eBay has acquired MissionFish – the innovative technology and team that powers the eBay Giving Works program – from the Points of Light Institute.
Since 2003, MissionFish has provided eBay with the back-end tech to power the eBay Giving Works program in the US (they’ve powered eBay for Charity – the same program in the UK – since 2005). I’ve written about them many times here on Ink and in the more than 8 years they’ve been an eBay partner, they’ve helped raise nearly a quarter of a billion dollars for the nonprofit sector by connecting consumers with nonprofit causes.
The eBay Giving Works program will continue to function as it has done to date, with the Points of Light Institute handling and delivering donations to charities. eBay will begin the process of creating a separate nonprofit organization that will eventually be directly responsible for the collection and distribution of funds. (More …)
