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Online donation platform Change helps charities fundraise in crypto

Crypto owners tend to be more generous than other investors when donating to charity, research shows. Whether that’s because of their strong sense of community or because of the lucrative tax be

Amazon will allow US Prime members to send gifts using only an email or phone number

In preparation for the holiday shopping season, Amazon today announced a convenient new way to send gifts through its mobile app. Instead of entering the recipient’s mailing address — a pi

Sendoso nabs $100M as its corporate gifting platform passes 20,000 customers

Corporate gift services have come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic by standing in as a proxy for other kinds of relationship-building activities — office meetings, lunches and hosting

Goody raises $4 million for its mobile app that lets you send gifts via text

Unless you’ve got someone’s Amazon Wish List, gift giving today can still be fairly difficult. You don’t necessarily know a friend or family member’s shipping address, their si

Tech for good during COVID-19: Sky-high gifts, extra help and chips

When Roger Lee, the co-founder of Human Interest, heard that San Francisco imposed shelter-in-place orders, he started blogging about layoff news and posting crowdsourced lists of employees who were l

Give InKind’s smarter giving platform brings in surprise $1.5 million in pre-seed funding

Helping out a friend in need online can be surprisingly difficult. While giving cash is easy enough, that's often not what people need most — so Give InKind aims to be the platform where you can do

Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up

In tech circles, it would be easy to assume that the world of high-impact charitable giving is a rich man’s game where deals are inked at exclusive black tie galas over fancy hors d’oeuvre. Both

YouCaring acquires Generosity.com as Indiegogo pulls out of personal causes fundraising

Some consolidation is underway in the world of crowdfunding and online fundraising: YouCaring — which competes with GoFundMe and others in the area of sourcing fundraising for compassionate and

GoFundMe, now with $4B in donations from 40M donors, plots Euro expansion

If you've ever contributed to a charitable fundraising campaign online in the last seven years, chances are that one of those campaigns have been through GoFundMe, a web platform where people can set

Facebook’s personal fundraisers exit beta, now support raising money for sports teams & communities

Facebook announced today it’s expanding its online fundraising tools – basically, Facebook’s own take on a GoFundMe-type service – to include support for community fundraisers

Cradle is an app that makes it easier for you to find and donate to charities

Is your money burning a hole in your pocket, and you'd like to use some of it for good causes, but you don't know where to begin? A new app called Cradle wants to help. Presented at the Disrupt Hackat

Class Action lawsuit alleges PayPal diverts charitable donations from intended recipients, misleads consumers

PayPal was targeted with a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Chicago which focuses on the way the payments company handles charitable donations. The suit alleges the company’s charitable

Apple Pay now lets nonprofits take donations

Apple announced this morning that its payments service Apple Pay will now support the ability to make donations to nonprofits, starting today in the U.S. This includes both Apple Pay on the web, where

Google’s Charitable Donations Android App “One Today” Exits Pilot

<a target="_blank" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.onetoday">One Today</a>, the charitable giving app <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/18/googles-one

Fashion Project, The Site Making Online Shopping A Charitable Act, Raises $1.8 Million In Seed Funding

Recent TechStars Boston grad <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fashionproject.com/">Fashion Project</a> has a different take on the second-hand apparel market. It operates an online store where