Zing Foundation Inc

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

May 9, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$819,634

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Bolder giving: combining inspiration and action, bolder giving seeks nothing less than to shift our collective culture of giving. Bolder giving deeply believes that each of us has the capacity to give far beyond the charitable norms of today. Specifically, our aim is to encourage people of all backgrounds to:--give more - increasing giving as a percentage of income, assets or business profits.-- risk more - shifting how we give by exploring opportunities to give collaboratively, to give to communities besides our own, and to give to social change andentrepreneurial efforts, and more.-- inspire more - sparking discussions about giving with others and sharing our giving stories to offer a catalyst for new conversations and new giving.fy12 activities and accomplishments include: online presence: bolder giving's new, interactive website was launched at the start of fy12. Unique visits to the site grew in fy12 from 2,249 to 31,356. The new website has an expanded media room, a blog, and increased functionality and capacity to handle many more visitors. New video clips and profiles/bios featuring bold givers were added throughout fy12, and by the end of the fiscal year, 116 bold giver profiles were available for viewing. Visit: www.boldergiving.org.also during fy12, the newly-launched more than money website allowed viewers to read and download all past more than money journals - a popular series of journals published in the 1990s exploring timeless topics such as money and raising children, working with siblings around inheritances, and how to give most effectively to the causes readers care most about. Www.morethanmoney.org. Bold conversations: this core programmatic offering continued through fy12 and engaged over 640 people in this monthly series. As part of our core belief in the power of storytelling, these teleconferences featured a different bold giver each month. They are primarily q&a sessions about the motivations, successes, challenges, and passions of people who choose to give boldly, often well beyond the norm. Program partnerships: in order to share bold giver stories and tools with diverse donor constituencies, bolder giving enters into partnerships with community and public foundations, donor networks, and financials and philanthropic advisors to provide donor programs, staff trainings and development of profiles of bold givers from within each partner's community. Bolder giving maintained or started 5 partnerships in fy12, and worked intensively with these partners to cultivate the full potential of this partnership model. Lgbtq equality initiative and environmental justice initiative: bolder giving launched two topical initiatives in fy12 to focus donor attention on these typically under-funded issues and to catalyze a new wave of giving to support our shared vision for an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable world. Through bolder giving's lgbtq equality initiative, we gathered lgbtq leaders from the philanthropic sector in fy12 to form an advisory committee and began cultivating program partners to increase giving. At the end of fy12, bolder giving secured a large grant to organize give out day in fy13, which will be the first national day of giving to support the lgbtq community. Our environmental justice initiative engaged new communities and long-time donors in conversations about giving big to this issue, which lies at the intersection of social justice and environmental risk. This initiative highlights and intends to catalyze a new wave of giving to issues such as toxins & public health, environmental impacts on communities of color & low-income communities, indigenous people's rights, food safety & security, and climate justice.outreach & dissemination: one of the primary goals of bolder giving is inspire more people to give more boldly than before. To this end, bolder giving works to get our stories in front of a wide range of audiences through a variety of strategies including syndication, media outreach

Activity 3

The presidents' pledge against global poverty (www.presidentspledge.org) is a national initiative to engage college and university presidents, chancellors, past presidents and presidents emeriti in efforts to end extreme poverty. Participants pledge to give five percent or more of their annual income to organizations that mitigate severe poverty in the u.s. And around the world. Participants also lend their public leadership positions and voices to help galvanize the collective will and take the action required to end the most extreme forms of global poverty-a goal that is now within humanity's reach. As higher education leaders, pledge signers inform and inspire the next generation of global citizens-their students-about what can be done to end extreme poverty in our lifetimes.in fy12, the project team accelerated the initiative's move beyond the feasibility study phase and into implementation. Building on continued outreach to presidents in diverse segments of higher education and engaging a network of conversation partners and supporters, fy12 accomplishments for the presidents' pledge against global poverty include:-established a charter member group of 28 pledges;-strengthened communication and planning within the community of pledge participants;-provided media strategy, materials and staff support to presidents and campus public affairs offices in making a national public announcement;-partnered with bolder giving to create and launch a project website;-coordinated media outreach and interviews with higher education media;-developed new public information tools, both print and online; -continued information and recruitment efforts among higher education leaders.

Filer

EIN

57-1190359