Greenzones
Greenzones is an online platform launched in 2013 with the purpose of consolidating and connecting charitable organizations around the world. Greenzones goals includes providing in-depth information and tools to socially connect and promote the worlds charitable organizations on ITS Platform.
Greenzones hopes to enable charities to be browsable on every major device and operating system by early 2014. Greenzones Long term plans includes building a mechanism that supports in kind giving by companies and professionals around the world to charitable organizations in need of their products and services.
User Experience
Charities are organized into categories in which they operate (emergency services, wildlife, health, education, etc.) so that the public can endorse their charity of choice and so that professionals and companies can connect to charities they would like to engage with.
Greenzones leverages social media, providing a way for individuals and organizations to promote charities they are interested in. (Such as posting to Facebook, blogging, Greenzones embeddable widgets, tweeting, “like” counters and the ability to invite friends to endorse or connect with the charities.)
Purpose
Greenzones claims that by motivating charitable organizations to adjust their operating practices, resources could be better allocated towards their causes.
In Kind Giving
Greenzones seeks to free-up resources and further expand charitable services to beneficiaries by partnering with professionals, companies and corporations who would donate in-kind. The Greenzones platform will be the first online system enabling professionals, companies and organizations to give in-kind to charity on a global scale.