Latest Giving Stories

GiftCards.com, the highest ranking and most trafficked gift card website on the Internet, agrees to acquire Giftly, a two-year old startup that enables consumers to buy and deliver digital gifts via its website and free app. PITTSBURGH, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GiftCards.com(TM), the leading website for gift cards, today agreed to acquire Giftly, the leading mobile gifting app, to build a digital and mobile commerce platform in the $110 billion gift card industry. Founded in...

Gift Card Industry Veteran Andrew Dodge to Drive eGifter Partnerships with Major Retailers Melville, NY (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 eGifter, the social and mobile gifting company, today announced the hire of Andrew Dodge as Vice President of Sales. Mr. Dodge will focus on driving demand among retailers and payment channel partners for the eGifter Platform, which enables retailers to add social gifting, group gifting, and mobile delivery of eGift cards to their own web sites, fan pages and mobile...

Transaction Wireless powers merchant gift card programs for Mother’s Day. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Transaction Wireless, a cloud-based enterprise solution for B2C and B2B gift cards, is in full swing powering merchant gift card programs throughout the Mother’s Day holiday, providing last minute shoppers and those who will not be with Mom on her special day with a personalized gift. As more moms become users of smartphones and tablets in everyday life, digital gift cards come...

Popular fruit basket company Capalbo's Gift Baskets offers a lovely variety of gifts for Mom – from wine baskets, to spa baskets, gourmet food baskets, and fruit baskets – many with shipping included. Clifton, NJ (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 12. Don’t panic – Capalbo’s Gift Baskets has the gift for Mom’s big day! The largest gift basket company in the NJ/NY/CT tri-state area for over 100 years, is fully stocked with everything she could want...

20 Million Seniors Volunteering Nearly 3 Billion Hours - a Value of $67 Billion; Senior Corps Week - May 6-10 - Showcases Impact of Older Volunteers WASHINGTON, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to new data released today by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), senior volunteering is at a 10-year high - one in three volunteers is a senior age 55 and older. These men and women tap a lifetime of experience to help those in greatest need. More than...

Program to Launch with the African Lion & Environmental Research Trust (ALERT) NEW YORK, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rubenstein Public Relations (RPR) has launched a new company program today that will provide pro bono communications services on behalf of highly-regarded nonprofit organizations around the world, beginning with the African Lion & Environmental Research Trust (ALERT), a lion conservation and restoration charity located in Zambia, Africa. ALERT is dedicated to...

ShopAtHome.com Survey finds heart-felt presents and time spent together mean more to moms and dads; but graduates? They want cash. DENVER, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The majority of moms and dads (52 and 48 percent, respectively) expect a gift of $30 or less this Mother's and Father's Day, according to survey results released today from ShopAtHome.com, the largest coupon and Cash Back search engine used by more than 19 million consumers each month. The survey found that parents...

GiftBasketsOverseas.com unveils a hot new line of ideal gifts for Moms around the world ARLINGTON, Mass., April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GiftBasketsOverseas.com, the experts in international gift delivery, announced today the release of limited time gifts exclusively for Mother's Day. This year, Mother's Day falls on Sunday, May 12, in the United States and a number of countries around the world including Canada, Australia, China, Brazil, and a number of places in between. Families...

Send a gift basket with wine, champagne, chocolates or other gourmet goodies from Capalbo's Gift Baskets – or send a spa basket – but send something! Clifton, NJ (PRWEB) April 18, 2013 Administrative Professionals Week is April 21st – April 27th, 2013 and Capalbo’s Gift Baskets, the largest gift basket company in the NJ/NY/CT tri-state area for over 100 years, has the perfect gift for administrative professionals. "Thanks" is one word which says it all – and the...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Microsoft was honored with two Summit awards for community impact and volunteer engagement from United Way Worldwide, the country's largest privately funded nonprofit. Microsoft not only reached the $1 billion mark in employee giving and corporate matching funds in 2012, but employees also volunteered 2 million hours since the launch of the company's volunteer matching program. (Logo:...