GIVEN was a very unique experience for the Evisua team, Evisua attended an event called Launch 48 where ideas were pitched to a few hundred individuals of varying skill sets and then voted upon, the best 6 would be worked on and delivered in less than 48 hours. GIVEN was one of these, pitched by Lucian Tanowski of BraveNewTalent.com and worked on by Gavin Weeks and Sam Mathews of Evisua. Evisua were able to define the concepts brand, its usage, styleguide, the website for displaying and the interface for the Facebook app. The app itself was worked on by Alon Azar of BraveNewTalent, Ben Hall and Mark Fullbrook two very talented web developers.
So what is GIVEN?
GIVEN helps companies find and support people’s causes on Facebook.
It gives companies the ability to publicly sponsor fund raising initiatives – whether they are being led by employees, fans or customers. This offers companies a new way to engage with people on Facebook and support worthwhile causes.
For fundraisers GIVEN offers a whole new world of potential sponsors beyond their existing network of family and friends. GIVEN helps people raise money from over 20,000 companies that currently have a presence on Facebook. GIVEN was created in 48 hours by 20 social adventurers for http://www.Launch48.com
GIVEN will be launching the Facebook app before the end of October 2009. Check out http://www.given.org to see what we have done.
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