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PayPal handles online donations for UNICEF Tsunami appeal
Howard Lake | 4 January 2005 | News
Online payment handler PayPal is handling online donations to UNICEF’s Tsunami Disaster Relief appeal, and has raised $404,379 by the end of 3 January 2005.
PayPal, owned by eBay.com, says that it “will waive all fees in relation to the donation, so that UNICEF will receive 100% of the amount you donate.”
The appeal is promoted with a graphic on the front page of PayPal’s site. This is the first time that PayPal has donated coverage for a charitable appeal on its front page.
The PayPal UK front page doesn’t include the graphic, but it does include a text promotion of the appeal: “UK residents click here to make your donation to the US UNICEF Tsunami Relief Effort from the US PayPal site.”
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.