Web-centric giving channel turns to tech pioneer

FWR Staff

20 May 2005

GlobalGiving names new CEO in effort to improve operations. GlobalGiving, a web-enabled service for international philanthropy, has made Silicon Valley veteran William Hogan its CEO. The Bethesda, Md.-based platform for project-specific giving says the appointment supports its efforts “to build the company's technology and organizational capacity.”

Hogan has been an executive at Fortune 500 companies Hewlett-Packard, Harris Corporation and TRW. He has also led technology start-ups Lynx, Eternal Systems and Rappore Technologies. His experience in philanthropy includes fund-raising for non-profits, serving on various boards and as director of the South Florida Science Museum in West Palm Beach, Fla. He has a doctorate in computational physics.

Other changes

“Bill is a proven CEO with twenty years of success in founding and managing high technology companies in the global computer and information technology industries,” says Dennis Whittle, GlobalGiving’s co-founder and former CEO.

Whittle has become chairman of GlobalGiving, replacing Carol Realini, who remains a board member. Whittle will maintain an active leadership role, “leading fundraising efforts for GlobalGiving operations, guiding the organization's future development, and ensuring that it delivers on its mission,” according to a company press release.

GlobalGiving seeks to create a “a highly efficient philanthropy marketplace where individuals, corporations, and other institutions can find and directly fund social, environmental, and economic development projects around the world,” according to company blurb. “By aggregating many donors, GlobalGiving enables of all sizes to tap into a new source of funding that goes directly to the project level, giving every dollar more impact.”

Since its launch in 2002, GlobalGiving has helped fund more than 400 projects by “facilitating the flow” of about $1.5 million. –FWR