Careware
Howard Lake | 7 July 1999 | News
Online donations can come from many unexpected sources. Ty Hafan, the Children’s Hospice of Wales, for example, is the beneficiary of a software developer who encourages users to make a small donation for using his products.
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Online donations can come from many unexpected sources. Ty Hafan, the Children’s Hospice of Wales, for example, is the beneficiary of a software developer who encourages users to make a small donation for using his products.
David Griffiths produces Java applets which can add impressive functions and facilities to Web pages. He offers these for free, but asks that satisfied users make a charitable donation. On his scripts site he says: “there is NOTHING to pay. The applet is completely free. However, if you make a donation ($5 – $10?) to Ty Hafan, Children’s Hospice of Wales, which is a charitable appeal formed to build, equip and run a Children’s Hospice in Wales to provide care for terminally ill children, you can consider your applet well-and-truly registered. Click here for details on how to make a donation.”
Not only does Griffiths encourage support for a named charity, but he also sensibly adds a link to the online donation page, making it difficult to ignore.
Read UK Fundraising’s coverage of careware and donationware.
- Good start (8 July 1999)
- New Internet fundraising e-mail list (8 July 1999)
- "Digital TV beats Internet for charity communications" (8 July 1999)
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.