Vegan Outreach

GoFundMe; Emory University | February 27, 2020

Today, Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE), a nonprofit biotechnology company owned by Emory University, launched a GoFundMe charity campaign to help accelerate testing for its antiviral compound that could potentially be used to treat the new coronavirus associated with the outbreak in China and spreading around the globe. While a related treatment, administered via injection, is currently being evaluated for COVID-19 in China, DRIVE's approach is centered around an oral pill. Having ...

Nonprofit Technology

Wellsky Foundation | June 07, 2022

The WellSky Foundation, a charity that works to improve the quality of life for vulnerable people, gave $100,000 to the STEM Goes Red program of the American Heart Association. STEM Goes Red was designed to capitalize on the American Heart Association's tradition of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and raise STEM awareness among young women. STEM Goes Red will use a two-year, $100,000 grant from the WellSky Foundation to give scholarships to women in college w...

United Way | March 30, 2020

From its newly launched local COVID-19 Response Fund, United Way has rapidly directed $50,000 to 11 Central Oregon nonprofits providing emergency assistance and essential services to the individuals and families most impacted by economic fallout of COVID-19. Oregon Community Foundation, through its Oregon Community Recovery Fund, contributed $30,000 that United Way Central Oregon COVID-19 Response Fund as part of OCF’s rapid deployment of resources to community-based organizations at the f...

Fundraising, Nonprofit Technology

Blackbaud | August 23, 2022

Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, today announced that it has acquired Kilter. The acquisition will allow Blackbaud to expand activity-based peer-to-peer fundraising engagement, to support activity-based health and wellness initiatives for socially responsible companies, and to grow the ways individuals can connect with the causes they care about most through the activities they love. Kilter is an intuitive, gamified, ac...