Making a Donation

Find a project that you like.

Have a good look at the projects already created, read the descriptions, and do your homework!

You can browse projects through different categories and sort them by GIVpower rank or other options.

Once you find a project you would like to donate to, hit the DONATE button.

Crypto Donations

Projects accept ETH and a wide variety of ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum Mainnet, Gnosis Chain, Polygon, Celo, Optimism and Ethereum Classic allowing for donations with different tokens within these networks.

See a full list of the accepted tokens

Mainnet Tokens Accepted

• ETH
• 1inch Token (1INCH)
• Ankr Network (ANKR)
• Balancer (BAL)
• Lido Staked Ether (STETH)
• Rocket Pool Ether (rETH)
• Beefy.Finance (BIFI)
• ChainLink Token (LINK)
• Compound (COMP)
• DAI Stablecoin (DAI)
• Frax (FRAX)
• Lido DAO Token (LDO)
• Alchemix (ALCX)
• Audius (AUDIO)
• Tether USD (USDT)
• The Sandbox (SAND)
• TrueUSD (TUSD)
• Uniswap (UNI)
• Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)
• Wrapped Ether (WETH)
• Wrapped Matic (WMATIC)
• Cosmos (ATOM)
• Glo Dollar (USDGLO)
• Quickswap Token (QUICK)
• Paxos Standard (PAX)
• Bankless DAO (BANK)
• Bancor (BNT)
• Axie Infinity (AXS)
• BrightId (BRIGHT)
• Giveth Token (GIV)
• Basic Attention Token (BAT)
• Crypto.com Coin (CRO)
• CultDAO (CULT)
• Decentraland (MANA)
• Enjin Coin (ENJ)

Gnosis Chain Tokens Accepted

• XDAI
• Giveth Token (GIV)
• Wrapped Ether on xDAI (WETH)
• Gnosis (GNO)
• Agave Token (AGVE)
• Rocket Pool (RPL)
• Savings xDAI (sDAI)
• Bright on xDAI (BRIGHT)
• ChainLink Token on xDAI (LINK)
• Curve DAO Token (CRV)
• DAOhaus (HAUS)
• dAppNode on xDAI (XNODE)
• Fox Token (FOX)
• Honey (HNY)
• Moons on xDAI (xMOON)
• Panvala (PAN)
• STAKE on xDAI (STAKE)
• Tether USD on xDAI (USDT)
• Wrapped Bitcoin on xDAI (WBTC)
• Wrapped xDAI (WXDAI)
• xDAI Native Comb (XCOMB)
• Token Engineering Commons (TEC)
• USD Coin on xDAI (USDC)

Polygon Tokens Accepted

• MATIC
• Aave (AAVE)
• agEUR (agEUR)
• Lido DAO Token (LDO)
• Ankr (ANKR)
• Balancer (BAL)
• Beefy.Finance (BIFI)
• ChainLink Token (LINK)
• Cosmos (ATOM)
• Curve Finance (CRV)
• DAI Stablecoin (DAI)
• Frax (FRAX)
• Lido DAO Token (LDO)
• Mai Finance (MIMATIC)
• Staked MATIC (stMATIC)
• Tether USD (USDT)
• The Sandbox (SAND)
• TrueUSD (TUSD)
• Uniswap (UNI)
• Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)
• Wrapped Ether (WETH)
• Wrapped Matic (WMATIC)
• Cosmos (ATOM)
• Glo Dollar (USDGLO)
• Quickswap Token (QUICK)
• Paxos Gold (PAXG)

Celo Tokens Accepted

• Celo Native (CELO)
• Celo Brazilian Real (cREAL)
• Celo Dollar (cUSD)
• Celo Euro (cEUR)
• Giveth Token (GIV)
• Glo Dollar (USDGLO)

Optimism Tokens Accepted

• ETH
• Wrapped Ether (WETH)
• Optimistic (OP)
• Dai (DAI)
• Tether (USDT)
• Lido DAO Token (LDO)
• Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)
• ChainLink (LINK)
• Synthetix Network (SNX)
• Glo Dollar (USDGLO)
• Giveth Token (GIV)
• USD Coin (USDC)
• Rocket Pool Ether (rETH)
• Velodrome Finance (VELO)

Ethereum Classic Tokens Accepted

• ETC Native Token (ETC)
• HEBE (HEBE)
• Wrapped ETC Token (WETC)

Choose the amount of cryptocurrency you would like to donate. Once you've entered the amount, you can click on DONATE, at which point your wallet will prompt you to validate the transaction. If you would like to use a different wallet than the one you used to sign into your account, click on change wallet in the drop down menu in the top right of the homepage.

Switching Networks

In order to switch networks, go to your profile name in the top right corner, click for the drop down menu, and select switch network.

Now you can select your preferred chain to make the donation.

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Bear in mind some projects will only accepts donations on certain networks. You might get a warning if you are connected to a network that the project does not accept donations on.

When the transaction has been signed off and processed, you're done! Nice work! You'll be taken to the confirmation page, and you can track the transaction details by following the link on the page.

Take a look at our Donor Onboarding Guide to get a better idea of how to use the platform for donations.

Step by step instructions for donating via Metamask can be found here.