# Desktop fundraising (and don't forget the 'e')

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/05/08/desktop-fundraising-and-don039t-forget-039e039/
- Published: 2006-05-08T21:58:45+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

_Just as an aside, I hate having to use a prefixed ‘e’ to refer to electronic fundraising
channels. But I think ‘efundraising’ is the most accepted term?…_

In my first year at CAF back in 1996 I remember getting all excited about the possibility
of developing a charity giving wallet. This would be a desktop application that 
would monitor all a donor’s gifts to their chosen charities, regardless of which
debit, credit or CAF card they had used, or which giving method (GiftAid, payroll
etc). They would have to load their wallet up with the information on their different
charities and different giving methods to start with, but then it would track their
future activity and offer reports to them from their desktop.

A bit like today’s online banking aggregators combined with a BBC news ticker. You
wouldn’t have to visit a website as updates would automatically download.

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We had a couple of big technology companies interested for a while. But those
were the days of bandwidth agony, and nothing materialised.

But bandwidth is no longer the issue it was, so it leads me to ask what could be
the new wave of desktop fundraising applications?

Ideas from the crazy to the mundane here please! Let’s have some fun with this. 
Of course, if you think you may have hit on a truly brilliant one you’ll be contacting
that developer in Mumbai or that angel investor instead. Think of me 😉

 

 

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