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In April 2024, the Big Give Green Match Fund raised £6.3 million after a week-long fundraising drive. The campaign saw 247 environmental charities take part, including Rewilding Britain, Friends of the Earth, The Wildlife Trusts, and Surfers Against Sewage. Big Give's match funding champions contributed £3.3 million.
In philanthropic giving, foundations and corporations often give money to non-profit entities in the form of a matching gift. [2] Corporate matches often take the form of employee matching gifts, which means that if an employee donates to a nonprofit, the employee's corporation will donate money to the same nonprofit according to a predetermined match ratio (usually 1:1).
The Big Give has raised over £346m for thousands of charity projects, including over £3.67m for the Disasters Emergency Committee's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, £5.5 million for COVID-19 relief efforts, £4.3m for environmental causes via the Green Match Fund and over £2m for the Grenfell Tower fire appeal. [10] [11]
And a donation today could go further with a generous match from the Gene and Marlene Epstein Humanitarian Fund, which will match up to $10,000 in contributions to Give A Christmas, the ...
As it has done every year, the program will match donations to any of the 50 nonprofits selected for this year's Give BIG Green Bay program over a 24-hour period from noon Feb. 21 to noon Feb. 22 ...
The largest climate fund, the iShares Global Clean Energy ETF , has also struggled, losing more than $794.2 million this year. Nevertheless, there were pockets in the sustainable fund landscape ...
The Big Give is sponsored and supported by the Reed Foundation. It was gifted an 18% stake in Reed Group by the Reed family, prompting The Guardian to write that Reed employees "...effectively work one day a week to fund good causes". [51] The Big Give Trust is chaired by Reed and has helped to raise over £346m for UK-registered charities.
If he wanted to, Zuckerberg could eradicate polio, or de-neglect half a dozen tropical diseases, or fix all the water pipes in Flint, or give $9,000 to every single one of the world's refugees. But $45 billion, as a former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grantee put it, is "a 1,000-pound gorilla."