Bill Barmeier

The Community Gives campaign helps create good in the world by inspiring people to contribute together to causes that matter. To this end, the eBay Foundation is donating $1 million to three worthy nonprofit organizations – to be split equally among them – and is asking the eBay Community to join in. For each Community member who contributes to one of the nonprofits during the campaign, the Foundation will donate an additional dollar, up to $100,000. Imagine what we can do when we all give together!

In deciding which nonprofit organizations to support in the campaign, eBay Foundation worked with active Community members in eBay's Voices of the Community program to set appropriate selection criteria. After identifying a number of nonprofits that met the criteria deemed most important by our Community members, the Foundation evaluated them further, reviewing their history and accomplishments, their fiscal responsibility and strength, their impact on the causes they address, and their rankings based on public charity standards.

From this review, eBay Foundation selected the three nonprofit organizations to be supported in the Community Gives campaign -- First Book, Best Friends Animal Society and Oxfam. The Foundation then worked with these nonprofits to identify specific projects to fund, as this ensures that our dollars will truly make a tangible difference. Through these projects, we will help:

• First Book provide new books so that hundreds of thousands of low-income children can discover the magic of reading,
• Best Friends Animal Society build a puppy care center so that hundreds of abused and injured puppies can have a chance to find loving permanent homes, and
• Oxfam supply access to clean, safe water to alleviate poverty for tens of thousands of people in Ethiopia and Zambia.

Donate today; eBay and PayPal fees waived!
We welcome your participation in the Community Gives campaign! To participate, or find more information about the campaign, please go to www.communitygives.org. The Community Gives campaign runs from now through eBay Live! in June.

There are two ways to give:

• Donate directly to the nonprofit of your choice using PayPal, or
• Buy or sell an item through eBay Giving Works to benefit one of the charities.

eBay and PayPal are waiving all donation-related fees for transactions benefiting the three nonprofits, so you can be assured that 100% of your donation will go directly to the nonprofits of your choice.

On behalf of eBay and eBay Foundation, we appreciate the generosity of our Community, and we're proud to sponsor Community Gives, so we can join together in helping local communities around the world.

Sincerely,

Bill Barmeier,
Vice President, Global Citizenship