# From tiger stickers to race day donations: fundraising app round up

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/10/09/from-tiger-stickers-race-day-donations-fundraising-app-round-up/
- Published: 2019-10-09T07:57:49+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**From the launch of Percent, which sees retailers donate a percentage of what their
customers spend to charity, to a Viber tie-up with WWF, and a race day app from 
RaceNation, here’s a round up of recent fundraising app news.**

 

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#### Percent launches to help shoppers support good causes

Recently launched fundraising app [Percent](https://wearepercent.com/) lets people
raise money for causes they care about by shopping with its retail partners. Every
time a Percent user spends with a Percent retailer, the retailer will donate a percentage
of what they spent to the charity of the user’s choice. Retailers currently on the
platform include deliveroo, itsu, and BrewDog.

 

> Sending a thought on [#ThinkingofYou](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThinkingofYou?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> [pic.twitter.com/U5J8oGjKE7](https://t.co/U5J8oGjKE7)
> — ThinkDonate (@thinkdonate) [July 18, 2019](https://twitter.com/thinkdonate/status/1151861509275959296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

#### Tearfund joins Thinking of You

Tearfund has become the eleventh international development charity to join social
donation network [Thinking of You](https://thinkingofyouapp.com/). The app lets 
users to send a thoughtful message to someone and add an optional donation to charity,
and also to create fundraising events and in memory campaigns, or just to donate
to their favourite charity, whilst also keeping their mobile contacts up to date
with a live fundraising feed. Tearfund joins over sixty charities now on Thinking
of You.

 

> UniTaskr is here! Now available on Web 🌐 🎉 [pic.twitter.com/PghJtHSplW](https://t.co/PghJtHSplW)
> — UniTaskr (@UniTaskr) [September 16, 2019](https://twitter.com/UniTaskr/status/1173635428311810049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

#### UniTaskr offers student volunteers

[UniTaskr](https://unitaskr.com), the app that helps students to earn while they
learn, has launched an initiative to help UK charities benefit from its 5,000 strong
taskforce. The campaign, called #Task4Aid, aims to encourage UniTaskr’s student 
workforce to volunteer for good causes. UniTaskr plans to use #Task4Aid to pre-authorise
charities, enabling them to post volunteer tasks on the platform in the run up to
Christmas. Charities will then be able to seek assistance free of charge in areas
including social media, blogging, promotional work or just to make the most of an
extra pair of helpful hands.

UniTaskr also aims to incorporate the campaign into the platform itself. Users will
have the option to make a donation to a charity of their choice, which in turn will
top up the charities’ UniTaskr account purse. Donations will be able to be withdrawn
by the charities as and when they choose.

 

 [⌊viber stickers⌉](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-10-09-at-07.02.29.png)

 

#### Viber app teams up with WWF

Global messaging app [Viber](https://www.viber.com/) has teamed up with WWF to raise
awareness of tiger conservation. For 29 July, Global Tiger Day, Viber created [tiger-themed stickers](https://stickers.viber.com/pages/wwftigers)
that users can send in their everyday conversations on the platform. As part of 
the campaign, the tiger-themed stickers also connect to a chatbot that invites users
to contribute to a dedicated [donation page](https://live.adyen.com/hpp/pay.shtml)
and/or win digital prizes by completing a tiger-related quiz and inviting friends
to do the same. Viber is matching the first $10k of donations by 18 December and
to date, the stickers have seen 1.8m unique downloaders, 5.4m stickers messages 
generated by the downloaders, and 40% of the fundraising goal reached.

The bot also promotes the WWF community where users can find the latest news around
WWF, and as part of the campaign, WWF launched special kids T-shirts with the stickers.

 

 [⌊RaceNation app⌉](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2019/10/RaceNationApp.png)

 

#### RaceNation race day app

[RaceNation](https://www.race-nation.com/the-app/) has launched a race day app that
not only allows races of any size to track participants on the course and send them
live messages but also for participants and spectators to donate straight to charity
pages through the RaceNation fundraising arm, Sports Giving. This new technology
will be rolled out to RaceNation’s 1,400 events over the UK. The free app will come
as standard to organisers using RaceNation services and will feature interactive
course and event village maps, built through Google Maps with live tracking for 
spectators to view the progress of friends and family. It also has an in-built messaging
service so people can send good luck messages or notify others of their position,
with the messages playing through headphones. Event organisers can also manage the
platform from their mobile.

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