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13.12.2019 | University of Hawaii basketball coach Eran Ganot working tow... | ANDREW LEE / SPECIAL TO THE HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER
Hawaii’s head coach Eran Ganot.
Hawaii basketba... | staradvert... |
17.07.2019 | Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 snaps amazing photos ahea... | LightSail 2 may still have at least a few days to go before it begins its primary purpose, by unfurl... | techcrunch... |
02.01.2019 | Subaru Pledges $50,000 to Abisoye Ajayi’s “GirlsCoding” Init... | Japanese transportation conglomerate, Subaru Corporation is willing to fund Abisoye Ajayi’s Pearls A... | techgistaf... |
18.12.2018 | Hawaii basketball coach Eran Ganot leads cancer fight | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
University of Hawaii basketba... | staradvert... |
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 an... | technical.... |
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... | finsmes.co... |
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... | techcrunch... |
25.01.2018 | CrowdRise & GoFundMe Announce More Than $400,000 Was Rai... | Just a few days before the second annual Women’s March on Washington and Women’s Marches took place ... | crowdfundi... |
28.11.2017 | 7 #GivingTuesday campaigns backing Baltimore tech and innova... | Following Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, it’s Giving Tuesday. Plenty of Baltimore nonprof... | technical.... |
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 J... | staradvert... |
20.09.2017 | Mexico City | Mexico City is an amazing place. The Gotham Gal and I were there around this time last year.
The peo... | avc.com/20... |
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 fa... | tech.co/ne... |
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.... | citybizlis... |
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.... | archive.ci... |
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... | avc.com/20... |
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 Detroi... | avc.com/20... |
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... | avc.com/20... |
05.05.2017 | Funding Friday: #istandwithpp | UPDATE: This campaign has been fully funded. Thanks everyone who donated and shared on social media.... | avc.com/20... |
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... | avc.com/20... |
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... | avc.com/20... |
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 donatio... | avc.com/20... |
30.01.2017 | Actor Kal Penn Raises More Than $300,000 for Refugees Being ... | Attention all Twitter trolls: Don’t mess with Kal Penn.
After President Donald Trump signed an execu... | time.com/4... |
27.01.2017 | ‘We’re not going to stop until we have a space where we have... | The Baltimore Rock Opera Society is looking for a space of its own after a series of setbacks at loc... | technical.... |
11.01.2017 | The End Of Pay and Pray | For years philanthropic organizations have bought fundraising software from the likes of Blackbaud a... | avc.com/20... |
11.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 11 | DOLLARS AND DEALS
Everything besides this news and Donald Trump’s scheduled press conference seems b... | fortune.co... |
10.01.2017 | GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to go deeper into the charitable... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
10.01.2017 | GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to go deeper into the charitable... | GoFundMe on Tuesday announced the acquisition of CrowdRise, which will see the social fundraising pl... | venturebea... |
10.01.2017 | GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to expand to fundraising for cha... | GoFundMe has made a name for itself as a go-to platform for individuals looking to raise money for g... | techcrunch... |
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 ... | avc.com/20... |
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 m... | avc.com/20... |
13.06.2016 | The Pulse Nightclub Shooting | Like everyone, I was horrified to read about what happened in the Pulse nightclub on Saturday night.... | avc.com/20... |
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 Medici... | avc.com/20... |
24.03.2016 | Path Forward | Our portfolio company Return Path built a “returnship” program a few years ago to help stay at home ... | avc.com/20... |
02.12.2015 | Giving Back | Yesterday was Giving Tuesday. I hope everyone participated. I backed my friends Bijan and Lauren’s C... | avc.com/20... |
17.09.2015 | Computer Science For All | Yesterday Mayor de Blasio announced Computer Science For All which is a ten year effort to train 4,7... | avc.com/20... |
02.07.2015 | Sexism and startups: 3 founders from first-ever Women Startu... | It was Ladies’ Night on Tuesday — but not the kind that involves little black dresses or discounted ... | technical.... |
29.06.2015 | Microsoft celebrates USA veterans with 'Old Glory Relay' spo... | The Fourth of July is almost here. You know what that means, right? USA Independence Day! Yes, on th... | betanews.c... |
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 o... | technical.... |
02.06.2015 | Women-led startups raise $366K in Women Who Tech startup cha... | Last month, the D.C.-based Women Who Tech teamed up with Craigslist’s Craig Newark to launch its fir... | technical.... |
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. ... | avc.com/20... |
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 mean... | avc.com/20... |
26.04.2015 | Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Dies In Everest Avalanche Af... | Dan Fredinburg, a respected Google executive who headed privacy for Google X and led its product man... | techcrunch... |
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 t... | avc.com/20... |
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 mos... | avc.com/20... |
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 the... | techcrunch... |
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 driv... | avc.com/20... |
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 a... | avc.com/20... |
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 ... | solarbuild... |
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... | avc.com/20... |
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... | medcitynew... |
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 sweepi... | avc.com/20... |
20.08.2014 | Fifty Three | Another year, another birthday.
