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Ian McLintock Founder at Charity Excellence Framework Posted 6 years ago

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CharityConnect: 20+ free online fundraising platforms. Have I missed any?
Everything from donations to finding business supporters & volunteers, art, vouchers, stamps, holiday prizes, shopping, browsers, hotel/restaurant bookings and cards. Have I missed any? 
These are a few of the resource links from the free Charity Excellence Framework online toolkit.  The system has 3000+ resource links, including to 200+ organisations that provide free goods/services and professional advice to charities.
Funding Platforms
Maanch - global platform to link funding to high impact projects using the UN SDGs
Wonderful.org - a donations platform with no charges
Golden Giving - charities/social enterprises charged for online payments only 
Chuffed.org - fee free crowd funding platform, run by a social enterprise
Local Giving - for local charities, also provides match funding, as well as other regional grant programmes, fundraising advice and support
Big Give - matched funding platform
The Good Exchange - online funder matching platform
PayPal Giving Fund - raise funds through PayPal, eBay and other platforms
Raisely - donors invited to add optional processing fee, need to use Stripe payment service
You can find an assessment of all the main platforms here
Other Platforms
aDoddle.org - online community map that links charities to local businesses and volunteers
Ethical Angel - matching charities to businesses looking to help
Recycle4Charity - funding for recycled printer inkjet cartridges
RecyclingforGoodCauses - funding for whole range of items; watches, phones, stamps etc
Charity Vouchers - recipient donates value of voucher to a UK charity of their choice
Charitable Bookings - hotel/restaurant booking site with donations to charities
Charity Escapes - free holiday prizes for fundraising events.
Don'tSendMeACard.com - receive donations, in lieue of cards.
Third Bridge - connecting non-profits to companies and volunteers
Art for Charity - uniting charities, artists and companies to raise funds
E-Bay for Charity - receive donations and sell items
Every Click - raise money by asking your supporters to use their web browser
Give As You Live - raise money through online and in-store shopping
Easy Fundraising - another online shopping fundraiser
Go Raise - and yet another online shopping fundraiser
The Charity Excellence Framework can be used by anyone and works for any non-profit. Set-up is 2 mins and each of the 8 questionnaires 30, reported via an interactive dashboard, with its own quality mark; everything is free.
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