Charity Badges: Cheap and Easy - and Distributed – Online Fundraising Tools

Posted by irishg on January 2nd, 2007 at 03:55am

An interesting flurry of activity in past weeks with the appearance of a new type of online fundraising tool that could bridge the gap between tried-and-true online donation forms, and the emerging world of Web 2.0 applications (myspace, youtube, wikipedia, etc.): charity badges — also known as fundraising widgits. (widgits are small objects that you can put anywhere on a web page to add new functions, new content, etc.)Idealware posted a roundup of the candidates that appeared just in time for the holiday giving rush. URL: Tis the Season… for Cheap and Easy - and Distributed – Online Fundraising Tools

Charity badges are interesting new tools that could open up a whole new area in online fundraising - it’s still a bit early to tell if and how these tools might catch on.

Here is a list of some of the early players in this new fundraising technology field:

• ChipIn
• Network for Good
• GetActive
• Kintera
• Convio

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