GlobalGiving 's mission
is to build a highly efficient marketplace where individuals, corporations,
and other institutions can find and fund projects around the world.

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SAN FRANCISCO----Tides Foundation
has named Randall Miller as its new associate director of
philanthropic services.

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Omidyar Network and Hewlett Foundation Invest $2.3 Million in GlobalGiving 's Mission to Reinvent International Philanthropy

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"By allowing donors to
fund projects directly , more money can get to communities where it will have
the greatest impact."
To get projects on the site, GlobalGiving partners with 31 NGOs, which
support the work of social entrepreneurs around the globe through fellowship
and awards programs.

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Miller will work with the Foundation operations team, bolstering
grants management and regulatory compliance, as well as helping the
Foundation deliver the best in philanthropic services such as donor
advised funds, management services to private and family foundations
and international grantmaking.

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"GlobalGiving is building a new model for international philanthropy,"
said Susan Bell, Vice President, Hewlett Foundation .
Miller also served as the executive director for the National Task
Force on AIDS Prevention, a national and regional collaboration of
community-based organizations that provides prevention education ,
treatment information and care for people of color.

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About Tides Foundation

Tides Foundation granted more than $74 million to social change
nonprofits in 2004.

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Additional
funding has been provided by the WK Kellogg Foundation, the Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation, and HP.

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Since
GlobalGiving launched in 2002, it has facilitated the flow of $2 million to
over 400 projects. Prior
to that position, he was the director of the Community Health
Investment Fund (CHIF) at the Alameda Alliance for Health in San
Leandro.

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Randall was a key architect of CHIF, which awarded
approximately $10 million to organizations serving low-income
individuals and families.

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GlobalGiving donors have access to over 400 projects in 60 countries in a
broad range of themes such as education, environment , health, and economic
development.

Making grants to individual women, groups of women, or groups working on a broad range of issues specific to women.

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These NGOs see GlobalGiving as an additional channel of
funding for their social entrepreneurs' work.

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"We
view GlobalGiving as a promising avenue for getting aid funds to innovative
and high-impact initiatives.

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"Through GlobalGiving, communities can form around shared interests to
drive real change," said Doug Solomon, vice president of investments at
Omidyar Network.
Major funding partners include Omidyar Network, the Hewlett Foundation ,
the Skoll Foundation, USAID, and the Sall Family Foundation.

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About GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving was founded by two former World Bank executives who led the
team that created the World Bank Development Marketplace, at which social
entrepreneurs from around the world compete for grants.

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Since 1976, the Foundation has partnered with
donors and institutions by offering donor-advised funds, philanthropic
advice and management services for social change philanthropy.

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Tides Foundation Names Randall Miller as Associate Director of Philanthropic Services

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This bottom-up model of giving complements traditional channels
such as large aid agencies.

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Both organizations support
GlobalGiving's mission to build a marketplace that helps fund social and
economic development projects around the world, while creating an engaging
donor experience.
"We are pleased to learn of expanded support from Omidyar and Hewlett,"
said Dan Runde, Director of USAID's Global Development Alliance, which joined
foundations and the private sector to help fund GlobalGiving's launch.

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Miller has worked in the nonprofit sector for twenty years. Tides
is committed to strengthening community-based nonprofit organizations
through national and global philanthropy -- creating a positive impact
on people's lives in ways that honor and promote human rights,
economic justice and a healthy, sustainable environment.

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"Rather than supporting top down, prescriptive measures,
GlobalGiving enables communities to develop the most relevant solutions to
their challenges and aggregates thousands of donors to fund those solutions.
"Funding from Omidyar and Hewlett will enable us to continue enhancing our
technology and processes, creating a scalable platform with global reach to
the village level," said Dennis Whittle, co-founder and chairman of
GlobalGiving.

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CONTACT: Joan Ochi of GlobalGiving, +1-301-652-8455,
jochi@globalgiving .

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For example, in addition to enabling the general
public to find and fund projects, GlobalGiving works with organizations such
as USAID to spur public-private sector partnerships, amplifying this powerful
new channel of international aid and philanthropy.

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WASHINGTON, GlobalGiving, an Internet -based service
focused on making international philanthropy more efficient and high impact,
received a second round of operational grant money from Omidyar Network ($1. Most
recently, he served for three years as the director of grant programs
at the Vanguard Public Foundation, a small, progressive funder located
in San Francisco with $4 million to $5 million in annual grants.

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