Tagged: justgiving

January 11, 2024 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

GoCardless, the bank payment company, has extended its relationship with JustGiving to become the online donation platform’s exclusive open banking payment provider, replacing American Express. The move will see JustGiving use both the fintech’s Instant Bank Pay feature “to collect instant, one-off gifts and its… Read More

March 9, 2020 @ 8:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

allplants, a “vegan delivery company,” closed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs with a total of £3,461,657 secured. Felix Capital, the venture fund behind GOOP and Deliveroo, also reportedly participated in the round, alongside Simon Nixon (ex-CEO of MoneySupermarket.com) of Seek Ventures. They are joined… Read More

October 3, 2017 @ 8:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB), a cloud software company powering social good, announced on Tuesday it has completed its acquisition of U.K.-based crowdfunding platform, JustGiving. The acquisition, which was announced earlier this summer, will notably enhance Blackbaud’s capabilities to serve both individual donors and nonprofits, expanding… Read More

September 19, 2017 @ 3:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

JustGiving, a charity crowdfunding platform based in the UK, recently revealed it has been targeted by fraudsters who have been using the portal for money laundering scams. JustGiving describes itself as the world’s most trusted online giving platform. The platform stated its main mission is… Read More

June 26, 2017 @ 10:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cloud software company Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB) announced on Monday it has entered into an agreement to acquire UK-based charity crowdfunding platform, JustGiving. The acquisition will notably enhance Blackbaud’s capabilities to serve both individual donors and nonprofits, expanding the peer-to-peer fundraising capabilities Blackbaud offers today through… Read More

June 14, 2017 @ 3:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Grenfell Tower Fire in West London was covered around the world on cable television yesterday. The tower block was utterly engulfed in flames. Countless lives were lost with horrific stories of people jumping from windows to avoid the tragic fire. Not only were lives… Read More

May 25, 2017 @ 1:54 am By JD Alois  |  

The Manchester Evening News, a daily circulation publication with circulation of 52,000, has launched a donations campaign on JustGiving to raise £2 million to support the families of the victims killed and wounded in the tragic Manchester Arena attack. The campaign, operated in partnership with… Read More

December 16, 2016 @ 8:07 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Justen Hyde, a software engineer with Emergent Design Ltd, began crowdfunding eight days ago on JustGiving to address the Brexit fallout.  His initial goal?  Raise £3,959 (approximately $5,000) within a month to send every Member of Parliament — all 650 of them — a copy of “Brexit:… Read More

September 22, 2015 @ 3:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to expand its distinctive storage business, Crowdcube success and 2014 Startup’s Crowdfunded Business of the Year Award winner, LOVESPACE, announced it has moved its headquarters from Kennington, South London, to the City. The company, which was founded by Streetcar co-founder and entrepreneur Brett Akker, won the award in… Read More

August 14, 2015 @ 11:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

EdAid, a financial technical startup, recently announced that it is launching its own crowdfunding platform to help students with college expenses. According to CityAM, the new platform, which is pending approval by the Financial Conduct Authority, is set to launch next month and will offer… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 1:50 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  JustGiving, a UK-based fundraising platform, has just gone live with its crowdfunding capabilities, offering crowdfunders the chance to be part of the JustGiving community of 12 million, according to a recent press release by the company. Since launching in 2001, JustGiving has enabled over 22 million people across 164… Read More

November 5, 2014 @ 12:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With consumers prepping for the upcoming holidays, along with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, organizations from all around the world, including PayPal,  JustGiving, eBay, and Discover, have teamed up to celebrate this year’s #GivingTuesday. Now, global crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo, has also announced its support for… Read More

November 4, 2014 @ 3:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Today as Americans all over the U.S. get out the vote for Election Day, more partners and dedicated Social Media Ambassadors across all 50 states and around the world are signing on to “get out the give” for December 2nd—this year’s #GivingTuesday. This global day… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 8:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

JustGiving’s crowdfunding platform, Yimby, has raised over £1.3M for local projects since its debut last November. The website’s mission is to helps individuals and groups give funds to community projects without having to be a registered organization. According to Civil Society, Yimby, which stands for… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Yimby, a play on the term Nimby (Not in my backyard), a crowdfunding platform for social good was just recently launched by their elder sibling – JustGiving.  In part funded by a United Kingdom government grant, Yimby is off to a stellar start as projects… Read More