eBay Foundation: Powering Economic Opportunity
eBay Foundation is proud to announce the launch of The Opportunity Project, a global social innovation initiative designed to support and help scale market-based approaches to providing economic opportunity in vulnerable, impoverished communities. As a first step in finding some of the brightest, most successful social entrepreneurs doing this work, the Foundation is launching a global, open-source competition in partnership with Ashoka’s Changemakers.
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The first corporate foundation to be endowed with pre-IPO stock, eBay Foundation was established in 1998, underscoring the company’s early commitment to philanthropy. Over the years, eBay Foundation has made investments toward a vision of all people being able to participate fully in the global economy.
Today, eBay Foundation focuses on two primary areas of investment:
Powering Economic Opportunity
eBay Foundation is proud to launch The Opportunity Project, a global social innovation initiative designed to support and help scale market-based approaches to empowering economic opportunity in vulnerable, impoverished communities. The Opportunity Project extends the Foundation’s belief in creating opportunity and making a difference in the world by supporting social innovations in vulnerable communities.
To learn more please visit The Opportunity Project.
Engaging Employees
In communities around the world where eBay Inc. has business operations, employees are involved in promoting and managing charitable giving and volunteerism. Through eBay Foundation GIVE Teams, employees are directly involved in recommending grants to organizations that are the most important to them. eBay Inc. employees can find information about how to recommend an organization for a GIVE Team grant on the Foundation’s pages of the company’s intranet.
To learn more please visit GIVE Team.
eBay Foundation reaches out directly to potential partner organizations for information or receives recommendations for GIVE Team grants directly from our employees, and does not accept unsolicited grant proposals. Thank you.