Giving Week

This entire week (not just Tuesday) is Giving Week: an annual holiday about spreading the giving movement. This year Giving Week coincides with the official launch of 'Makua' — the giving app.

Makua is on a mission to make giving a core part of everyone's life, and we want to be part of the movement.

This week, we are giving people $10 free to donate to a cause they care about on the Makua app when they download it using this link (currently available on iPhone): https://makua.page.link/santacruzworks

This Cali-based tech startup was founded in January of 2022 by life and business partners Amy Dugan and Forrest Skerman-Stevenson.

“Younger generations are desperate to get involved but don’t know where to start, or when they do give, it feels like they’re throwing their money into the void. Makua makes giving easy, fun, and social for digital natives”. Amy Dugan / Co-founder.

With Makua, people can explore nonprofits, get inspired to give, and easily make donations. With the social feed in the app, they can see what causes their friends’ support, work towards micro-philanthropy goals, and feel part of something bigger than themselves.

Learn more about their work at makua.com.

Happy giving!

Letter from the Founders

In January, we started building ‘Makua’, a giving app that makes donating easy, fun, and social…

With a mission to make giving a core part of everyone’s life 🫶🏽

So far we’ve…

Raised $500k in investment
Built an in-house engineering team
Partnered with influencers to spread the giving movement
Partnered with some epic nonprofits, helping them take climate action, discover disease cures, protect marine life, and educate girls in poverty

And after 11 months of nonstop hustling…

Makua is finally LIVE on the app store!

This is our first version, and we’d love to hear your feedback. We’ll be rolling out more features in the coming months.

We hope to inspire your giving journey, so here’s $10 free to donate to a cause you care about on the Makua app.

Plus, when you make your first donation, you'll be automatically entered into our monthly drop where you can win cool stuff.

See more in the app. ;)

Much love,

Amy Dugan & Forrest Skerman-Stevenson

P.S. If you had our Alpha app, delete it (cause that was the test version) and re-download Makua from the app store!

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