# Facebook launches new Facebook Fundraisers features

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/06/07/facebook-launches-new-facebook-fundraisers-features/
- Published: 2018-06-07T08:30:21+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Nonprofits can now start fundraisers for their own causes while brand and public
figures can now fundraise for nonprofit causes with Facebook Fundraisers.**
[Facebook](https://en-gb.facebook.com/)
announced a number of new features aimed at helping nonprofits raise more from their
supporters through Facebook Fundraisers on 5 June. Through these, it is now letting
brands and public figures fundraise for nonprofits through their Facebook pages,
while nonprofits can now start fundraisers on their pages for their own causes. 
It says it has already seen momentum and success from pages running fundraisers 
and gives the example of artists Tegan and Sara who recently raised over $42,000
through a page [fundraiser](https://www.facebook.com/donate/608976982789554/608976986122887/)
to help send 100 children to LGBTQ summer camp in the US and Canada through the 
Tegan and Sara Foundation LGBTQ Camp Scholarship and in collaboration with the Ally
Coalition.An additional new feature is the ability to add extra organisers to a 
fundraiser. In the same way that people can add a co-admin or moderator to a Facebook
Group or a co-host to their Facebook Event, they can now add up to three friends
to be organisers of their fundraiser to help them manage it and reach more supporters.
Facebook launched its [personal fundraisers tool](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/09/facebook-launches-personal-fundraising-tool-uk/)
in the UK back in November last year, enabling individuals to raise money for a 
charity or personal cause. The fundraisers are public and Facebook also informs 
the user’s chosen charity that one has been created for them. It also introduced
the birthday fundraiser, which sees it ask people if they would like to donate their
birthday to charity by setting up a fundraiser and inviting friends to donate to
their chosen cause instead of giving them a present. Last month, singer-songwriter
and War Child ambassador Sam Smith raised over £23,000 for War Child through his
[birthday fundraiser](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/05/15/250204/). 

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