Tagged: nonprofit

February 5, 2015 @ 4:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Keeping the excitement of the Super Bowl XLIX alive, fans of singing sensation, Katy Perry, have taken to Indiegogo in an effort to get their very own Super Bowl halftime show shark suit. Adding some fun with his charity efforts, environmentalist David Lam launched a campaign… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 9:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

MobileCause, a mobile, social and online fundraising platform, has released its newest service, crowdfunding for nonprofits. This new product empowers organizations to conveniently raise donations through volunteers, board members, donors and staff. Differing from traditional crowdfunding for projects, MobileCause crowdfunding pages can be setup on a… 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

October 11, 2014 @ 11:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nonprofit computer science organization Code.Org debuted its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo earlier this week to raise $5,000,000 for its new program called, An Hour of Code For Every Student. This gives 100 million students through the world an opportunity to have one hour per day of computer… Read More

October 1, 2014 @ 2:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring his new project to life, Kickstarter’s co-founder and former CEO Perry Chen debuted a philanthropy service called Dollar a Day on Wednesday (October 1st). According to Re/Code, the platform is a email newsletter that features one nonprofit organization on a daily basis. Subscribers can sign… Read More

September 29, 2014 @ 8:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Over the past weekend, Ohio resident and creator the famous Potato Salad Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, Zach “Danger” Brown, hosted PotatoStock 2014 in the state’s capital to give back to the Central Ohio homeless community. The free event featured performances by five bands, food trucks, and over… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

TubeStart is offering to help 501(c)(3) organizations by allowing charities and nonprofits to crowdfund on their platform for free. Any organizations interested in taking advantage of this offer are encouraged to contact TubeStart. More information on how to do so is available on TubeStart’s web… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

TheCHIVE is a hugely popular web site organized around sharing all things good in the world. You may have seen their ubiquitous KEEP CALM and CHIVE ON shirts adorned somewhere near you. If you didn’t know what they were, now you do! One local faction… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 11:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ten crowdfunding campaigns. $1,420,000 in funding sought. Six weeks to go. One nonprofit with one goal: to put bike share stations all over Kansas City, Missouri. Civic crowdfunding platform Neighbor.ly is currently hosting ten crowdfunding campaigns that represent ten possible future locations for bike sharing… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 8:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Central Falls, Rhode Island Director of Economic Development Shares Insights For Other Cities Looking To Crowdfund Public Projects In the wake of the financial crisis, budgets at all levels of government have tightened. Words like “sequester” are now a part of our common, everyday lexicon…. Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ketto is a Mumbai-based crowdfunding platform that “allows individuals, corporates and NGOs to raise funds for their favorite social causes and ideas.” The company has just secured a Rs 77 lakh (~$125,000) angel round from CLUB ah! and Calcutta Angels. According to Next Big What, this… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Central Falls, Rhode Island is “the smallest city in the smallest state” in the United States, but it is a densely populated city; it’s comprised of nearly 20,000 residents in an area of about one square mile. Central Falls fell on hard times in the… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 10:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States, a day to celebrate the sacrifices made by American soldiers throughout history. The day marks an armistice between the Allies and Germany that brought and end to fighting during World War I, on the eleventh hour of… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 10:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdvance is a free crowdfunding platform for non-profit companies, and they’ve announce an initiative slated for #GivingTuesday. Giving Tuesday takes place after Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It is a boon for non-profits around the country, and this year Crowdvance is going to try… Read More

October 30, 2013 @ 11:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joseph Kony is a wanted man. He is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerilla group accused of abducting tens of thousands of children and forcing them into becoming sex slaves and soldiers. Kony’s profile went nuclear in 2012 with the… Read More

October 18, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Motivational Edge is a non-profit organization with the goal of encouraging youth in South Florida to achieve high academic standards, leveraging “culturally relevant arts” as a motivational platform. A campaign on Indiegogo is seeking $200,000 for the non-profit. The goal? To fund a new chapter… Read More

August 11, 2013 @ 10:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last month we brought you the story of GunByGun.org, an organization that planned to use crowdfunding in an effort to hold gun buyback programs. The organization currently has an active Indiegogo campaign that is seeking $20,000 via flexible funding. It has raised over $14,000 with… Read More

July 17, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) has launched an Indiegogo campaign seeking funding for a tablet version of the “most widely-read English-language magazine on Latin America,” NACLA Report on the Americas. For 45 years, NACLA has uncovered the real stories from the Americas, reporting… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Buried in the list of rewards for DC Entertainment’s “We Can Be Heroes” is a pretty incredible available perk: having Jim Lee come to your house to create an original piece of artwork right on your wall. Not only are we more dedicated than ever… Read More

March 30, 2013 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Here CNN covers how one Atlanta-based nonprofit is using crowdfunding to raise funds and build tech to help those in need in their area. Watch below…