Organization Details:

ChangingThePresent.org, a new nonprofit website, lets visitors choose exactly how they want to make the world a better place. For instance, for just a few dollars, you can provide a child with her first book; fund an hour of cancer research; protect an acre of wilderness; or restore a blind person's sight with cataract surgery. Donation gifts are also a wonderful way to honor friends and family for their birthdays, weddings and holidays. (After all, how many of us really want another pair of fuzzy slippers?) Wish lists and registries make it easy to find the perfect gift, which you can share with a personalized greeting card. Imagine, for one amazing moment, the scale of our impact when donation gifts become a social norm.

Description and/or History:
Internet luminary Esther Dyson wrote: “[ChangingThePresent] will change not only the way money is raised, but also the way nonprofits fit into people’s lives.”

The team working on this initiative includes:

• the heads of over 125 prominent nonprofit organizations, such as Sierra Club, Sesame Workshop, Save the Children, Global Fund for Children, United States Fund for UNICEF, Rainforest Alliance, Ashoka, Grameen Foundation USA, Lance Armstrong Foundation; International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and Family Care International

• other social sector leaders, such as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams

• internet leaders such as Esther Dyson and the founders of MeetUp and Shopzilla

• executives from such firms as Sony, Ogilvy, McKinsey, Kaye Scholer, Skadden Arps, Wolfensohn, IBM, and Sara Lee.

Contact person: Jen Gherardi, (email)

Address:

200 Park Avenue South #1406 New York, NY 10026 (See a map)