Name.Gives
For the good of our community, our company, and our world.
Name.Gives is a charitable giving program backed by Identity Digital that allows our employees to highlight the work of community organizations or charities that are making a positive impact in the world.
Each quarter, we award a selection of these organizations with donations to help them continue the good work they do. Since 2017, Name.com and Identity Digital have donated more than $50,000 to these local non-profit organizations.
IN OUR COMMUNITY
The Blue Bench
At The Blue Bench, our mission is to eliminate sexual assault and diminish the impact it has on individuals, their loved ones and our community through comprehensive issue advocacy, prevention and care.
Gray Muzzle Society
Gray Muzzle Society keeps pets out of shelters and with their people by providing financial support to families in need. We work to end animal suffering through support programs, adoption, education, and advocacy.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society exists because there are people with MS. Our vision is a world free of MS. Everything we do is focused so that people affected by MS can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever.
Food For Thought Denver
Food for Thought Denver strives to eliminate weekend hunger for children in the Denver area by providing food Powersacks. Doing so allows them to contribute more positively to their school environment and the communities in which they live, regardless of economic and social class. We believe that no child should go hungry.
Massachusetts General Hospital
At Mass General the brightest minds in medicine collaborate on behalf of our patients to bridge innovative science with state-of-the-art clinical medicine.
Together Rising
Together Rising transforms collective heartbreak into effective action.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver builds and sells homes to hardworking people in need of decent and affordable housing.
Unbound
Unbound partners with families living in poverty, empowering them to become self-sufficient and fulfill their desired potential.
Second Wind Fund
Second Wind Fund focuses on improving access and delivery of suicide care. Their unique program provides an avenue for families to obtain actual treatment services for children and youth at risk for suicide by breaking down financial and transportation barriers.
Wikimedia Foundation
The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge. They host Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, created, edited, and verified by volunteers around the world, as well as many other vital community projects.
Joy as Resistance
Joy as Resistance is dedicated to promoting hope and joy for LGBTQIA2+ youth ages 10-24 in the Denver Metro area. They offer mental health counseling services for youth and their families, mentorship through their program, Big Queer, Little Queer, and a variety of consultation and professional development services via their school and non-profit partnerships.
The Center on Colfax
The Center on Colfax is a safe and welcoming place for Colorado's proud, diverse LGBTQ community. When you visit their space, you'll be affirmed and accepted, heard and understood.
Boulder County Wildfire Fund
On December 30th, 2021 multiple fires broke out across Boulder County. More than 35,000 people were evacuated and almost 1,000 structures were destroyed. The Wildfire Fund is distributing $5M in financial assistance to those whose homes have been destroyed or damaged and an additional $500K to support the needs of evacuees from this fund.
Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae Farm Village
Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae is a village of 250 people living unhoused on the leeward side of Oʻahu. A majority of residents are Native Hawaiians. POW Farm Village will provide permanent homes for 250 people. Structures include communal bathrooms and kitchens, and a gathering hall or Hale Hālāwai surrounded by clusters of modest homes.
Denver South High School Pomline
Name.com is proud to support the founding of Denver South High School Pom Squad by helping with the purchase of uniforms and equipment.
Open Insulin Foundation
The Open Insulin Foundation is a non-profit creating the means for communities in-need to have local sources of safe, affordable, high-quality insulin.
St Lucia Animal Protection Society
The mission of the St Lucia Animal Protection Society is to help improve the welfare of the island’s animal population, provide education on the humane treatment of animals, work with local veterinarians to raise awareness of the need to spay and neuter dogs and cats; to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home as many stray and abandoned dogs and cats as possible.
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Our communities stand united against racism. Hate against Asian American Pacific Islander communities has risen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, we can stop it.
MAMCO Rescue
The mission at MAMCO is to provide shelter for pregnant and nursing dogs who have been surrendered or abandoned in Colorado and surrounding states.
Lu Birds Light
There are over 74,000 kids with disabilities in Colorado and most playgrounds do not give these children an opportunity to experience the fun and joy of being outdoors with their peers. LuBird’s Light Foundation builds extraordinary, one of a kind inclusive playgrounds for children and families of all needs and enhance existing playgrounds throughout the Denver Metro area.
