{"id":845,"date":"2006-12-19T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/12\/19\/remaking-the-charity-biz-web-20-style\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:35:58","slug":"remaking-the-charity-biz-web-20-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/12\/19\/remaking-the-charity-biz-web-20-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaking the charity biz, Web 2.0-style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Hill — a smart guy who founded the company that eventually became Radialpoint, and writes a venture-capital oriented blog<\/a> called Billions With Zero Knowledge — has put together what he hopes will become a Web 2.0-style charity called Gifter, and launched it with a “million-dollar blog post.”<\/a> For every wish that is submitted, $1 will be donated to charity.<\/p>\n

You can also sponsor a wish by donating $1 or more to Gifter (props to Austin for keeping all the vowels in the name, unlike most other Web 2.0 outfits). There’s an explanation of how things work here<\/a>, including a description of how you can use online charity tools such as Tom Williams’ excellent GiveMeaning.com, as well as CanadaHelps.org (another of Austin’s ventures, called Project Ojibwe, has sponsored 2,500 wishes).<\/p>\n

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Coincidentally enough, Muhammad Saleem of The Mu Life and a partner just launched a website called Socially Given<\/a>, where they are also hoping to use Web 2.0-type community tools to bring together people who want to contribute. Their idea stemmed from a post on Digg, in which Valleywag said it would donate $10 every time its “Diggbait” posts made it to the front page — and Muhammad calculated that this would bring in far more in advertising profits than would be given to charity.<\/p>\n

Cambrian House, the Calgary-based “crowdsourcing” software-development company (which I wrote about here<\/a>), also has a socially-driven charity effort of sorts called Robinhood Fund, in which people pay $5 to submit a wish, and then the community votes on who should receive the money collected each month. Past recipients have included a woman who needed medication<\/a> for her sister’s Parkinson’s disease.<\/p>\n

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Austin Hill — a smart guy who founded the company that eventually became Radialpoint, and writes a venture-capital oriented blog called Billions With Zero Knowledge — has put together what he hopes will become a Web 2.0-style charity called Gifter, and launched it with a “million-dollar blog post.” For every wish that is submitted, $1 … <\/p>\n

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