Comments on: Personalized Fundraising Pages

By: JT

JT — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:00:19 +0000

I want to purchase a software program that includes a membership database and online personal fundraising pages with a donation button and thermometer. I want one that has good search options as well. Anyone know of any?

By: Desiree

Desiree — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:43:00 +0000

Hi Betsy,

I know this is an old post, but just in case you're still interested in online fundraising pages, I thought I would tell you about our site GiveForward.org.

Similar to JustGiving and FirstGiving (their U.S. spinoff), GiveForward helps individuals participating in events like walks, races, and marathons to raise money for their favorite organizations.

In addition, we allow anyone to create a free fundraising page for any cause they feel is worthy. This means people can use GiveForward for school and team fundraisers, religiously affiliated fundraisers, even raising your own scholarship money.

It's a great tool for anyone looking to expand their fundraising efforts on the web. Plus we offer cool new social media components like uploading a video, music, and an event calendar.

If you have any questions about what we're doing, please don't hesitate to email.

Best to you and thanks so much for the blog!
~Desiree

By: Kevin Blaney

Kevin Blaney — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:45:00 +0000

I set up a site in the UK called Charity Begins offering website owners the chance to buy advertising space in return for one-off donations to the charity of their choice.

To ensure transparency and maximise security I used personalised fundraising pages provided by a company called Bmycharity to process all donations. However, when I approached Justgiving UK to see if I could set up pages with them they said they could not allow it.

I don't know if any other readers have experienced this kind of thing or if anyone has any suggestions regarding why what I am trying to achieve would not be allowed.

By: Tough Customer

Tough Customer — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:59:00 +0000

Betsy,
I work for Justgiving and was delighted to see that you had a good experience using JG’s personal fundraising pages. I would like to address two of the concerns that you mentioned regarding using Justgiving:
We ask for a an email address during the donation process because there is a slight lag in time between the donor making the donation online and the donation being actually processed by the credit card company. We need to communicate (via email) with the donor regarding the status of the donation. This email address is not shared and is used strictly for JG communications. The donor is given the option to create an account, too, which can then be used to check on donation history and other JG activity (account is not required).
RE. credit cards being processed in the UK; this is no longer the case and all credit card transactions are processed in the US (so there is no more international fee). Our company originated in the UK and the US office has been open just since 2003; our systems were still tied until November 2005.
I hope I’ve answered your questions. I truly believe that Justgiving is a great tool for fundraisers and we have proven that more money is raised using online pages than not. If you have any comments or further questions, please feel free to email me at laurel@justgiving.com.