iGivingWorld (iGW) is devoted to top-tier foundations and philanthropists who set the benchmarks for today’s altruistic efforts. Our goals are to create greater efficiencies, strategies and impact by nurturing collaborations between like-minded individuals and organizations in the philanthropic sector.

The initiative was launched in June, 2009 by Jane Siebels, philanthropist and trustee of the John M. Templeton Foundation, board member of a micro finance organization, Accion International, and CEO of the first socially responsible hedge fund complex, Green Cay Asset Management.

iGW is a for-profit business, it is anticipated that this will allow us to leverage the dynamics of business-building to:

• Create efficiencies in operations and future software enhancements
• Nurture an internal structure that encourages quality, excellence, and best-practices
• Reward top philanthropists and philanthropic projects to encourage impact and sustainable change

A percentage of our profits will be donated to charities at the annual iGivingWorld Awards.


Benefits of Membership


• Connect with other like-minded philanthropists and foundations
• Create and participate in Roundtable discussions about topics of shared interest
• Powerful collaborative tools to share projects, innovative solutions, and causes
• A sharing of “Needs & Offers” between organizations
• First hand knowledge of what others are working on, helping to create better efficiency
• Exclusive industry news, ideas and innovations
• A dynamic "Activity In Your Interests" feed that filters your exact interests in the community
• Private Groups within networks to discuss issues. (different from global Roundtables)
• Simple to use privacy settings and security options

The site also includes standard features such as calendars, messaging, Roundtable discussions (forums), project diaries (blogs), and networking. Simplicity, transparency in use, and utility are the watchwords.

You can download an overview pdf here.


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Jane Siebels - President & Founder
Jane Siebels is founder of iGivingWorld, a natural outcome of her long experience in socially responsible finance and business. Since she founded it in 1997, her Nassau-based hedge-fund Green Cay Asset Management has been premised on social responsibility. Her funds, designed only for wealthy private individuals, embrace emerging markets, technology, and hard assets. All companies considered for investment by her funds are rigorously screened for social reponsibility, including their treatment of employees, consumers, and the environment. Previously, she was a money manager for Sir John Templeton, overseeing $3 billion in investments. Sir John was a founding investor in Jane's Green Cay Asset Management, and her mentor.

Greg Demirjian - CEO
Greg Demirjian is a multimedia creative director and producer who has won national awards for his film projects and presentations for high-profile clients such as Nike, Merck, Pfizer and Dimensional Media Associates, a company who specialized in 3-D holographs. As the founder and publisher of Hampton Jitney Magazine, a lifestyle publication distributed in New York and the Hamptons, a director of photography for Abercrombie & Kent's luxury travel segments, producer for Hamptons Television programming, and Production Manager for the social networking site, ASMALLWORLD, Greg is a leader in content development and design.

Gareth Thomas - CTO
Gareth Thomas has two decades of technology expertise. Most recently, he was Director of Product Development at the exclusive social networking website ASMALLWORLD, during which time he oversaw the challenges of growing the community from 50,000 to more than 350,000 members, including the launch of an on-line magazine and photo-sharing service, along with the incremental implementation of Web 2.0-based technologies. Previously, he was Engineering Manager at the Medwell Group, which built a web-based patient-scheduling and pre-appointment screening application for over 600 medical clinics. In 1996, he co-founded Mercury Software in California as a technology consulting group, which included such clients as Hitachi Data Systems, Toshiba, and Phillips. At the same time he also co-founded Castell Technology, which developed an innovative enterprise portal technology and partnered with Northgate Information Systems to deliver this product to clients in Europe. He has also held senior technical positions at HBOC and First Data Group.

Tegwen Hunt
Tegwen Hunt Hastedt has extensive international sales and equity trading experience within global financial institutions both in her native country Australia and New York where she was a registered representative of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). Through her role as Director of Sales and Trading for the Equity Division of the Japanese bank Mizuho and VP, International Sales Trading for HSBC, she has formed unique relationships within the Securities industry and US Corporate clients. Earlier in her career she held management and marketing roles in Tourism and Hospitality. She holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Sydney.

Nan Mooney
Nan Mooney is a journalist and author of three books, including (Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class, I Can’t Believe She Did That: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work and My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The Daily News, Babble.com, The Seattle Weekly, Alternet Babble, and various other publications. She currently lives in Seattle with her son Leo and far too much rain.