Tagged: non profit

June 12, 2013 @ 7:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cancer Bio-Entrepreneur Launches Beats of Laughter. Mona Jhaveri, Ph.D. Launches Crowdfunding Site Beats of Laughter – powered by Launcht.   Mona Jhaveri, Ph.D., a respected and forward-thinking Cancer Bio-entrepreneur, today launched Beats of Laughter, a non-profit organization and crowdfunding platform that is casting a spotlight on… Read More

March 21, 2013 @ 2:06 am By The Kansas City Star  |  

Three local community organizations discovered friends they never knew when they began asking strangers for money — online. “I’m still almost at a loss for words, I’m so grateful” said Ester L. Holzendorf, president of a group working to improve the 3800 block of Chestnut… Read More

March 19, 2013 @ 6:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundly, a crowdfunding for good platform, today announced a series of new features, partners and initiatives to bolster the success of “Run-Walk-Ride” charity fundraising events. Fundly was a featured presenter at last week’s 2013 Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council Conference, the largest annual gathering of athletic event fundraising… Read More

March 18, 2013 @ 5:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Kiva, a crowdfunding platform for social good, announced today that it has reached over 1 million people in more than 65 countries through $400 million in microloans. This is a tremendous milestone for the nonprofit organization, which was founded in 2005 to connect people through… Read More

March 13, 2013 @ 8:26 pm By Forbes  |  

Minnesota’s GiveMNraised $16.3 million in one day using crowdfunding site Razoo in November of 2012. In what has become a major annual event in the nonprofit community in Minnesota, 4,381 nonprofits participated, raising money from 53,339 people on “Give to the Max Day.” The Community Foundation of Utah (with… Read More

March 13, 2013 @ 6:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding-for-good platform, Fundly, today announced that Charity Dynamics, a leading online marketing agency focused on leveraging technology for nonprofits, has become a Fundly Premier Partner. As a Fundly Premier Partner, Charity Dynamics will be certified to create and launch customized, integrated crowdfunding campaigns on Fundly’s… Read More

January 28, 2013 @ 6:39 pm By WSJ.com  |  

What’s different about building a successful for-profit and nonprofit startup? Not much, according to Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, an elite accelerator program in Mountain View, Calif., that accepted a nonprofit for the first time this month, Watsi.org. “You could never tell there was… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

It used to be that most organizations fundraising for charity had to do so the old fashioned way, whether that be by direct (snail) mail, specific events, or in person solicitations.  These were all methods which could be very successful, but these methods were also exceptionally inefficient… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

From the page of Forbes, Devin Thorpe declares Crowdfunding to play a major role in Social Entrepreneurship for 2013: Crowdfunding will become an integral, ongoing part of managing nonprofits and growing for-profit social enterprises. Crowdfunding for social ventures and nonprofits will exceed $1 billion, representing… Read More

December 12, 2012 @ 6:30 pm By Sage  |  

The idea behind online crowdfunding – a group of people coming together to collectively raise money for one big idea – has roots that are not grounded in technology, but rather in communities, reports The Vancouver Observer. WalkAmerica events have been taking place since the early… Read More

November 6, 2012 @ 4:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The Money Crowd, a crowdfunding website designed for nonprofits in Tampa Bay, provides a new option for  community members to support the causes they care about. The site aims to give nonprofits an avenue to fundraise with little to no overhead and less administrative work… Read More