Shop Online, Earn Money for Your Cause

April 6, 2009

Givvy has just relaunched after a few months of re-development work by our crack development team.  

Say hello to the Givvy Mall!

Givvy Mall

The new Givvy Mall (http://shop.givvy.com) allows you to shop at over 500 of the leading online merchants and earn money for your charities.  We still have all 1.4 million charities in our database, and you can still donate online.

What’s New?

What’s Changed?

We really took a hard look at what people were using and decided to strip the site down to some basics.  We’ll add some of the old features back at some point, but for now we have eliminated portfolios, member funds and our own concept of friends & profiles.  Friends and profiles in the future will just be Facebook and other networks.  That’s coming very soon.

Portfolios and member funds may be a bit murkier.  These were just not getting used by most people.  In the future, we do expect people to be able to want some way to create collections of charities to support.  But for now we’ve taken them out.

Givvy@Work

We are still offering Givvy@Work, but not for free.  We took down the link to create your Givvy@Work network as we are doing some development on this feature.   Companies who want to offer employee fundraising campaigns can contact us for more information.  

Stay tuned for more on our plans for Givvy over the coming weeks!

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Posted by slipkin

Join Us at WebInno Tonight

September 15, 2008

Givvy is one of the three “Main Dish” presenters at tonight’s WebInnovators Group organized by Venrock VC David Beisel.  The event kicks off at 6:30 tonight at the Royal Sonesta Hotel across from the Cambridgeside Galleria (a good place to park).  Hope to see you there!

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Posted by John Treadway

Givvy at TechCrunch50 – Let’s Meet!

August 18, 2008
TechCrunch50 Logo

As per my previous post we had the opportunity to present Givvy to the folks at TechCrunch to get into the TechCrunch50 launch event. Unfortunately, out of the 1,000 submissions we made it to round 2 but did not get to be a finalist.

So… we have decided to take a table in the DemoPit for Tuesday Sept 9th and Seth and John will be at the event all three days (8th-10th).  If you will be there and want to meet, let me know.  I’m staying in S.F. the whole week and will be setting up meetings for Thursday and Friday (and early/late on M-W too).  If you think of people or companies I should hook-up with while there, let me know with a comment below or email to jtreadway@ …     thanks!

p.s. we are going to private beta on Wednesday and will launch fully at TC50

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Posted by John Treadway