Pat Duffy founded The Giving Block, a Shift4 company, with co-founder Alex Wilson, creating a new fundraising category they called “Crypto Philanthropy”. After building the leading crypto acceptance solution for nonprofits, Pat and his team developed the largest crypto giving platform for donors, raising over $100M for nonprofits and taking crypto and NFT donations mainstream.
Today, The Giving Block is the platform helping thousands of the world’s leading charities, schools, healthcare systems and faith-based organizations fundraise cryptocurrencies, stocks and Donor-Advised Fund grants more effectively from modern philanthropists, including Save the Children, United Way Worldwide, Feeding America and St. Jude.
Pat was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022 in the area of Social Impact, alongside co-founder Alex Wilson, for their work at The Giving Block. He has also received honors for being one of the 100 Most Influential people in crypto, as well as The Kennedy Center’s Next 50 class of 2022.
Due to Pat’s unique expertise as a tech founder, fundraiser and cryptocurrency trader, he has been featured in publications including Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Associated Press, CoinDesk, and CNBC.
