How do you choose who to give to?

It is nice to see so many businesses forgoing traditional corporate gifts for clients and staff and making a donation to charity instead.
As well as doing some good, the poor staff member tasked with finding a unique gift, within budget, that can be delivered in time is saved from the usual pre Christmas hair pulling [...]

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Wow – what a year!

So, I’m supposed to talk about my favourite stuff at Givealittle…. hmm where to start.
There has been so many great causes and fundraisers, not to mention non-profit organisations, come on board at Givealittle that I struggle to pick a fave.
For me it is pretty impossible to choose one, five or ten so I thought I’d [...]

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One year on…

Givealittle.co.nz launched to the public one year ago today (cue: canned applause, green balloons, party poppers and cheap bubbly now).
The only thing that seems appropriate to reflect on today (apart from all the various ailments now present in the Givealittle office as a result of too much time in front of computers) is the growing [...]

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Mother’s Day

I have been doing a little online research about the history of Mother’s Day, as you do.
I confess to being a bit of a cynic around key dates on the calendar and I blame that on the rampant commercialisation of days like Mother’s Day.
I have been pleasantly surprised to learn of the true origins of [...]

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Change is great!

As the lead developer at Givealittle I have an insiders view of all the improvements and features we have planned on the website over the near future. Over the last couple of days I have been working on a change that has always been on our radar, but one that we actually fast tracked in [...]

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