Fund a dream
My colleague Ryan pointed me to Fundable.org – a really easy way to raise funds amongst friends and peers for that group trip overseas, an expensive family gift, fundraise for a family member in hospital, kick start your business before making the product… and the best part is how simple they’ve kept things:
- One person creates a Fundable page to collect $1000 from a group of people.
- Each person in the group enters credit card or PayPal information as a pledge (but does NOT pay money).
- Once all pledges add up to $1000, Fundable turns them into real payments.
If the collection expires before reaching $1000, Fundable deletes all pledges. - Fundable sends $1000 to the group leader, who makes sure that everyone receives what was paid for.
Brittany
Another company that specializes in “funding dreams” is Firstgiving.com. The main difference between the two companies is that through Firstgiving you can only raise money for non-profits. After you set up your free personalized fundraising page you can promote it to all your friends all over the Internet, using your social networks, blog, etc.