For the past fifteen years, I’ve been spending my birthday on the be... | avc.com/20... |
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, Moose... | xconomy.co... |
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 ver... | xconomy.co... |
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 ... | avc.com/20... |
23.06.2014 | Bitcoin and Charities Were Made For Each Other, They Just Do... | On the evening of July 14th at 6:30pm, I am going to give a talk on the subject of Bitcoin and phila... | avc.com/20... |
23.04.2014 | CrowdRise, Ed Norton's Charitable Social Network, Raises $23... | April 23, 2014 2 min read
While his films have gone on to garner millions at the box office, Fight C... | entreprene... |
22.04.2014 | CrowdRise | Yesterday the news broke about our most recent investment, CrowdRise. I wrote a bit about it yesterd... | avc.com/20... |
22.04.2014 | CrowdRise Closes $23M Financing | CrowdRise, a Los Angeles, CA-based online platform supporting crowdfunding projects for charitable c... | finsmes.co... |
21.04.2014 | CrowdRise | In November 2010 my friend Shana Fisher sent me an email suggesting I meet Edward Norton about his c... | usv.com/wr... |
21.04.2014 | Fred Wilson Leads $23M Funding In CrowdRise, A ‘Charity Wate... | How do charities and non-profits raise enough money for their causes? Well, the normal route, that w... | techcrunch... |
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 w... | tech.co/ne... |
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 ever... | avc.com/20... |
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... | vator.tv/n... |
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 ... | avc.com/20... |
22.11.2012 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) now supports nonprofit fundraising, with ... | Online group-funding campaign platform, Crowdtilt, has an update to its service. It has become certi... | blog.ycomb... |
21.11.2012 | Group-Funding Platform Crowdtilt Opens To Non-Profits, Now O... | Since we first covered its launch back in February, Crowdtilt has been on a mission to become the ea... | techcrunch... |
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
Crowdf... | vator.tv/n... |
16.12.2011 | Nerds Rule, Help TechCrunch Beat Maxim In A Turntable.fm Bat... | “I’m a nerd, and I’m here today to stand up for the rights of other nerds.” Right now, TechCrunch is... | techcrunch... |
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 ... | readwrite.... |
12.05.2010 | Celebrity-backed Crowdrise joins crowded online fundraising ... | Actor Edward Norton, star of movies like Fight Club and The Italian Job, just launched a new funding... | venturebea... |
12.05.2010 | Celebrity-backed Crowdrise joins crowded online fundraising ... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
- | Researchers crowdfunding to help fund Ebola sample analysis | Researcher Erica Ollmann Saphire is getting sent Ebola samples faster than she can process them at h... | medcitynew... |
- | Subaru Pledges $50,000 to Abisoye Ajayi’s “GirlsCoding” Init... | Japanese transportation conglomerate, Subaru Corporation is willing to fund Abisoye Ajayi’s Pearls A... | techgistaf... |