As members of a young startup ourselves, we here at GiveForward always love to see other new companies doing well. It’s especially cool when we find out about these companies through their use of our site, as is the case with Wishadoo!, an exciting free service that enables its users to connect with others to help people fulfill their wishes.

Despite its newness on the scene, Wishadoo! has already had one successful fundraiser on our site, with Teeth for Rocky bringing in nearly $1,800. The ongoing Dental Services for MagickMuffin fundraiser also appears to be headed for success, and the Wishadoo! group page has already raised more then $2,200.

Wishadoo! founder Dena Patrick likes to call her site “a CraigsList of Compassion,” and we love that because we are totally enamored with anything and everything CraigsList these days. So far, Dena seems to be pretty enamored with GiveForward too, so everybody wins.

“I searched for over a year, looking for a good symbiotic partner of sorts for Wishadoo! community members to use when fundraising is needed,” Dena says. “GiveForward met all the criteria I was searching for, and the platform has worked beautifully thus far. I also appreciate [GiveForward’s] mission, as it’s very much in alignment with that of Wishadoo!, which is also a social entrepreneurial venture. Indeed, both are about providing tools in order to create and empower communities in a variety of ways [and] with integrity.”

As many of you already know, GiveForward had the honor of participating in this summer’s Excelerate Labs technology incubator program. On August 31, all the companies in the program gathered at the House of Blues in Chicago to pitch their business plans to more than 200 potential investors. To use a cliché, make a confusing sports pun, and give you an honest recap all at once, our pitch was a home run. read more…