We ensure that donors and volunteers find the right opportunity, in the right country, right now. We build a trusted global network of donors, volunteers, nonprofits, corporations, and foundations.

UniversalGiving is a social entrepreneurship nonprofit which matches donors and volunteers with quality, international nonprofits.

UniversalGiving's first service is a web-based marketplace promoting NGOs'(nongovernmental organizations) international work through a customized, searchable website. Donors and volunteers access the UniversalGiving website (www.UniversalGiving.org) and search for U.S. BASED ORGANIZATIONS, NGOs, projects and volunteer opportunities according to their specific interests and a geographic area. UniversalGiving provides the only service with a Quality Affiliation Model allowing donors and volunteers to find trusted organizations who are affiliated with critical international interest groups and experts. No other organization offers this Multiple Vetting Process.

UniversalGiving provides a customized service for corporations and their community involvement programs, which provides sustainability as nonprofit organization. Corporations use UniversalGiving to manage their international volunteering and giving programs. UniversalGiving's model also PROVIDES CUSTOMIZED MODELS FOR high net-worth donors and investments banks.

Pamela Hawley, Founder and President
Pamela Hawley is founder and president of UniversalGiving, a social entrepreneurship nonprofit organization whose mission is to match donors and volunteers with quality, international organizations (www.UniversalGiving.org). Ms. Hawley was a co-founder of VolunteerMatch in 1996, a nonprofit which has matched more than one million volunteers with nonprofits through its web-based marketplace. She launched VolunteerMatch in 30 different metros and rural areas working with more than 1,000 nonprofits including 4-H, Boys and Girls Club, CASA, Habitat for Humanity, Lions Club, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Second Harvest, United Way and YMCA/YWCA.

In 1999 she launched VolunteerMatch Corporate (VMC), a customized version of the website for corporations and their employee volunteer programs. More than 20 Fortune 500 companies became clients of the service under her management, which generated more than $ 1 million and contributed to 43% of the organization's sustainability. Companies include Baxter, Charles Schwab, Coca-Cola, Dell, Duke Energy, Gap, Levi's, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nike and Verizon.

Her international experience includes work and volunteering abroad in the areas of microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the 2000 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 Stanford Business School on numerous topics including Corporate Social Responsibility; International Strategy and Expansion; Philanthropy and Volunteerism; Management, Communications and Sales; Social Entrepreneurship; and the Web.

Wall Street Journal Article in First Year of Operation
UniversalGiving case studies at USC, Duke and Stanford Business Schools

Harvard Business School's Governing for Nonprofit Excellence Program

Pamela Hawley, Founder and President
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