eQualityGiving (www.eQualityGiving.org) is the online donor community focused on achieving legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans. Its membership is limited to major and mega donors, their political advisors, the executive directors of organizations, and pro-equality elected officials or candidates. This very selective group uses the web to discuss how to give strategically to achieve legal equality for the LGBTQ community.

Building on its proven success, eQualityGiving is now expanding its reach by using similar technology as MySpace and Facebook, but applied to grow and support a donor community.

In describing this expanded online donor community, Dr. Juan Ahonen-Jover, cofounder of eQualityGiving stated "To get legal equality that some people oppose you need extraordinary focus and dedication." He continued, "eQualityGiving provides tools to all of those determined to reach legal equality faster."

eQualityGiving provides a safe online community in which donors can interact with other donors and thought leaders without any pressure to donate. Donors are able to read confidential reports, vote online regarding different issues, respond to articles written by experts, participate in conference calls, vote online on different issues, and blog about their strategy for giving.

Dr. Ken Ahonen-Jover, co-founder of eQualityGiving, explains "Our members know that their giving is not tracked and that they can participate without disclosing their private information to others. This creates a safe and strategic online donor community empowered with all the necessary tools to achieve legal LGBTQ equality through a shared conversation."

So far, 48 authors have written exclusive articles for this online community including Ambassadors, major and mega donors, executive directors and other thought leaders. More articles are continuously being added. Articles are considered as the reference material on a topic and authors have the capability to update the article in real time from their own computer, providing unique freshness to the information.

Some of the authors include:

• Ambassador Michael Guest writing about workplace discrimination in the Federal Government
• Chip Arndt, gay winner of The Amazing Race, writing about winning the race and becoming a strategic donor and fundraiser
• Robert Raben, president of the Raben Group, inducting Barney Frank as an Equality Hero
• Charlie Rounds, president of RSVP vacations, writing about his LGBT giving strategy for 2008

In addition, eQualityGiving continues its role of endorsing pro-equality politicians based on a rigorous, objective criteria, which is a model for the community.

Posted by David Mariner at March 4, 2008 08:07 AM