GiveNow.org online total passes £500,000
Howard Lake | 23 March 2005 | News
Since it launched in 2002, over £500,000 has been donated online at GiveNow.org to over 1,000 charities.
GiveNow.org, the online giving site set up by Charities Aid Foundation and The AOL Time Warner Foundation, and supported by AOL UK, has benefited charities large and small.
According to CAF, it “has particularly benefited small charities and charitable trusts which do not have the time or resources to develop their own online donation service”. In addition, it generates income for larger charities and fundraising appeals too. For exaple, Comic Relief, raised over £12,000 through GiveNow.org on 11 March 2005 as part of its Red Nose Day event.
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Martin Gill, Comic Relief’s Head of New Media, said: “While the bulk of our online donations come through our site rednoseday.com, we are keen to be as accessible as possible and GiveNow.org has proved to be a valuable additional fundraising channel for us.”
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.