WiserGiving launched in June 2012 featuring a unique tool, WiserGiving Style Quiz℠, which is designed to help you understand your own strategic approach to philanthropy. This tool was developed with Clohesy Consulting. We will continue adding strategy tools, apps, and expert-moderated Q&A forums to give our users an even better social, collaborative, and personal learning experience.

WiserGiving is the vision of Liz Bremner, a seasoned philanthropy executive, and Karen Crow, an Internet veteran. Witnessing the repeated frustration of Silicon Valley colleagues who struggled to find relevant philanthropy information online, they designed a donor-centered site where individuals can get answers to their philanthropy questions and find tools to help them become more strategic givers.

In the spring of 2010, WiserGiving joined forces with WiserEarth.org, an online global social justice and environmental network founded in 2007 by New York Times bestselling author, environmentalist and entrepreneur, Paul Hawken. WiserEarth helps like-minded people and organizations connect, collaborate and share knowledge, online and offline. It is the largest community driven directory of nonprofits from around the world with 112,000 nonprofit partners and 60,000 members.

Elizabeth Bremner, Co-Founder

Except for a stint scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager, Liz has spent her career in the nonprofit sector. For 25 years she has provided leadership for new and emerging philanthropic organizations as the President of The Foundation Incubator, President and CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, and founding Executive Director of the Los Angeles Women's Foundation. She contributes her experience in management, finance, fundraising and strategic planning to numerous nonprofits as an ad hoc volunteer and through board service. She is passionate about the power of people to transform the world, hiking and growing food.

Karen Crow, Co-Founder

Karen Crow is a 15 year Internet veteran. Since co-founding WiserGiving in 2010, she has been responsible for overall strategy and product development. Prior to launching WiserGiving, she spent seven years at Google where she was responsible for West Coast Sales and Operations. She holds a business patent and is a recipient of the Google Founders' Award, recognizing leaders who have made extraordinary contribution to the company. Prior to jumping into the internet world, she was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting, an international strategy consulting firm. When not busy with WiserGiving, she can be found playing with her three young boys and dreaming of windsurfing days ahead.

Stephanie Clohesy, Chief Philanthropy Advisor

Stephanie is founder and principal of Clohesy Consulting, an organizational development firm offering planning, research, and design services to philanthropic foundations and nonprofit institutions. Her thirty years of national and international experience include public policy reform, women's and human rights, civic participation and democratization, and organizational and leadership development. Stephanie focuses her work on the “intersections” in equality and social justice issues. Stephanie helped create Making the Case for the Women's Funding Network, which inspired the WiserGiving Style Quiz. Stephanie lives in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Peggy Duvette, Advisor

Peggy's caring and activism for the environment was seeded at a young age being surrounded mountainous beauty growing up in small town, Briancon, France. She has served as the Executive Director of WiserEarth for 3 years, where she has been involved in groundbreaking research on socially responsible investing. In Europe, she worked for Coca Cola Company in the field of logistics. She holds an MBA in Sustainability and is interested in the intersection of sustainability across sectors, specifically how to harness the power of existing initiatives for communities of action to be more effective. In her spare time, Peggy loves to cycle, read and climb trees with her daughter.

Eric Griego, Designer

With a spark of inspiration, Eric established Firestik Studio in 2005. He has over 16 years experience in branding, graphic design and advertising. He collaborates with his clients to create strong visual brands across various mediums that touch hearts and resonate in minds. His work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Print, Graphic Design USA and AIGA New Mexico. His end goal is to do great work with great people.

Yun-Fang Juan, Software Engineer

Yun-Fang is a software engineer with deep interests in social networks, very large scale computing, and cross platform applications. She worked for Facebook for five years, where she one of the founding engineers of Facebook Ads. Prior to Facebook, she was a Technical Yahoo for six years. She has helped the WiserGiving team launch the first facebook app. In addition to launching WiserGiving, she hosts a cooking blog One Dish A Day, loves yoga and has an adorable 1 year old daughter.

Eugene Eric Kim, Strategist

Eugene is co-founder of a new company, Groupaya, which helps groups work together more skillfully to create their futures. Formerly, he co-founded and was principal at Blue Oxen Associates working with organizations to help them develop collaborative strategies. His past clients include NASA and the Wikimedia Foundation. He's passionate about maximizing collective intelligence for the greater good.

Christina Samala, Online and Social Marketing

Christina serves as Director of Online Strategy and Media for The Story of Stuff Project. She applies her diverse background in business, technology, and visual arts to manage the Project's brand and craft its online strategies. Previously, Christina spent seven years as a one-stop, ad hoc creative and marketing department for social impact organizations, working as a branding, marketing and design consultant on behalf of nonprofit and for-benefit organizations. Her professional life has taken her on adventures through many industries, sectors, and geographies but her passion keeps her rooted in fostering and strengthening communities.

Our Advisors

• Stephanie Clohesy, Principal, Clohesy Consulting
• Glen Galaich, Executive Director, TPW West
• Beth Kanter, Co-Author Networked Nonprofit, and Beth's Blog
• Kate Spelman, Partner, Cobalt Law LLP
• Suzanne Siskel, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, The Asia Foundation

Contributors

• Jill Blair, Founding Principal, Jill Blair Consulting
• Betsy Brill, Founder, Strategic Philanthropy, Ltd.
• Stephanie Clohesy, Principal, Clohesy Consulting
• Crystal Hayling, Former President and CEO of the Blue Shield of California Foundation
• Jenny Hodgson, Executive Director, Global Fund for Community Foundations
• Miya Iwataki, Former Director, Office of Diversity and Cultural Competency at Los Angeles County Health Services Administration
• Alicia Lara, Vice President of Community Investment at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles

WiserGiving Style Quiz™ incorporates decades of experience and knowledge about social change strategies. By combining this with the power of the internet, the team of Karen Crow, Stephanie Clohesy, Jill Blair and Liz Bremner, developed a powerful, do-it-yourself quiz that will help you understand how you solve problems, think about how your current giving aligns with your style and help put you on the road to creating an effective framework for pursuing the change you want to see in the world.

The WiserGiving Style Quiz™ was inspired in part by the Women's Funding Network's planning and evaluation tool, Making the Case, which was developed by a team of consultants lead by Stephanie Clohesy. Stephanie later reengineered Making the Case to use as donor strategy tool for her consulting work with high net worth individuals and families.

WiserEarth/WiserGiving
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Sausalito, California 94965

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WiserEarth/WiserGiving
3 Gate Five Road, Suite D
Sausalito, California 94965

Contact Peggy Duvette at WiserEarth/WiserGiving about gifts of securities at 415.331.6241.