Its been a really busy week again, but we are very pleased to announce CharityKick’s partnership to #GivingTuesday.

For those of you not familiar with it, GivingTuesday is the day for giving that follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We are very happy to be a part of such a great idea and in the spirit of our site, dare all Black Friday shoppers to give to a good cause on the 27^th of November, GivingTuesday. We invite as many organizations as possible to join this movement started by (RED), 92^nd St Y, American Red Cross, Global Giving, Kiva, and the Salvation Army, but also Groupon, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Skype, Sony and Unilever. We got a warm welcome from Henry Timms Deputy Executive Director at 92^nd St Y and co-founder of #GivingTuesday: “We’re pleased to have CharityKick daring to give on #GivingTuesday”, they are a great group with a great goal!

On another note, we’ve also started a service through Raise5! Helping people start a dare on CharityKick by designing a dare poster to all who donate $5 to Doctors Without Borders. If you haven’t heard of Raise5, they’re also a great group, check it out! Raise5 is a micro-service donation platform, where people can volunteer their skills for a cause and essentially turn buyers into donors. After speaking to Mike Tang, their co-founder, we decided to follow his advice and list a service as well as try out a few for ourselves. We didn’t only get great results, this also allowed us to connect with like-minded professionals, which proved to be a goldmine in itself!

Looking forward to updating you on our progress next week!

Greg Fournier