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Press Room

Helping Your Cause--and Your Career

by Lindsay Gellman

BEFORE AND AFTER: HOW MTV GAVE ONE NONPROFIT A MAKEOVER AND GOT SCHOOLED IN SOCIAL STORYTELLING

by Lydia Dishman

With Skills in High Demand, Retirees Volunteer Online

by Jeremy Caplan

No Apologies: Creating whole new business models, industries or marketplace opportunities

by Stuart Feil

Movement Entrepreneurs: How Today’s Social Activists Crush the Status Quo

by Sarah J. Robbins

Bright ideas: Socially conscious business

Catchafire: Connect to Volunteers and Projects You Care About

by Brooke Weinbaum

Give What You’re Good At

Inspiration Capital

by Ashok Kamal

To Catch a Fire

by Katherine Tulich

Firm matches social-good groups, skilled volunteers

by Todd Cohen

A Young Investment Banker’s Detour to Altruistic Matchmaking

Catchafire.org: A Website for Professionals Eager to Volunteer

by Richard Eisenberg

Catchafire matches talented volunteers with opportunities to serve

by Paige McClanahan

Online pro bono service organization launches Durham location

by Emily Greshes

How To Make People Enjoy Volunteering

by Chuck Salter

Who's Shaking Things Up in 2012? Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards Honorees Announced

Interview: Rachael Chong

by Claudia Chan

Catchafire Catches Interest of Nonprofits, Volunteers

by Grace Austin

Catchafire: Skills-Based Volunteer Matching

by Tory Johnson

Where To Look If Your Employer Doesn't Help You Build Your Management Skills

by Jullien Gordon

9 Digital Ways to Become a Social Good Hero in 2012

by Scott Henderson

The Future of Service in America

by Fast Company and Catchafire

Charitable giving goes high tech

by Michael B. Farrell

Volunteer service matchup company catches fire in Hub

by Donna Goodison

Volunteering Rises on the Résumé

by John Leland

For-profit Social Mission Technology Company Aims to Revolutionize the Way People Volunteer

Catchafire: The eHarmony Of Volunteering For Busy Professionals

by Ariel Schwartz

Interview with Rachael Chong

by Kim Davis

Catchafire Matches Professionals & Organizations for Virtual Pro Bono Work

by Sarah Kessler

Startups For Social Good

by Ross Reynolds

8 Startups that are Changing the World

by Jennifer Diamond

7 apps to make you feel like a better person

by Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich

Workout Playlists and iPods by the Pool

by Ann Hynek

Social Apps For Social Good: 7 Must-Have Tools For Nonprofits & Activists

by Dan Dao

Volunteer Matching Service Helps You Donate Your Professional Skills

by Sarah Kessler

Successful Start-up Stories

by Jayme Klock

WANTED: Skills to Do Good

by Jen Martin

Catchafire

by Stacy Pearson

Turning The Table On Traditional Volunteering: An Interview With Catchafire's Rachael Chong

by Kevin Asuncion

Catchafire

by Willy Franzen

Give What You're Good At

by Jessica Guberman

A New Source of Support and Inspiration for Young Entrepreneurs

by Adam Toren

Behind the Scenes with the 2011 Game Changers: Rachael Chong from Catchafire

How Crowdsourcing Is Improving Global Communities

by Erica Swallow

The Matchmaker

by Dara Meoli

Pairing Nonprofits with Professionals

Start-Up Choices in Business Models, Summing Up

by Greg Dees and Cathy Clark

Volunteer. Give Pro Bono. Help Others. It's the Right Thing to Do, and It Will Boost Your Happiness.

by Gretchen Rubin

8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn From Gotham Gal

by Mark Suster

Volunteer. Give Pro Bono. Help Others. It’s the Right Thing to Do, and It Will Boost Your Happiness

by Gretchen Rubin

Balanced Life -- Volunteer. Give Pro Bono. Help Others. It's the Right Thing to Do, and It Will Boost Your Happiness.

by Gretchen Rubin

Catchafire: Changing the Way People Volunteer

Volunteerism, Revamped

by Lynden Halpern

Mindful Moms

by Emily McKhann

Inside blogger trips: what do you share with readers?

Starting from scratch: Rubina Design's founder on building a social enterprise

by Rachel Signer

Catchafire at Google's New York City Office

by Jessica Guberman

Starting-Up - Staging Feedback for Catchafire

Splitting the Difference

by Brian Moore

Free Professional Labor for Social Enterprises?

by Tiffany Finley

In Entrepreneurship There Are No Rules Ladies

by Elmira Bayrasli

A "Match.com" for nonprofits and volunteers

by Antonio Neves

7 Millennial Entrepreneurs You Should Know About

by Michelle Arrazcaeta

Gaining experience by changing the way you volunteer through Catchafire.org

by Robert Braathe

How Catchafire is Trying to Improve Volunteering

by Christina Hernandez

Catchafire

Catchafire Matches Industry Volunteers With Nonprofits

by Rachael Chong

Mini Case Study: Catchafire pairs professionals with social change organizations

by Jen Bokoff

Cool Idea: Charging charities for volunteers

by Jenny Lee

Is there a business in charging charities for volunteers?

