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YouTube Now Lets Viewers Make Donations
According to TechRepulic, YouTube is helping nonprofits raise funds with new donation cards. During the video a donation card will appear that viewers can use to make a donation to the suggested charity. The processing fees are handled by Google with the donation running through Network for Good.
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Niche Fundraising Helps Small Farmers
Small farmers and slow food producers are getting a funding boost from crowdfunding, reports Forbes. The site Barnraiser, is a crowdfunding platform specifically for sustainable and healthy food companies.
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Super Bowl Works with Host City to Donate to Charity
The Bay Area, which is the 2015 Super Bowl’s host city, is dedicating 25% of the money contributed by sponsors such as Apple and Google to charitable giving. The giving program is headed by the Tipping Community and so far has distributed $2.5 million to local nonprofits prior to the Super Bowl, with an expected $5 million more after the game.
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13 Year Old Uses 3-D Printer to Help Nonprofit
A Tucson boy is using his 3-D printer to help the disabled, reports Tucson.com. The 13 year old prints & assembles prosthetic hands and gives them to a, e-NABLE a network of volunteers for the Enable Community Foundation. The volunteers distribute the prosthetic hands worldwide.
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Paypal Gets World Record for Fundraising
According to the Nonprofit Times, Paypal is a Guinness Book of World Records winner. Paypal won for ‘Most money raised online for charity in 24 hours’. During 2015’s Giving Tuesday Paypal raised $45.8 million dollars globally.
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Millennials Go for Crowdfunding
According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, crowdfunding is expected to grow to 34.4 billion in 2015. Experts believe that millennials are responsible for the surge in crowdfunding. In 2014, 84 percent of millennials gave to a charitable organization, with many of them choosing to make their donation via crowdfunding platforms.
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Louisville Fund Gets Smartphone App
According to the Business Journal, the Louisville Fund for the Arts is taking fundraising to the next step. The nonprofit arts organization is launching a smartphone app that will help users locate arts and cultural events in the area, and it will also include a way to donate directly from the app.
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Popular Online Fundraising Event Ends
Richmond’s Community Foundation is discontinuing its Amazing Raise fundraising event, reports Richmond Biz Sense. The 36 online fundraising event has run for five years and raised over $7 million dollars for local charities, but in recent years interest and donations have waned.
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Go Solar and Help your Favorite Charity
According to TreeHugger, SolarCity’s new SunRaising program helps nonprofits earn funds. Nonprofits sign up with SolarCity and earns money through a referral program. For every one of their supporters who signs up for solar the non-profit earns $200.
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Giving Small
Givepenny, a new online fundraising platform, makes it easy for users to give small amounts, reports the Guardian. The app interfaces with lifestyle apps like FitBit, Runkeeper and Facebook to let users give small amounts to commemorate event milestones.
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