Charity crowdsourcing news
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow!
Today, as part of Microvolunteering Wednesday, we feature an opportunity found on Help From Home, a microvolunteering opportunity portal. If you’re fed up with having long hair, then why not consider donating some of the stuff to a child that…
January 11th Crowdfunding Platform HelpersUnite Launches Event Ticketing Service
HelpersUnite, a crowdfunding platform which allows projects to donate part of their raised funds to a charity of their choice, has just launched an online ticketing service which offers more cost-efficient pricing to musicians and artists who are trying to…
Crowdsourcing App That Maps Happiness
Today, as part of Microvolunteering Wednesday, we feature an opportunity found on Help From Home, a microvolunteering opportunity portal. If you’re curious to know what factors affect happiness, then consider participating in this crowdsourced citizen science project. Mappiness is an…
New Sci-Fi Web TV Series Launches Crowdfunding Campaign on IndieGoGo
Expecting to begin principal production in February 2012, a new sci-fi web TV series called Immortal U has turned to the crowd for funding assistance. Using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to promote her concept, Immortal U creator Rhonda Abrons believes…
Help Wanted: Whales Need Translators
This week for Microvolunteering Wednesday you can help Scientific American and Zooniverse with their newly launched crowdsourcing project. They are looking for people to decode new phrases, dialects and meaning of killer and pilot whale songs. A staggering 15,000 whale…
RICS Considers Crowdsourcing for Land Tenure Issues
RICS, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, is considering crowdsourcing to provide slum dwellers with some degree of land tenure. Currently, of the world’s 6 billion land parcels, only 1.5 billion have registered land rights. This means that billions of…
Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria
A crowdsourcing initiative to find a cure for drug-resistant malaria has been unveiled by Scripps Research Institute and IBM. The project, to be partly funded by money won from the Jeopardy! game show by IBM’s Watson computing system, has invited…
Artspire Allows Artists to Crowdfund Tax Deductible Contributions
Artspire, created by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is a newly launched crowdfunding platform that acts as an extension of NYFA’s fiscal sponsorship program. Artspire is different from other crowdfunding platforms because it allows artists to accept…
Crowdsourced Video Shows “Everybody Can Save a Life”
Zooppa the leading source of user-generated advertising and MatchingDonors.com the world’s largest living organ donor registry announced that Rob Mical or Orlando, FL had won the $5000 award in their crowdsourced video contest “Everybody Can Save a Life!” The competition…
Symbid: Your Investment Sparks Promising Ideas and Profits
Symbid, is an ‘equity-based’ crowdfunding platform for promising business ideas. Anyone can become an investor as the minimum investment is only twenty euros. Unlike other crowdsourcing companies Symbid, a partner of Enviu, allows participants to become partial owners. The way…
Crowdfunded, Socially-Motivated Businesses Offer Inspiration
Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is the person backing a new crowdsourcing online community set to fund the schemes and ideas of green and social entrepreneurs. Fearnley-Whittingstall, a well-known campaigner, and Peoplefund.it, a new social enterprise platform, aim to support and…
Young People Play a Pivotal Role in Rewriting the UNAIDS Strategy
On October 31st the Joint United Nations Program, UNAIDS, launched its first crowdsourcing campaign designed to include young people in finding solutions to HIV/AIDS. The purpose of UNAIDS is to make HIV prevention and treatment available worldwide. They plan to…
The Most Prolific Microvolunteer?
Here at Microvolunteering Wednesdays, we know that microvolunteering is not a competition. (Well, maybe sometimes it is.) Nevertheless, the high achievers should get some credit; don’t you think? That’s why we’re taking some time to talk with Jerry Bishop, one…
Crowd-knitted Teddy Bears For Kids
Today, as part of Microvolunteering Wednesday, we feature an opportunity found on Help From Home, a microvolunteering opportunity portal. If you still have a soft spot for teddy bears (go on, own up we won’t tell) and you’re good at…
The Mo or No App: Crowdsourcing Awareness For Men’s Health
A new Facebook app called Mo or No has been developed and recently launched by crowdsourcing platform evly.com to help celebrate Movember, an event held every November when men let their moustaches grow to raise awareness and funds for men’s…
Free Crowdsourcing Platform is Gaining Popularity with Organizations
The Ideavibes Crowd Engagement Platform is a program developed to help companies use crowdsourcing and crowdfunding to further their goals by connecting companies and the public’s ideas to help bring about the changes that people want to see. Developed by…
Canadian Film Club Crowdfunds to Launch Online Video-On-Demand Service
The First Weekend Club, whose mandate is to promote Canadian films, is hosting a drive on the crowdfunding website indiegogo.com. Its goal is to raise $20,000 in donations to launch an online streaming website for Canadian films. It’s something we’ve…
The Benefits of Crowdfunding Aligned with a Charity
Daily Crowdsource has published a number of articles on HelpersUnite.com lately, and Microvolunteering Wednesdays has taken note! Rather than recapping what the service does, which is to help align creatives with a cause while creating a crowdfunding project. Let’s look at another…
Off The Page Launches Performing Arts Campaign with HelpersUnite
Off The Page, a program that incorporates performing arts into learning in public schools, has just launched a campaign in the crowdfunding website HelpersUnite in order to raise $12,000 to continue and expand its activities. The New York-based organization pioneered…
Crowdfunding Company Links Start-ups with Investors
Enviu is a Dutch crowdfunding company whose aim is based on the principle “economy of the crowd.” It presumes that few individuals have all the components to make a successful enterprise on their own, but by linking great minds together, many…
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