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Online Fundraising Platforms

Online fundraising platforms allow you to present and promote your fundraising campaigns, collect money and monitor your progress.

Check out a comparison here.

5 of the most popular online fundraising platforms:

Just Giving was one of the first platforms for fundraising online and remains one of the largest. It currently has 22 million users worldwide. UK charities pay a monthly subscription fee and then a percentage of donations.

Virgin Money Giving is a non-profit platform created by Virgin Money to help charities raise more money online. So far, they have helped 18,000 UK charities and 890,000 fundraisers to raise more than £685 Million.

CAF Donate was built by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). It allows users to can create online donation forms and buttons and easily add them to websites, emails and Facebook pages. You’ll first need to sign up for CAF’s reporting tool, CAF Charity Dashboard, but then you get access to in-depth reports about your campaigns, donors and donations.

The Good Exchange is a non-profit bringing projects requiring funding to those with grants to give via transparent automated matching with corporate foundations, businesses and individuals. Each project can also receive public donations.

GoFundMe has partnered with PayPal Giving Fund to deliver funds. Donations are processed by PayPal and GoFundMe before being sent to the PayPal Giving Fund – a non-profit organisation which collects and distributes them to the chosen charity. All charities registered with the Charity Commission in the UK are listed in GoFundMe’s charity directory and funds are passed automatically to the charity by PayPal Giving Fund.

4 places to find grant funding online

Grant Funding Opportunities from Hub Cymru Africa.

Grant Funding Opportunities from Hub Cymru Africa.

International Development Funding opportunities from BOND.

UK Government International Development Funding Search.