A hearty thanks is owed to all the U.S. Congressional and Senate campaigns that used giv.to to help them stay in touch with their activists, supporters and volunteers (and of course, to  inspire new ones to donate or get involved). We’re happy that we were able to be part of helping campaigns engage a broad [...]

Proud to report that Giv.to was the subject of a recent article in The Washington Post! From the article… When Michael Mayernick and Adam Bonnifield launched Giv.to in June 2009, the for-profit venture offered political and advocacy groups technology to shorten URLs that also tracked which Twitter and Facebook links led to donations. Now just [...]

Fascinating news out of Las Vegas about a “Copyright Troll” company named Righthaven that buys up major newspapers’ copyrights and then sues all the infringers. The big targets: causes and political campaigns. Righthaven is accusing Republican US Senate candidate Sharron Angle for reprinting two (2) Review-Journal™®℠ articles on her campaign website; Righthaven states they’re entitled [...]

A couple weeks ago Founders Institute entrepreneurs took a break from running companies such as CouplesSpark.com, BittyGames.com, Hegati, and Itch to meet at Panera and run a Startup Boot Camp in support of Giv.to.

Here’s some corporate development news we wanted to share: Giv.to is halfway through the process of being certified as a B Corporation. B Corps are “new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.” The premise is this: Unlike non-profits, B Corps value market-based principles to grow their [...]