CMDA The Colorado Society for Post-acute and Long-term Care Medicine
CMDA The Colorado Society for Post-acute and Long-term Care Medicine is organized for the benefit of and to provide support and education of medical directors, providers, nursing home administrators and directors of nursing concerning the provision of long term care.
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
The Mission of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of homelessness throughout Colorado.
Urban Peak
Founded in 1988, Urban Peak is the only non-profit organization in Denver that provides a full convergence of services for youth ages 15 through 24 experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Our goal is to help these youth overcome real life challenges and become self-sufficient adults.
Moonshot edVentures
Moonshot edVentures is leading the education revolution in Metro Denver. We build the pipeline of diverse leaders to design and launch the learning environments of tomorrow.
The Tech Pals
Our primary mission is to bring seniors and everyone together with technology. Tech Pals believes a basic understanding of technology is a fundamental right, not a privilege. We strive to reduce social isolation and frustration and aim to make seniors and everyone more independent and help them to maintain their dignity and improve the quality of their life throughout the aging process.
From Roots to Wings
With the help of our supporters, we are now able to provide education for ten children with the plan to follow them through their educational career. We have also been able to expand into other areas of community development including a yoga program, sex education, a female empowerment program, a mentorship program, and an income development program.
Denver Scholarship Foundation
The Denver Scholarship Foundation inspires and empowers Denver Public Schools’ students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education, by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources essential for success.
Techstars Foundation
The Techstars Foundation vision is to stimulate innovation and positive social and economic global change through empowering underrepresented communities and entrepreneurs.
Black Lives Matter 5280
Black Lives Matter 5280 assists in building more loving and united Black communities while eliminating anti-Black violence and racism.
International Association for Premenstrual Disorders
International Association for Premenstrual Disorders mission is to inspire hope and end suffering for those affected by premenstrual disorders through peer support, education, research and advocacy.
Freedom Service Dogs
At Freedom Service Dogs, we unleash the potential of dogs by transforming them into custom-trained, life-changing assistance dogs for people in need. Since 1987, FSD has graduated hundreds of client-dog teams. Dogs that are not suitable for service dog work—or “career change” dogs, as we lovingly refer to them— are adopted into forever homes.
Frontline Farming
FrontLine Farming a food and farmers advocacy group focusing on food growing, education, sovereignty and justice.
Community Ministry
The CMSWD mission is to meet the basic needs of qualified people in Southwest Denver who are experiencing economic hardships and related problems.
AIDS/LifeCycle
AIDS/LifeCycle is a fully-supported, seven-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Project Voyce
At Project VOYCE, we believe that youth must be engaged as partners in their own development and the development of their communities--our motto is “nothing about us, without us.” Project VOYCE is Denver's most authentic youth-driven leadership and advocacy training hub.
Odyssey School of Denver
Odyssey is a model Expeditionary Learning school, taking our students on project-based expeditions that support in-depth study and comprehension across all disciplines: reading, writing, mathematics and science, as well as the development of core "Habits of a Learner" that transform our students into active stewards of their own learning.
York Area Down Syndrome Association
York Area Down Syndrome Association (YADSA) is a non-profit organization that provides support to families with children and adults with disabilities with a primary focus on individuals with Down syndrome.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Inc.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains – which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Southern Nevada, and Wyoming – has been empowering individuals to make responsible choices for over 100 years.
ISAAC Foundation
Enhancing the lives of your friends and family touched by autism and other special needs through educational, emotional and financial support programs.
World Denver
WorldDenver is a non-profit community organization dedicated to understanding world affairs and cultures. WorldDenver brings about 600 international visitors to Denver annually through a partnership with the U.S. State Department.
The Bridge Project
The mission of The Bridge Project is to provide a path for youth in Denver's public housing neighborhoods to graduate from high school and go on to attend college or choose a vocation by engaging them in educational opportunities and facilitating the development of life skills and self-sufficiency.
