Pittsburgh's Day of Giving

Now in its second year, the PittsburghGives.org provides an opportunity for people to donate to their favorite non-profit organizations through one simple portal. donors can give anytime during the year, but on the designated Day of Giving, all donations made are matched by The Pittsburgh Foundation and other foundations. During this day, organizations & TPF offer giving stations all over the city, as well as up-to-the-minute updates through social media.

They had issues the first year. The portal was not simple enough and instead of a 24-hour window with gift pro-rated, they did a first-come, first-served dollar-for-dollar match that had people flooding the site and overloading it.

This year, they did a second Day of Giving targeted towards arts organizations. I love this idea, not because of the money that's brought it but because of the unified sense of community & support of our arts world in Pittsburgh (and, boy, do we need that).

Here's an article

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11133/1146152-325.stm?cmpid=theater.xml