Comments on: A quick Community Fundraising 2.0 conference session plug

By: Alex Bono

Alex Bono — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:33:15 +0000

Hi Bryan,
One of my clients – The Brooke – are running a great community fundraising event called Horses in Need. Definitely worth checking out. Please drop me a line if you’d like some more info about it or stop by our stand at the IoF convention (stand 14) next week and I’ll fill you in. It’s a great event that’s now in its second year. It’s a very simple concept – supporters are asked to host their own event in support of the Brooke. They have supporters around the world taking part in the event.

Best wishes,
Alex

Alexandra Bono
Product Specialist – Online Fundraising
Rapidata Services
http://www.rapidataservices.com

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:33:02 +0000

Thanks for letting us know about the site Ethan. Best of luck with the launch – I’ll look-out for it.

By: Ethan Austin

Ethan Austin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:20:58 +0000

Hi Bryan,

I want to tell you about GiveForward.org. We are a new peer-to-peer community fundraising site that provides personal fundraising pages to individuals and organizations to help them raise money online for good causes.

The personal fundraising pages will look somewhat similar to profiles on a social networking site with photos, videos, comments, event information, etc. Once the profile is filled out, the individual can then send the link to friends and family asking them to make a quick and easy online donation.

In concept, we are somewhat similar to other online fundraising sites in existence in that our users will have the opportunity to raise money for any non-profit that is important to them. However, what makes us different from other peer-to-peer fundraising sites is that we also allow users to raise money for good causes that are not necessarily affiliated with a non-profit organization.

For instance, later this year I will be running a half-marathon to raise money for a scholarship fund for my friend’s two-year-old daughter who recently lost her mother to cancer. Additionally, another one of our GiveForward team members will be using the site to raise money for travel expenses so he and his water polo team can compete in the 2009 Deaflympics in Taipai.

We’re launching July 2008. I hope you’ll check us out. Thanks!

Ethan Austin
Co-founder, GiveForward