![]() ![]() The movement’s core philanthropic message only gets stronger each year, with people embracing the meaning of #GivingTuesday and amplifying the holiday on social media. “As a #GivingTuesday founding partner, we are proud that the movement continues to grow with donations that help fight hunger, eliminate homelessness, cure epidemics and much more. “We are excited to see that overall donations continue to climb for organizations on #GivingTuesday,” said Mike Gianoni, Blackbaud president and CEO. The company, whose systems process a majority of online donations made in the United States on #GivingTuesday, processed more than $47.7 million from over 6700 organizations that received at least one online donation. (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, today announced a 20% increase in online giving during #GivingTuesday compared to 2015. donations and overall online donations up 31%įrom last year continuing positive trend for the growing movementĬharleston, S.C. The film will premiere first in Hong Kong and across Southeast Asia on the National Geographic Channel on Friday, June 19th HKT, followed by other regions in August.Blackbaud reports $47.7 million in online U.S. The public will have their own chance to watch the documentary when it broadcasts on National Geographic Channels across Asia, Europe and Latin America this summer. OMEGA Vice President & International Sales Director Raynald Aeschlimann and Cindy Crawford. Anyone who sees this film can see the power of what we do.” Forrest remarked, “We leave people able to provide care to their communities and change their lives. It also trains local health care professionals in some of the world’s remotest regions. Orbis International is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality eye care and treating avoidable blindness around the globe. We feel involved in what Orbis is doing.”Ĭindy Crawford and Zhang Zilin, Former Miss World. Eyesight is so important and for the people that work at OMEGA, working with an organization like Orbis gives us motivation. “This is an unbelievable film,” said Aeschlimann immediately following the screening. The first, Through Their Eyes, featured Daniel Craig who visited the Flying Eye Hospital when it was in Mongolia. It was the second film co-produced by OMEGA and Orbis International. “To share an experience like this with my daughter and to see first-hand the work that the doctors are doing was incredible.”įrom left to right Paul Forrest, Cindy Crawford, Raynald Aeschlimann and Cyrus Chow. “I have had so many opportunities to do great things, but this trip was really special,” Crawford observed. ![]() Tracing one of its journeys, The Hospital In the Sky is a 48-minute OMEGA film that documents Cindy Crawford and her daughter Kaia’s day aboard the Flying Eye Hospital in Trujillo, Peru. Orbis's Flying Eye Hospital, a specially-converted jumbo jet, is a fully-equipped mobile ophthalmic hospital and teaching facility. As the film's narrator, long-time OMEGA brand ambassador Cindy Crawford attended the event along with Raynald Aeschlimann, OMEGA Vice President & International Sales Director, Member of Swatch Group's Extended Group Management Board, and Paul Forrest, Chief Development Officer of Orbis International.
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