# How Bitcoin is changing the face of non-profits

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/01/09/bitcoin-changing-face-non-profits/
- Published: 2015-01-09T11:02:08+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**How are charities accepting Bitcoin and what are the opportunities and risks of
doing so? Whoishostingthis.com has produced an infographic summarising these developments.**

The information focuses primarily on US nonprofits’ experience, but includes one
Canadian and two global organisations as examples at the end. UK Fundraising last
year reported on the [RNLI’s use of Bitcoin](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/07/31/rnli-accept-donations-bitcoin/)
and found out what its [early experience of the cryptocurrency for donations](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/11/rnli-early-experiences-accepting-bitcoin-donations/)
had been.

 

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 * **[New Bitcoin donation handbook for nonprofits](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/02/05/new-bitcoin-donation-handbook-for-nonprofits/)**(
   5 February 2015)
 * **[Unicef introduces charitable cryptocurrency Unicoin](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/07/13/unicef-introduces-charitable-cryptocurrency-unicoin/)**(
   13 July 2015)
 * **[Bitwalking and Nokia launch first digital currency charity walk](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/10/12/bitwalking-nokia-launch-first-digital-currency-charity-walk/)**(
   12 October 2016)

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