Charity Registry Lets Donors Give on Behalf of Others
May 2, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
A charity website has developed a database of more than a million charities for people looking to give a donation on someone’s behalf, reports “PBS NewsHour.”
Kendall Webb, founder and executive director of JustGive.org, conceived the idea in the 1990s when she noticed just how few nonprofit companies used the Internet for philanthropic purposes.
JustGive.org allows users to look for nonprofits by categories or by zip code if they’d like to give to a certain region. The site has proven popular for wedding registries, and corporations can use the site to create “gift card” donations to distribute at conferences or to employees at bonus time.
