Volunteer Needed
Veterans Cause
ImportantGifts.org

Please see the posting below. For questions, please contact:
Robert Tolmach
tel: 212 972 2368
rtolmach [at] WellGoodLLC.com

Short-term volunteer needed to help generate new funding for Nonprofits serving Veterans

ImportantGifts, a new nonprofit, will capture new money for nonprofits addressing the needs of veterans. We seek a volunteer to spend about 10 hours doing online research (which they could do from home) to help us reach the target audience.

ImportantGifts: The Next Big Thing

At the same time that the nonprofits we all care about, including those addressing the needs of veterans, are struggling for funding, Americans spend $250 billion each year buying presents for one another, many of which are not very meaningful for the giver or recipient.

There comes a point where most people prefer more meaning in their lives, rather than more stuff. So it is no surpise that the media has reported the beginning of a trend that we call donation gifts. That is, charitable donations in someone's name, instead of traditional birthday, holiday or wedding gifts. You feel good, they feel good, and together you help make the world a better place.

The question is, where do you go to shop for a meaningful donation gift? Filling this need is the fundamental idea behind ImportantGifts.org. The website lets you browse by cause to find thousands of real donation opportunities from outstanding nonprofits. You can choose not just what organization to fund, but exactly what your money will accomplish. For example, you can honor a friend by providing cataract surgery to make a blind person see, preserve an acre of the rainforest, feed the hungry - or help a vet.

Helping Veterans

One of the featured causes on ImportantGifts is Veterans, and the list of Featured Veterans nonprofits is listed below. We ask those who care about veterans to consider giving such donation gifts instead of more stuff, and to add veteran care items to their wish lists, so that others know that they would appreciate such a donation made in their name.

Veterans nonprofits invited to be featured on ImportantGifts

• America's National World War II Museum
• Coalition to Salute America's Heroes
• Disabled American Veterans
• Fisher House
• Homes for Our Troops
• National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
• Treat Any Soldier
• United Services Organization
• Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
• Wounded Warriors

Volunteer Needed

So how do we reach people who care about veterans? There are many magazines, websites, newsletters, listserves, chat rooms, organizations, etc. that can help us reach them. We seek a volunteer to help research these communication channels so that we can reach out to them on the day we launch, around November 1. The work will be done online, can be done from home, and will probably take about 10 hours to complete.

(We already have a volunteer for most of the other 32 causes.)

If you'd be interested in helping or know someone who might, please contact:
Jen Gherardi
tel: 212 972 2368 ext.11
jgherardi@WellGoodLLC.com

ImportantGifts
Partial List of Board of Advisors (Social Sector Only)

Alan J. Abramson

• Director, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, The Aspen Institute

Maya Ajmera

• President, Global Fund for Children

• Founder, Mexican Center for Philanthropy

Kenneth Austin
• President, Association of Black Foundation Executives

• President, Refugees International

• President, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers

• President and CEO, World Learning
• Former Executive Director, UNICEF

• President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

• Chair, Global Water Partnership
• Former President, Canadian International Development Agency

• President and CEO, Grameen Foundation USA

• CEO, Chair and Founder, Ashoka

• Executive Director, Grantmakers in Aging

• President and CEO, The National Council on the Aging

• Senior Fellow, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• President and CEO, America's Second Harvest
• Chair, Alliance to End Hunger

• President , American Farmland Trust

• President, International Center for Research on Women

• President, Catholic Relief Service

• Chair, U.S. Committee for Food and Agriculture Organization

• President, 21st Century Foundation

• Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps

• Senior Vice President, United Nations Foundation

• President, Sesame Workshop

• President and Founder, Teach For America

• President, International Trachoma Initiative

• Director, Centre for Social Research

• Chair of the Board, United States Fund for UNICEF

• Chair, Water Supply & Sanitation, Collaborative Council
• Chair, Technical Committee, Global Water Partnership, Earth Institute, Columbia University

• Acting President, Center for Global Development

• President and CEO, Save the Children

• Executive Director, Net Impact

• Founding Co-Chair, Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa

• Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Former President and Advisor, Seeds of Peace

• President and CEO, Public Radio International

• Secretary General, CIVICUS
• Chair, Global Call to Action Against Poverty

• Executive Director, Sierra Club

• President, National Alliance to End Homelessness

• Former President and Distinguished Fellow, Synergos Institute

• Chairman of the Board, Edison Schools
• Former President, Yale University

• President, Family Care International

• President, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

• President and CEO, Lance Armstrong Foundation

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development

• Program Officer and Managing Director, Trade and Development, Global Development Program, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

• Senior Fellow, Environment and Development, Moriah Fund

• Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance

• Executive Director, Global AIDS Alliance

For more information, contact: info [at] ImportantGifts.org