The LAM Foundation
The LAM Foundation urgently seeks safe and effective treatments, and ultimately a cure, for lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) through advocacy and the funding of promising research.
Chinook Fund
Chinook Fund supports grassroots organizations working on issues of social and economic justice; by pooling our collective resources, we seed groups making a positive, systemic impact to improve the quality of life for all Coloradans.
NAMI
NAMI Colorado provides advocacy, education, and support to individuals of all ages and to families impacted by serious and persistent mental illness.
Partners in Literacy
Partners in Literacy is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to creating communities of readers in schools.
Haven Youth Project
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Mental Health America
Mental Health America (MHA) – founded in 1909 – is the nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all Americans.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Light The Night
Light The Night is a series of fundraising campaigns benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) funding of research to find blood cancer cures. We bring hope instead of despair by working to ensure access to treatments for all blood cancer patients. We bring communities together to celebrate those who are fighting the disease and to honor those we have lost.
Friends of Guéoul
Friends of Guéoul supports young girls who, for financial reasons, are at risk for leaving schooling at a very young age. Our scholarships buys them time to be children and extra years of education which benefit them, their families and their future children.
Bright Focus Foundation
The BrightFocus Foundation supports research in Glaucoma, Alzheimer's Disease, and Macular Degeneration.
Honduras Educational Development Assistance Corp
HEDAC works with communities to jointly impact the advancement of education of the children in their respective communities.
Friends of Paha
Friends of Paha (FOP) is a non-profit organization comprised solely of volunteers with the goal of raising funds to help financially support Camp Paha. Camp Paha and Paha Adults in Transition are the CIty of Lakewood's summer day programs for youth and young adults with disabilities.
Star Institute
STAR Institute is the premier treatment, research and education center for children and adults with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). This includes feeding disorders and other disorders with sensory issues such as autism and ADHD.
Maxfund
Maxfund was created with the goal of saving injured animals that do not have owners then taking steps to find forever homes for the animals
Partners in Health
Partners in Health brings the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need, in a way that helps to create sustainable solutions for global epidemics. They establish long-term relationships with sister organizations in communities across the world and solve medical issues by giving people the training and resources they need to combat illness.
Project Angel Heart
Project Angel Heart delivers meals to Coloradans living with life-threatening illnesses. Many are too sick to get to the grocery store, have to choose between buying food or medication, or are too weak to make themselves or their dependents a meal. Project Angel Heart delivers bags of food to these individuals each week, giving them nutrition they need to get stronger and remain independent in their homes.
Denver Zine Library
The Denver Zine Library is an organization run entirely by volunteers that has a lending collection of around 20,000 zines. They run workshops, organize a yearly festival to educate people about the importance of self-published magazines, and give those who feel they do not have a voice an outlet with which to inspire and empower others.
SafeHouse Denver
SafeHouse Denver provides a safe asylum for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. They offer emergency shelter for women and children who are escaping abuse and free counseling services for survivors. Our donation helped to provide basic necessities like clothing, toiletries, office supplies, and more to women and children in need
Special Olympics Denver Swim Team
Even though the Special Olympics is a big organization, local athletes across the nation still need community support to thrive. When the Denver-based swim team was unable to afford matching uniforms for the team, we stepped in to equip them with new matching gear for competitions.
Rangeview Track and Field
The Rangeview Track and Field team’s uniforms were old and different sets had to be pieced together to outfit the team. Our donation equipped around 50 young women on the Girls JV and Varsity teams with new uniforms. We also helped fund a new shelter for track meets.
Metro Caring
Metro Caring works to feed people but also helps prevent hunger by teaching people nutrition, cooking, and financial literacy. Our donation went towards general upkeep costs to help keep the organization running.
Northfield High School Solar Rollers Team
The Solar Rollers club is a group of science and engineering students that build a remote controlled solar-powered car from scratch and race it around a track against other schools. They learn about solar power, electrical engineering, aeronautic design, and other STEM topics through real-world application. The donation funded the supplies and materials needed to build a solar-powered vehicle.
