A pioneer of e-Philanthropy, Mr. Grosshandler designed the online charity mall model and launched iGive.com in 1997. Today, over 350,000 socially-conscious people choose to use iGive and the iGive Button to shop at over 1,900 socially-responsible stores in order to help 50,000 causes and charities. He continues to develop the company's overall strategy and champions its philosophy of "change online shopping for good."
Natural entrepreneurs think in the future tense. Being merely up-to-date is to be behind the curve. Rob Grosshandler, the founder of iGive, tells me, “I was never able to stay still–just wouldn’t happen.
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“More than one million charities will lose a key funding source next month, and the iGive team is already seeing the scramble for financial stability,” said Rob Grosshandler, iGive CEO. “Their concerns turned into a 600% increase in consumers using and signing up with iGive in the first hours after the AmazonSmile shutdown was announced. It’s small, hyper local charities that are hurt the most when funding dries up, so we’re eagerly racing to ease the donation transition for our more than 100,000 charity partners.”