Young Guns: Catchafire is Catching On (video)

Young Guns: Catchafire is Catching On (text)

by Christina Scotti

Some volunteers would rather crunch numbers than haul lumber

by Bruce S. Trachtenberg

A matchmaker for nonprofits and skilled volunteers

by Anne Fisher

Volunteer and spark change with Catchafire

by Claudia Chan

A 'Match.com' for Nonprofits and Volunteers

by Antonio Neves

Choose the Perfect Charity with Catchafire

by Lynden Halpern

How social media plays into nonprofits and fundraising

by Avishay Artsy

Connecting professionals with volunteer opportunitie

by Tess Vigeland

Six of NYC's Most Interesting Women in Tech

Giving thanks, Web 2.0 style

by Laurie Segall

Sparked And Catchafire: Volunteerism Is Heating Up Online

by Kristin Ivie

Change Generation: Rachael Chong and Catchafire Match Volunteers and Nonprofits

by Shatterbox Staff

Match.com for Skilled Volunteers? Welcome to the World of Catchafire

by Kathy Ehrich Dowd

Catchafire.org Launches: This Volunteer Website Works It Real Good

Guest Post: Making Money on Making Public Goods

by Nathaniel Whittemore

Catchafire Matches Professionals to Volunteer Projects [Video]

by Amie Vaccaro

Catchafire.org

by Joanne Wilson

Start-ups: don't mention the money

by G.L.

Catchafire: Using Skills for Good Causes

Matching nonprofits' projects with professionals who can help

by Margarita Barry

Catchafire Launches Service to Match Volunteers and Non-Profits

by Audrey Watters

NYC Startup CatchAFire.org Launches Site To Match Skilled Volunteers And Charities

by Lora Kolodny

Catchafire Launches Scalable Skills-based Volunteer Matching Service

3 Reasons the "Kickstarter for Volunteering" Catchafire is a Big Deal

by Nathaniel Whittemore

Q&A with Catchafire CEO Rachael Chong and CTO Andrew Lin

by Nathaniel Whittemore

Catchafire: Connecting Nonprofits & Professionals

by JD Lasica

Rachael Chong and Jane Slusser's innovative contribution to volunteer-matching: Catchafire

by Claire McGovern

Conference Captures: Catchafire Connects Nonprofits and Volunteers with Skills

by Robert Rosenthal

How Catchafire Is Changing the Way You Volunteer - with Rachael Chong

by Olivia Khalili

Catchafire, Sparks Fly for Volunteers and Nonprofits

by Alex Monroe

HuffPost Innovators Series - Catchafire, LookTel, and More

Catchafire: A New Way to Ignite Volunteerism

by Courtney Boyd Myers

Reporting from NYC: Social Entrepreneurship Blooms

by Ruhi Shamim

Just An Online Minute... Volunteers' Skills Are The Kindling To Catchafire's Blaze

by Kelly Samardak

Catchafire Launches 2,000 Hours and Over $300,000 Worth of Volunteer Service

A New Way to Match Nonprofits With Skilled Volunteers

by Dev Aujla

Social Media for Social Change

by Irina Skaya

Three Riveting Startups You Should Know About

New Yorkers turn recession-era gloom into entrepeneurial gold

by Lore Croghan

Awards & Recognition

The 100 Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company, 2012
Judge for Talbots Scholarship Program, 2012
Judge for the Global Social Venture Competition, 2011 & 2012
Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, 2012
Fellow, NYC Venture Fellows, 2012
Finalist, Startups for Good Challenge, 2011
The Young Professionals of Museum of Chinese in American (MOCA) M88 Honorees, 2011
#1 in HuffingtonPost Innovators Series, 2010
Selected Company, Investors' Circle, 2010
Fellow, West Coast Village Capital, 2010
Winner, Duke University Start-Up Challenge Social Enterprise Track, 2009
Selected Company, InSITE, 2009
Second Place, DFJ Gotham East Coast Venture Challenge, 2009
Finalist, New York City Entrepreneur, 2009
Semifinalist, Dell Social Innovation Competition, 2009

For press inquiries, please contact press@catchafire.org.

Here you’re meeting people who have a passion for what they do... you feel you’re helping make a change. The New York Times
What amounts to an eHarmony for not-for-profits. Fast Company
The problem is, [professionals and nonprofits] have no way to connect. Enter Catchafire. NPR
An innovative for-profit company that excels in corporate and non-profit volunteer matchmaking. Forbes
The company surveyed 1,000s of people in charitable fields to derive its project descriptions. TechCrunch
You can build your resume, hone your abilities and help a worthy cause, all at the same time. Mashable
Alleviate your soul-crushing guilt by giving back. CNN
9 to 5ers who want to give back to their local community in a non-labor-intensive fashion will want to check out Catchafire. Fox Business
Helps professionals go beyond the sorting, shuffling and lugging that typifies classic volunteering. GOOD

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