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Austin Children's Shelter
Here's what we did at the huge music/film/tech festival South by Southwest in Austin, TX. With our High Five Guy attached to a digital counter, we racked up the high fives and the donations for the Austin Children's Shelter.
Coach Karl and Cancer
He's one of the most successful coaches in NBA history, but it's Coach George Karl's take on life that's the biggest victory. We joined forces with the Colorado Cancer Coalition to raise money and awareness with their Check Off Colorado campaign...and got this interview with one of the more enlightened people we've met.
Claire's Bears
We were lucky enough to meet a Denver family that works with Step Up for Down Syndrome. Sid and Sue Kemp have devoted their lives to educate others about their incredible journey with their daughter, Claire. Here's their story.
The Pixel Project
The Pixel Project is an innovative virtual volunteer-led non profit organization that uses social media and online strategies to turbo-charge global awareness about violence against women while raising funds and volunteer power for the cause. Name.com is proud to support the Pixel Project and encourages you to become involved too!
Semper Fi Fund
Name.com made a donation in Nick Hoffmman's name to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. The Semper Fi Fund is a nonprofit that provides financial support for injured and critically ill members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families. The program provides support in a variety of different ways including service member and family support, specialized and adaptive equipment, adaptive housing, adaptive transportation, education and career transition assistance, and the therapeutic arts. Name.com is proud to support our American hero’s who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
Nuba Water Project
The mission of the Nuba Water Project is to help the Nuba people by providing sustainable sources of clean water. Scarce water supplies have been a problem that has plagued the people of the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan for ages. Rather than just delivering a hand out, The Nuba Water Project relies on the Nuba peoples’ spirit of independence, resourcefulness, and hard work to help create economically sound, self-sustaining water projects. We here at Name.com believe everyone on this earth deserves access to clean water. We were happy to help out this non-profit and encourage you to do the same!
Ozarks Honor Flight
Ozarks Honor Flight is a non-profit organization, founded in October 2009, in Springfield, Missouri. The founding members have assembled the talents and commitment of a group of people who share their love and respect for our veterans. These dedicated people are working to deliver on the promise of Honor Flight. Their mission is to transport, in the safest and most timely means possible, military veterans of World War II to Washington DC to view their World War II Memorial and other commemorative sites with the highest degree of honor, respect and gratitude at no cost to the veteran.
The Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer's Association is the leading, global voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care and support. It is also the largest private, nonprofit funder of Alzheimer research. Their vision is a world without Alzheimer’s, and since their founding in 1980, they've moved toward this goal by advancing research and providing support, information and education to those affected by Alzheimer’s and related dementias. The Colorado chapter is one of over 70 alzheimer's association chapters serving communities across the United States.
The Tour de Cure
We love bikes and we love doing our part to help a good cause! The tour de cure is a nation-wide ride that benefits the American Diabetes Association. The Colorado chapter is one of the biggest in the country and Name.com was proud to have a team participate in the event! Decked out in snazzy Name.com jerseys, we came, we saw, we conquered the tour de cure!
Girls in tech
Name.com loves giving back to the community, and as an internet company, Name.com strongly believes in supporting the local tech scene by sponsoring and participating in events in the Denver/Boulder area. With a number of talented women on staff, Name.com feels it's extremely important to support events focused on women in the tech community. Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent, and influential women in technology. Founded in February of 2007 by Adriana Gascoigne, GIT was born out of a need to provide a place for women to cultivate ideas around their careers and business concepts involving technology. The Colorado chapter was formed in January of 2010 by Kate Brown.
The British Heart Foundation
The British Heart Foundation is the UK's heart charity. Every day The British Heart Foundation save lives, through pioneering research, providing vital information to help people reduce their own heart health risks, campaigning for change and supporting and caring for heart patients.
Colorado Prevention Center
The Colorado Prevention Center or CPC is a not-for-profit medical research and disease prevention center. In association with University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Denver Health, and National Jewish Medical and Research Center, the Colorado Prevention Center is dedicated to improving health through clinical research and integrating scientific evidence into community prevention programs. Through the Colorado Heart Healthy Solutions Program the Colorado Prevention Center works to identify at-risk individuals at local events where free cardiovascular disease screenings, such as finger-stick cholesterol testing, blood pressure and blood glucose levels, will be provided.
