the problems.

POWER OF PHILANTHROPY LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
In coordination with the Greatest Giver Awards, we will launch our annual philanthropy leadership summit January 8, 2006 bringing global business leaders together with great charities to collaborate and strategize on important social issues. We will also bring in top experts and consultants in non-profit sector to teach, train and mentor charities in donor relationships and technology utilization.

GLOBAL UNITY FLOATING PHILANTHROPY SHIP
By January 8, 2008, we plan to launch a floating philanthropy ship named “Global Unity”. Global Unity will be a 300+ capacity ocean liner that operates as the Mother Ship for philanthropy, providing unified charity assistance and transporting volunteers to causes around the world. We will coordinate overseas mission trips with charity partners and volunteers and incorporate celebrities to highlight and publicize their favorite cause. We plan to include a video testimonial room where volunteers and celebrities can share their stories with the world. We plan to capture and record the transformational experience of helping someone in desperate need. We also plan to research the feasibility of creating a reality TV show that features new social needs each week. This will enable us to inspire and challenge the viewers to get involved and become a member of Giving Globally.