Giving Platform Grapevine Offers Everyone a Safe Way to be a Philanthropist.

In this week’s episode of The North Group’s podcast, Time to Head North, we sit down with the CEO of Grapevine. Emily Rasmussen had a simple idea. Gather people. Do Good. That’s it. It’s a giving platform essentially modeled after a giving tree. The idea to move it online came with Covid.

On Grapevine’s website, the idea and mission are perfectly summarized……

“After working in the nonprofit sector for several years, Emily Rasmussen teamed up with Jessan Hutchinson-Quillian and Chloe Moon, senior engineers from Google who had helped to launch Google’s Giving Week and build their giving platform. A few months later they launched the first version of Grapevine – a platform that helped everyday people to connect with experts to identify nonprofits that matched their passion.

A few Giving Circles discovered Grapevine. The team realized that their model was an even more engaging and effective way for people to discover nonprofits – through community. They also learned that these collaborative groups were bogged down by administrative challenges. In 2019, Grapevine launched a beta of a new platform that would address the administrative burden – pooling donations, communicating with members, providing tax-deductible donation receipts, transparent granting, and more. This allowed collaborative giving groups to set up their communities and start collecting donations in minutes.”

To date, Grapevine has given 31 million dollars to 4,000 nonprofit organizations. Listen to Emily’s interview below and check out Grapevine for yourself. You can check out other podcast episodes by visiting our website or check out the audio-only version on iTunes, Spotify, or Podbean. Don’t forget to subscribe!