Notes: MissionFish helps you support your favorite causes through trading on eBay! Since 2000, we've been providing our technology, tools and support to thousands of organizations and donors, and raised millions of dollars through online auctions. MissionFish is the exclusive charity solution provider for eBay Giving Works, and a service of the Points of Light Foundation.

In 2003, eBay invited us to build a solution that would offer their millions of users an easy way to support favorite causes through trading in the World's Online Marketplace�. The service that MissionFish provides is a safe and easy way to do just that!

Our Name
We hope you like our name. We think it's fun and that it reflects the personalities of our team. But "MissionFish" also means something - it's a combination of two ideas we have about supporting nonprofits.

We think that the organizations doing good should be able to focus more on their missions, and less on keeping their doors open. "Mission" is part of our name because we want everything we do to have a direct impact on the missions of our nonprofits.

We also think that the lack of consistent, unrestricted revenue keeps many nonprofits from building infrastructure that is essential to their success. The "Fish" in our name borrows from an analogy by Share Our Strength founder Bill Shore. Rather than "giving fish" to keep an organization running, or even "teaching them to fish" for themselves, he says that what's needed is to build "fisheries" that can sustain a nonprofit's work in a significant, ongoing way. We believe that MissionFish can be a Fishery - producing unrestricted, consistent revenue for any nonprofit, allowing them to do more good.

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