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History

The site was co-founded by Notre Dame graduates

and Gaby Montero. Exhausted by the negativity of the media, they created GivesMeHope. The two refer to the site as "Chicken Soup for the Soul – the 21st Century, Twitter-style version." GivesMeHope has inspired movements of hope across the country. At Henry M. Gunn high school in Palo Alto, California, four students committed suicide in a period of 8 months. To cope with the grief, students created a blog, modeled after GivesMeHope, to provide a place for members of the community to share their uplifting experiences at the school. The blog was named HMGGMH (Henry M. Gunn Gives Me Hope). Another movement of hope inspired by GivesMeHope is Operation Beautiful, a website whose mission is to end "Fat Talk.” Participants of Operation Beautiful leave anonymous post-it notes with encouraging messages in public places for other women to find and be inspired by. The site has received attention from the media due to its uplifting nature. On August 2, 2010, CNN stated that GivesMeHope was a website that may "help renew your faith in the goodness of the human experience."

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described the stories as "sentimental and, at times, almost heartbreakingly sweet." On December 30, 2009, the two launched a GivesMeHope spin-off site LoveGivesMeHope.com (LGMH). The site aimed at those who "can't get enough of the love stories on GivesMeHope". As of August 5, 2010, LoveGivesMeHope has over 160,000 fans on Facebook. The stories are shared widely on platforms such as Facebook. Since February 1, 2010, the site has produced some stories that have been shared over 565,000 times on Facebook.

Book

On August 3, 2010, the two creators officially announced that a book was planned for release in Autumn 2010. The book was published by Ulysses Press, and is a combination of old and new illustrated anecdotes from the website.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.givesmehope.com
LoveGivesMeHope
– Spinoff site
GivesMeHope's book on Amazon.com
Internet properties established in 2009 American social networking websites

History

Book

See also

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