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16 Jan 2010

Help me find a Haiti relief agency with peer online fundraising

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Category: Social Signal

Like many people, when I heard about the disaster in Haiti, I wanted to help. And I wanted to give others a way to help, too.

Here’s what I decided to do: go to a relief agency’s web site, and set up a peer fundraising page (along the lines of what Convio, Blackbaud and DemocracyInAction create for their clients).

These are pages where you can collect donations on  behalf of the charity; they handle the credit card transaction and tax receipts. Health charities in particular have become adept at creating those pages – think Run for the Cure or our friends at BC Children’s Hospital Foundation – and the breakout success story for peer networked fundraising was the Howard Dean presidential campaign.

My thinking was, for every donation over a certain amount – say, $50 or $100 – I’d send the donor a signed print of their favourite Noise to Signal cartoon. While I can’t handle credit card transactions or charitable receipts, I can handle printing, signing and mailing prints.

I’m all ready to go at this end. But I can’t find a Canadian relief agency that would let me do this.

Pretty much everyone takes donations online, but whether I’m missing something or it’s just not there, the fact is I couldn’t find one enabled for networked fundraising.

So I’m turning to Social Signal’s readers and the nptech community: can you help me find the right agency? Here’s what I’m looking for:

  • Ideally, I’d like to work with a Canadian charity. But if I can’t find a Canadian partner, I’m happy to support another agency. (Ammado looks like a possibility.)
  • I need to be able to track who has given how much (or at least who has given more than the threshold amount).
  • I need to collect their contact information – at the very least, an email address – so I can send them their print.

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