We make your job easier
Greater Giving works exclusively with schools and nonprofits across the nation — offering integrated technologies to help simplify event management; quickly train volunteers; streamline check-in and check-out; and raise more funds. Greater Giving solutions are based on a single platform, are user-friendly, and will simplify your job.
About Us
We take pride in our tenured staff and diverse partners, experienced in supporting our 10K+ nonprofit customers and 50K+ events around the nation.
Our Client Services team provides unlimited support with training classes, videos and resources; and ongoing phone, email, and live chat coverage. We’re here for you during your event—no matter what day or time it takes place.
The Professional Event Support team is available if you need onsite expertise. They will train your staff and volunteers on bidding, registration and check-out—ensuring everyone is prepared when your guests arrive.
Greater Giving Partners include over 100 professional benefit auctioneers, event planners & consultants, and technology services to choose from—with our stamp of approval. Built on a foundation of trust and through leadership, Greater Giving’s extensive community reach is unparalleled in the industry.
We give back to nonprofits with ongoing educational resources and webinars; fundraising guides; engaging social media and blog posts; LinkedIn and Facebook user groups; our Thought Leadership Summit and Giving Tuesday campaign.
Our History
It all started with a long checkout line...
In 2002, at a community fundraising event in Portland, Oregon, Jeff Jetton was waiting to check-out of the event’s benefit auction. Frustrated by the wait, Jeff began to consider ways to shorten benefit auction check-out lines and so Auctionpay, Inc. was born. In October 2009, Auctionpay was acquired by Global Payments Inc. (Service. Driven. Commerce.), and in January 2010 took another step in its evolution, becoming Greater Giving.
Our Management Team
Sid Singh
President, Integrated Solutions
Sid Singh serves as President, Integrated solutions and leads Greater Giving. Prior to this, Sid served as Global Head of Payment Products for GPN, where he was responsible for the company’s worldwide product development and management strategy.
Sid is a frequent speaker at payment industry events, where he brings global insight. He serves on the FinTech Steering Committee of the Technology Association of Georgia [TAG], and has served as a board director for Comercia, GPN’s joint venture with Caixa Bank in Spain. He received a master’s degree in business administration with a dual specialization in Marketing and Information Systems. He also holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree.
He is a co-founding member of a charitable foundation, RKM Trust, which focuses on providing primary and vocational education for the economically challenged in Sid’s former home country, India. This foundation has improved the lives of more than 7,500 bright young children and women in need of education by helping them become economically independent.
Mark Wehrmeister
Vice President of Technology and Operations
Mark joined Greater Giving in July 2013 as Vice President of Technology and Operations. He brings over 25 years of leadership experience in strategic technology planning, development, and operations across diverse multinational industries in both private and public enterprises.
Prior to joining Greater Giving, Mark was Director of Web Strategy for PeaceHealth, a large nonprofit healthcare system. Before that he was an independent strategic technology management consultant working with Virtual Information Executives (VIE). Mark began his career in Aerospace where he held several engineering positions, after earning an MBA in Finance from San Diego State University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Mark is a Board member for the Society for Information Management (SIM) Portland Chapter and a member of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN).
James Balazs
Vice President, Business Analysis and Support
James has over 15 years of corporate finance experience. He started his career as a senior auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers, moving from there to controller roles at software companies Summit Design, Inc., and First Insight, Inc. James then expanded his expertise as an independent consultant, with PricewaterhouseCoopers and World Oil Company among his clients before joining Greater Giving in 2004.
Matthew Craven
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Matthew Craven has over ten years of sales and management experience. Prior to joining Greater Giving in 2006, he held various sales positions at Pitney Bowes, including Account Executive, Field Sales Manager and Area Sales Manager; and upon his departure he was a Senior Area Sales Manager for the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose.
Prior to Pitney Bowes, Matthew was a founding partner in Student Safaris International, a community service and adventure travel program for high school students that won the AT&T Innovative Small Business award in 1999. He currently serves on the Ambassadors Board of Friends of the Children, a Portland, OR, nonprofit.
David Hagland
Director of Infrastructure
For over 20 years, David Hagland has designed enterprise class networking and computing environments for companies such as Intel, Tektronix, and Komatsu Electronic Metals. His experience includes voice over IP (VOIP) networks, large-scale server farms and quality assurance environments.
Early in his career, David focused on building customized computing solutions to meet specific high-demand requirements, including technology manufacturing lines and clean rooms. Prior to joining Greater Giving, David was the Director of Information Technology for eFusion, where he helped to pioneer the first customer service oriented VOIP portal solution.
Jill Boyer
Director of Marketing
Jill joined the Greater Giving team over 10 years ago as Event Services Manager; bringing her experience with event planning, marketing, sales coordination and account management from senior positions at Grand European Tours, and the Benson and Hilton hotels. She was hired as Product Marketing Manager in 2008 and promoted to Senior Marketing Manager in 2011; using her deep product knowledge and understanding of fundraising challenges to communicate the value of Greater Giving solutions to nonprofits.
Jill earned a BA in English, with a minor in Fine Arts at Oregon State University. She has also completed certifications in training and design from Portland State University, and product marketing from Pragmatic Marketing. She is passionate about volunteering and yoga, and is a certified volunteer instructor who teaches family yoga.
Organizations Jill is involved with: Street Yoga, Impact NW, SMART, SEI, The Dougy Center, Dove Lewis, OR Food Bank, Canine Companions and Friends of the Orphans.
Angie Fallows
Director of Client Services
Angie joined Greater Giving with over 20 successful years developing and delivering business strategy, scalable structure and processes, and customer retention and growth initiatives in highly diverse industries. She has built and led teams that span everything from customer onboarding and strategic account management to professional services and technical support. Angie has joined our team to drive customer loyalty while designing operations that encourage onboarding, adoption and retention.
Prior to joining Greater Giving Angie was Vice President of Customer Success for DiscoverOrg and Janrain, both best in class SaaS companies where she built and led high performing global service delivery and customer support teams.
PCI Secure Transactions
Greater Giving goes beyond standard practice by complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, protecting your donors’ payment data after the transaction has been processed.
Our technology and processes are reviewed regularly and undergo an annual audit by a PCI- accredited 3rd party to ensure PCI compliance. Greater Giving is a Level 1 vendor, the highest, most secure level of PCI compliance.
Find Greater Giving listed as PCI DSS validated provider on the Visa Global Registry of Service Providers
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