Advocates for children
The Colorado Prevention Center or CPC is a not-for-profit medical research and disease prevention center. In association with University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Denver Health, and National Jewish Medical and Research Center, the Colorado Prevention Center is dedicated to improving health through clinical research and integrating scientific evidence into community prevention programs. Through the Colorado Heart Healthy Solutions Program the Colorado Prevention Center works to identify at-risk individuals at local events where free cardiovascular disease screenings, such as finger-stick cholesterol testing, blood pressure and blood glucose levels, will be provided.
Denver, walk for ms
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society supports research to help treat and cure this unpredictable disease. The organization also funds programs to address the needs of people living with Multiple sclerosis today. MS, a chronic and often disabling disease, is currently without a cure. Worldwide, the disease is thought to affect more than 2.5 million people.
Susan G. Komen
This year, Jim Grace, from DomainSponsor.com, completed a 5k in the bright LA sunshine. Why? To support the international nonprofit, Susan G. Komen, which provides funding for breast cancer research and programs that support medically under-served women. In the last 11 years, the LA County Affiliate has distributed nearly $6 million to local organizations providing breast cancer services.
Women For Women International
Women For Women International helps women survivors of war and civil strife regain stability and self-sufficiency. Women begin in a Sponsorship Program to alleviate the immediate effects of conflict such as lack of water, food and medicine. The second stage of recovery, the ReneWLS Program, provides women with education on rights-awareness, leadership and technical training. Empowered by new job skills and comprehensive business assistance, women become self-sufficient and able to make valuable contributions their community. Through 14 years of helping socially excluded women, Women for Women has learned that stronger women build stronger nations. Since 1993, the nonprofit 501 (c) (3) has distributed $33 million in direct aid and microcredit loans and helped over 120,000 women survivors.
Easter Seals
Easter Seals helps adults and children with disabilities lead better lives. For more than eighty years, staff members and hundreds of volunteers have worked to make positive changes for persons with special needs. Former volunteer, Scott McBreen (yes, Name.com's nearest and dearest) says, "This organization does tremendous work for the common good." The non-profit focuses on improving physical mobility, enabling individuals to return to work and simply allowing them to gain greater independence. Today, Easter Seals helps more than one million individuals annually through a nationwide network of more than 450 service sites.
Philippine Children's Fund of America
Steve Pelaez has chosen to dedicate his Olympic pursuit to the Philippine Children's Fund of America. By pedaling to qualify for the '08 Beijing Olympics in track cycling, Pelaez aspires to make a difference in the lives of impoverished children. Pelaez, who left the Philippines at the age of thirteen, explains: "Throughout my life, I've often wondered why I was so fortunate, able to live the American dream." Now he has a chance to look back and give back.
Love146.org
Love146.org works toward the abolition of child sex trafficking and exploitation, through aftercare, advocacy and prevention. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 1.2 million children are trafficked annually. This is equivalent to two children every one minute. The physical, mental and emotional trauma of these children requires attention -- which is why Love146 trains aftercare workers and multiplies safe homes. The registered public charity also aids socioeconomic development programs in high risk communities and helps direct awareness to this quiet tragedy.
Environment Colorado
Environment Colorado protects clean air, clean water and open spaces statewide. Combining independent research, passion and persistence, this citizen-based organization uses tough-minded advocacy on local, national and state levels. Global warming. Renewable energy. State legislature. Environment Colorado deals with a wide range of issues to keep our rocky ranges pristine.
Who is behind these donations? We are an eclectic group of visionaries and go-getters, idealists and perfectionists, task masters, and project people. We believe in working with dedication, inspiration, and innovation. For the sake of karma, mojo, and the good of giving, we do whatever we can for the betterment of the earth and the internet.
Are you passionate about a worthy cause that you think we'll be interested in? Please email: good@name.com