Friend-to-Friend Campaigns with Crowdrise Crowdrise is about online fundraising, event fundraising, volunteering and having the most fun in the world while doing it. They’re making an impact by providing a site where even if the cause is extremely serious, people raising money for that cause could have fun doing it. In the short time they have been around, they have found that Making donating fun - through things like badges, game mechanics and point systems - actually works. The Basic Idea
SimplyRaise Are you crowdfunding? If not, consider the many advantages of this engaging approach to fundraising and friendraising. First, what exactly is crowdfunding? By definition, crowdfunding is a technique that uses existing social networks to increase brand awareness and raise money. Charitable organizations use crowdfunding to create viral campaigns targeted to networks of advocates in order to increase awareness and fundraise for their causes. More importantly, crowdfunding is a cost-effective yet highly creative and interactive tool for charitable organizations.
peaksoverpoverty.org Critical Mass? How the Mobile Revolution Could Help End Gender-Based Violence The past three years – and more pointedly the past 12 months – have laid witness to monumental, if not heartbreaking, incidents of gender-based violence. The gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi last December; the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl left for dead in a pit latrine in Western Kenya last June; the mass sexual assault of women in Tahrir Square during the 2011 revolution in Egypt and since; all were high profile atrocities that ignited outrage around the world. In the aftermath of each of these, mobile technology solutions and internet-based advocacy campaigns surged. It’s almost like clockwork: violence happens, a technology response follows.
Fundraising on Facebook with Causes Causes is the world’s largest platform for activism and philanthropy. Their team empowers individuals to create grassroots communities called “causes” that take action on behalf of a specific issue or nonprofit organization. Since their founding in 2007, Causes has brought together: Why Use Causes Build communities of supporters Conduct fundraising campaigns Circulate petitions Build volunteer capacity And, more!
JustTextGiving for Fundraisers It’s simple, free and fast. If you're in the UK, and you're fundraising for a charity based in the UK, your friends, family and supporters can sponsor you by text message. How to make a donation Dragon Innovation Covering the Crisis Fundraising Fundraising or fund raising (also known as "development") is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies (see also crowd funding). Although fundraising typically refers to efforts to gather money for non-profit organizations, it is sometimes used to refer to the identification and solicitation of investors or other sources of capital for for-profit enterprises. Traditionally, fundraising consisted mostly of asking for donations on the street or at people's doors, and this is experiencing very strong growth[citation needed] in the form of face-to-face fundraising, but new forms of fundraising such as online fundraising have emerged in recent years, though these are often based on older methods such as grassroots fundraising.