The GiveGab Team

Our mission is more happy nonprofits!

Our Story

At GiveGab, our goal is to make the lives of nonprofit fundraising professionals easier. We do this by providing our customers with a product they love, helping them engage supporters, and being the partner they deserve. Everything we set out to do is with the intent to remove as many barriers to fulfilling your important mission as possible.

In 2011, we began as a social platform to help nonprofits and volunteers connect. After working closely with nonprofits for three years, we realized that people were looking for innovative ways to acquire new supporters and engage them in their mission. A crucial piece to fulfilling this synergistic relationship between donors and organizations is through providing easy-to-use online fundraising tools.

From the beginning, GiveGab has focused on establishing the best customer success team in the industry who works closely with the product team and is there for you every step of the way. The Result? An affordable, easy-to-use, secure, attractive, and customized way to engage with your supporters, raise funds online, organize volunteers, and manage your data, all with superior customer care that ensures your happiness and success!

Charlie and Aaron, Co-Founders of GiveGab

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The Executive Team

Charlie

CEO, Co-Founder

Aaron

COO, VP of Tech, Co-Founder

Chris

CFO

GiveGab's Board

Charlie Mulligan CEO and Co-Founder

Charlie Mulligan has served as the Chairman of the GiveGab board of directors since it was formed in March 2013. He has 30+ years experience in entrepreneurship, leadership, technology, and sales and has spoken internationally on volunteering, volunteer motivation, and entrepreneurship. As both an active volunteer and volunteer manager, Mulligan understands the challenges and interactions of volunteers, nonprofit groups, businesses, and schools. He founded GiveGab as a means to help volunteers and organizations connect, engage, achieve, and celebrate in a fun and effective online environment.

GiveGab is Mulligan’s second start-up and third time running a growing organization. Charlie has a BA in Business/Marketing from Penn State and an MBA from Cornell.

Aaron Godert COO, VP of Tech, and Co-Founder

Aaron has served as a member on the GiveGab board of directors representing the common stockholders since its inception in March 2013. He is an entrepreneur and technical leader with over 17 years of experience across a wide breadth of industries including consumer, social, nonprofit, higher-ed, banking, and consulting. Aaron’s background is in architecting, developing, and integrating large-scale distributed software systems. He has served on the board of directors and fundraising committees for a number of nonprofits, including his current position as President of the Cornell Club of Ithaca.

Aaron was selected to serve on GiveGab’s board of directors because of the perspective and experience he brings as one of the founders and as one of the largest stockholders, as well as his extensive experience with operations and managing technology organizations.

Aaron received his MBA from Cornell University, MEng in Computer Science from Cornell University, and BS in Computer Science from Canisius College.

Jennifer Tegan President of Upstate Venture Association of New York (UVANY)

Jennifer is a founding member of the GiveGab Board of Directors, which was formed in March, 2013. Prior to her current position at UVANY, she served as Partner and VP Finance/Administration at Cayuga Venture Fund, where she had been for over a decade.

Jennifer also previously served as Director of Allworx prior to its sale to Paetec. She has served in various management and advisory roles for multiple small businesses and nonprofits including an optical coating manufacturer and a natural history museum. Jennifer is an active member of the community and serves on the Tompkins Cortland Community College Foundation Board, the Board of Tompkins County Area Development, the Board of Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca, the Advisory Board of the Ithaca College School of Business. The combination of Jennifer’s commitment to and engagement within her community, as well as her support of high tech start-up businesses, made her a natural fit for the GiveGab board of directors.

Jennifer earned BA and MS degrees in Geology from Smith College and the University of Cincinnati, respectively, and an MBA from Cornell University.

Hunter Rawlings Former President of Cornell University

Hunter joined the GiveGab board of directors in December of 2013. Rawlings served as president of Cornell University from 1995 to 2003 and interim President between 2005 and 2006 and from 2016-2017. He also served as president of the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1995 and was president of the Association of American Universities from 2011 to 2016.

A national spokesperson for higher education, Rawlings has been chair of both the Association of American Universities and the Ivy Council of Presidents. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he serves on the boards of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the National Academy Foundation. He brings a wealth of higher education, government relations and philanthropic experience and connections to the GiveGab board of directors.

Rawlings graduated from Haverford College, with honors in classics, and received his Ph.D. degree, also in classics, from Princeton University. His scholarly publications include a book, The Structure of Thucydides’ History (Princeton University Press, 1981).