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Online donations just keep getting easier thanks to Artez Interactive. A leading North American provider of fundraising platforms, Artez has launched a new mobile iPhone application that supports online fundraising. Working with its charitable partners, Artez has raised over 500 million dollars over the past 10 years through the digital revolution. The new app will soon be offered to various organization, allowing them to customize it for their own fundraising efforts.
Online Donations Will Happen “Anywhere and Everywhere”
According to Artez’s Chairman, James Appleyard, “The move to mobile will now allow consumers to make online donations anywhere and everywhere. It takes the entire web fundraising experience and puts it in your hand.”
Such freedom for donors can be crucial when disaster organizations require individuals to respond to worldwide disasters such as the recent floods in Pakistan or the Haiti earthquake.
Working with their charitable partners, Artez will provide tailor-make apps for various websites and organizations, allowing partners to benefit from customized branding, and for donors to donate online while on the go. In addition, Appleyard believes that its new app will allow organizations to respond more effectively and efficiently to disasters, even within 72 hours – the most effective time to successfully solicit community members for donations.
The application will be unveiled at a digital conference this week and should be available to charitable organizations within the next few weeks. PayPal has also worked closely with Artez in the development of the application and to ensure personal security.
Creating mobile applications to make helping poor people easier is a natural evolution of the smartphone and converging technologies. Online donations are the life-blood charitable organizations such as Microgiving, and we invite you to search our website and consider making a donation yourself to one of our community members in need.
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We are proud to announce that MicroGiving now has pages on most of the major social networking sites. We encourage everyone to become a friend or fan of these pages to help spread the word about our wonderful community. Remember the more awareness we create the more significant change we can make.
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See you around….
Thanks,
The MicroGiving Team
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Tuesday, June 3 @ 6PM ET- News 12 at 6 ran a great story about a MicroGiving member, Becky Raymond and her quest to independence and mobility.
BEECH ISLAND—A Beech Island woman who can’t walk on her own anymore didn’t take her disability lying down. In fact, she found a new way to get around, a scooter.
It’s called www.microgiving.com. You can give a little to help out someone in need. And in Becky Raymond’s case, she’d still be a shut-in if she hadn’t found it.
For Becky, walking is a challenge that most can’t relate to.
“I have osteoarthritis. The pain happened in one knee, the other knee, and then the hip. I fall a lot. Trip over things.” she said.
Crutches used to be able to get her around, but after some recent falls she needed something else.
“It came to a point where I needed to do something.” she said.
What she came up with is a scooter that can get her where she needs to be. But getting it wasn’t easy.
You see, many scooters cost around a thousand dollars. For someone on disability, that’s money that isn’t easy to come by.
So Becky dug deep to find a way and what she found was a website called www.microgiving.com.
“You put in a request saying what you need.” she said.
After some verification, your request is posted and people can make donations to help your cause.
The idea is everyone can make a small donation to help you get something you really need. All those small donations added up quickly for Becky.
“I had most within a week. Within 2 weeks I had all I needed.” she said.
Every cent from complete strangers who just wanted to help.
“It put me to tears cause people care and cared enough to donated a bunch every day,” she said.
It’s a way for people like Becky who’ve lost so much, to get what they need on their own and regain some independence.
“I had to do this that I had the power to do on my own.” she said.
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