Had she known Indiegogo had stipulations about fundraisers relating to Syria, Angus said she would have chosen a different fundraising platform.
Online fundraising platform JustGiving raised £1.25m – a 46% increase on last year – and Virgin Money Giving reported a 50% increase.
A specialist educational fundraising platform, RocketFund, has been used by 400 schools across the UK.
We decided to take a different angle and pilot an online fundraising platform for schools, called Rocket Fund.
Zarine Kharas, a former lawyer and City banker, is co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of JustGiving – the UK's first online fundraising platform.
The charity hands control over to its supporters, but facilitates their fundraising efforts with its own fundraising platform, meaning people stay on its website rather than going elsewhere.
US fundraising platform Charitybuzz also regularly auctions internships, many of which are unpaid in sectors including film, fashion, business and the voluntary sector.
Using behavioural data, the online fundraising platform found that individuals were often motivated to start a fundraising campaign after the death of a loved one.
The suspension of the CharityGiving online fundraising platform has raised concerns that the public might lose confidence in online giving in general as a result.
Facebook was fundraising platform Justgiving's top referrer in the UK in 2014, with more than £60m donated to good causes advertised on the site.
Our findings may contribute not only to knowledge accumulation in crowdfunding research, but also to founders by offering evidence-based guidelines on the design of successful crowdfunding projects in an online fundraising platform.
