5 Innovative Online Crowdfunding Tools for Non-Profits

Online crowdfunding garners millions in charitable giving for the nonprofit industry every year, but there are so many options it can be difficult to find the right online donation tools for your organization. Here are some of our favorite funding sites that leverage social networks and online crowds to help you do some (social) good.

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1. Fundly

With over 100,000 campaigns created last year, Fundly is the one of the biggest philanthropic crowdfunding platform out there. To date, more than $331 million has been raised for social good on Fundly. The donation-based crowdfunding platform empowers people, groups and organizations to raise funds for near and dear campaigns, concurrently hosts thousands of active campaigns daily.

2. Wizeo

The first video-chat-for-a-cause platform, Wizeo was launched in May 2014. Wizeo is designed to raise funds and awareness for nonprofits by connecting the world’s most inspiring people (“Wizzes”) with their community of fans through live video chats. Members can bid to have one-on-one 15-minute video chats or donate to attend a group video chat with participating thought leaders and celebrities. Some notable Wizzes in past campaigns include: Avram Grant, former manager of Chelsea Football Club; Peter Greenberg, Emmy winning Travel Editor for CBS News; Simon Sinek, author and leadership expert; and many more.

3. Ink to the People



Milwaukee-based Ink to the People is on a mission to give charity a wardrobe change. This unique crowdfunding platform allows anyone to create and sell their own t-shirt designs to benefit their favorite nonprofits. One of their most popular campaign, the Boston Strong, raised over $1,000,000 for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

4. GiveMob

Made by millennials, for millennials, GiveMob is a charitable giving app for iPhone and Android that allows users to donate a small sum of money ($5-$10) to featured charities through SMS. Instead of dealing with the hassle of inputting credit card details the app takes advantage of existing text-to-donate fundraising campaigns. Donating has never been easier!

5. Guilty Pledgers

Guilty Pledgers is a Spotify web app that lets you donate money to charity each time you play a particularly cheesy song. Any Spotify user can throw a Guilty Pledgers house party by signing in with Facebook. From here, guests can pledge a minimum of £2 to any of a range of charities in return for adding tracks of their choice to the playlist.

6. Plumfund

Plumfund is where you can create your own fund page directly without any struggle. Believe or not, you only have 3 steps to have it done. First, create the Plumfund (easily!), then share with their easy-to-use tools, et voilà, you either receive payments offline or online depends on what you choose. Plumfund actually has ZERO platform fees, whereas the other guys might charge 5% or even more. You might not know that Plumfund was also featured on Shark Tank and got and investment from Kevin O’Leary. What can make us not put our trust in this guy? Plumfund is the right tool for crowdfunding that you’ve been looking for!

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Have you used these crowdfunding platforms before? Or are there other platforms that you find worthwhile? Please share them in the comments below.