Why Geneva Global?
Our distinct benefits make Geneva Global a clear choice
We know that when it comes to philanthropic giving, you have a lot of choices. From well-known international charities to various intermediary services, it can be confusing to know which organization will put your charitable giving to the best use. We believe Geneva Global's unique model provides the greatest result, while also ensuring that more of your money gets to those in need. Read more about our approach, and we think you'll agree.
High-Performance Philanthropy
Maximizing your impact
Thru Geneva Global
Your donation goes from GGI to the people and communities that need it the most, filtered directlt to grass roots charitable organizations vetted and monitored for effectiveness and efficiency.
The Process:
- Your donation is sent to GGI
- GGI send your donation to vetted grass roots charitable organizations
- The end recipients receive your donation's maximum impact (a 30% greater impact *)
Traditional Charity
Your donation gets sent through a funneling system, where maximum impact can be lost through multiple parties' handling of your donation.
The Process:
- Your donation is sent to a big brand charity
- The big brand charity sends a portion of your donation to a regional office
- The regional office sends a portion of your donation to a national office
- The national office sends a portion of your donation to a partner organization
- The end recipients receive your final donation's impact
The Details that Make the Difference
- Reach the most desperate, remote locations
- Research and assess highly effective, grass-roots organizations
- Fund grass-roots organizations (bottom-up approach)
- Consolidate efforts/find synergies within sectors and locations
- Receive Investment-quality research, monitoring and measurement
- Service-oriented to be responsive to your wishes and concerns
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Independent, Investment-Quality
Research and Evaluation
We believe that all giving should be treated as a sound investment. Identifying excellent opportunities for philanthropic investment and understanding the impact of those investments requires careful due diligence and independent evaluation. Unlike many charitable giving options available to you, Geneva Global isn’t promoting programs we operate overseas. Instead, we identify and assess the most effective international giving opportunities in some of the world’s hardest places. Our independence means that we’re able to offer you objective analysis of both potential risks and impact of international giving opportunities, and provide honest reporting on the final outcomes. We’ve pioneered this investment mindset approach, and offer you the experience gained from a decade of helping clients to maximize the effectiveness of their international giving.
Customizable Services to Suit Your Needs
We know that every donor is unique. We will work with you to address your specific needs with the specific services you require to make the most of your international giving. From creating granting strategies to focus your giving, to identifying effective granting opportunities, to conducting investment quality due diligence, to monitoring existing programs or evaluation of final results, we can help you make the most of your giving. That is why you can choose either our grant facilitation package in the form of Funds or our completely customizable Consulting Services.
Connection to Changed Lives
Giving comes from the heart, and we want the Geneva Global experience to enhance the fulfillment you experience when you give. While our reporting services can provide updates on the facts – how projects are performing, how a Fund is progressing – we also make sure you are connected, with photographs and testimonies from people whose lives have been changed as a direct result of your giving. And for those who want a deeper connection, we offer additional services, including guided site visits of the projects your giving enabled.
More to Those In Need
Geneva Global exists to foster the most effective international giving. When it comes to helping you find effective ways to give internationally, Geneva Global offers you the unique opportunity to give directly to effective grass-roots organizations addressing the most serious humanitarian issues. We know from measuring the results of over 1,000 projects that locally-based and community-owned organizations are highly effective at identifying creative, lasting solutions to local problems. With lower overheads than international organizations, these local organizations almost always provide the most cost-effective solutions. This means that more of the money you give goes to those in need.
The Path Less Traveled
Big brand charities do a great service to the world's underprivileged, but they tend to focus on city-centers and easily accessible locations. Unfortunately, many of the world's most dire situations exist in the more remote and isolated areas that are seldom heard from or heard about. Geneva Global has always focused our attention and support on these areas, and for us, for our clients and for those we impact, it has truly made all the difference.
Extensive International Infrastructure
Finding the unsung heroes providing local solutions to poverty in far off places isn’t easy. So how do we do it? We’ve spent nearly a decade building relationships with and earning the trust of over 450 community leaders with community development experience, more than 70 consultants in the countries where we’ve placed our clients’ funds, and brought over 1,600 organizations to our donors’ attention. We rely on this extensive international network to help us identify the best social entrepreneurs, working to bring positive transformation to their communities. That’s how we put your giving to work with the most cost-effective and results oriented local organizations around the world. We don’t think you’ll find another organization with the same experience and extensive network, taking the same approach.
Measurable Impact
When you give to organizations addressing needs internationally, it’s very rare to know what difference your giving actually made. Not so at Geneva Global. We make it a priority to define and measure the impact your giving makes, and to be transparent about results. We firmly believe that honesty about goals, results, successes and even failures is essential to clients, and also essential to our business. We go to great lengths to accurately collect information, track results, report performance and, when necessary, take stock in our mistakes. Our plan is always to maximize your investment, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our Funds, and provide the greatest impact on the greatest number of lives. Our proprietary metrics – developed and refined over nearly a decade – will help you quantify the social return on investment (SROI) so that you can know the measurable difference your giving has made.
Tax-Deductible International Giving
By working with our 501 (c) (3) partners, Geneva Global can take the complexity out of tax-deductible international giving. When you give through one of our partner organizations, you receive a gift receipt for your records. It’s that easy.