Latest Crowdfunding Articles on Chuffed.org

New Feature: Regular Giving on Chuffed.org

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You can now accept regular monthly donations alongside one-off donations on your crowdfunding campaign

Welcome to Apple Pay, Higher Conversions and More Transparency

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We've just released the biggest upgrade to our payment page that's ever happened - and it's stunningly better.

The Ultimate Guide to Crowdfunding for Schools

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Want to know how your school can raise funds for your playground, programs, excursions or anything else you need funding for? Here's everything you need to know.

The Ultimate Crowdfunding Guide for Health Charities

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At Chuffed.org, we want to see our awesome campaigners run the most successful crowdfunding campaigns they possible can and we know how important a crowdfunding campaign page is to crowdfunding success. This guide for health charities explains how to create strong campaign pages that underpin successful crowdfunding campaigns.

The Ultimate Guide to Crowdfunding for Environmental Charities

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At Chuffed.org, we want to see our awesome campaigners run the most successful crowdfunding campaigns they possible can and we know how important a crowdfunding campaign page is to crowdfunding success. This guide for environmental conservation and advocacy organisations explains how to create strong campaign pages that underpin successful crowdfunding campaigns.

The Top 10 Animal Welfare Crowdfunding Campaigns

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At Chuffed.org, we are privileged to see amazing campaigns launch every day. These are the Top 10 Animal Welfare Crowdfunding Campaigns - the ones that have raised the most money for their awesome projects and initiatives with Chuffed.org.

The Top 5 Environment Crowdfunding Campaigns

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At Chuffed.org, we are privileged to see amazing campaigns launch every day. These are the Top 5 Environment Crowdfunding Campaigns - the ones that have raised the most money for their awesome projects and initiatives with Chuffed.org.

London's First Crowdfunding Accelerator for Social Causes

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An 8 Week Crowdfunding Bootcamp for charities, social entrepreneurs and individuals looking to raise their impact by running a successful crowdfunding campaign.

Join the Crowd

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Meet other people making a difference and get support for your cause!

We Just Raised $20 Million

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Thanks to all of you, our amazing community, we're announcing that you've donated $20 Million to over 7,000 campaigns on Chuffed.org.

Welcome to Chuffed.org Teams

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Building a team is the single most successful way of increasing how much you raise in a crowdfunding campaign. We've just built some features to make it much easier.

How to Recover From a Slow Start to Your Campaign

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So you launched your crowdfunding campaign and it doesn't go as successfully as you thought it would. What do you do now?

Quick tip: How to create a compelling campaign video in under 90 minutes

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The most effective crowdfunding campaigns use video. In this quick tip, you’ll learn the step-by-step process for adding a little cinematic magic to your campaign in just 90 minutes.

Quick tip: The most popular perks in the history of Chuffed.org

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What makes for a great donor reward? In our previous research on the best crowdfunding perks, we’ve found three categories that work well. Today, we’re going to look at some of the most popular perks of all time to get your creative juices flowing.

How to Build a Team to Crowdfund $91,400 for Asylum Seekers

Case Studies

You have a big vision, you want to raise a large amount of funds for your cause, but you don't have a team? Read this to find out how Libby and Caroline built a team to Crowdfund $91,400 for Asylum Seekers

The Secret Crowdfunding Strategies to Crush Four Stretch Goals in a Row

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Do you set your crowdfunding goal high or low? Is it better to smash through a small target or inspire with a huge target. Kieron did both. This is how.

Running a Community Event? Here’s How To Make It Wildly Successful Using Crowdfunding

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How do you build a massively successful community event and transform it into a movement than just a ticket-selling spree? Use crowdfunding.

The Ultimate Crowdfunding Guide For Animal Rescue Groups

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A guide for animal rescue groups, shelters and individuals who want to use crowdfunding to raise funds to pay vet bills or help care for animals in need

5 Steps to get PR for your Crowdfunding Campaign

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Getting media coverage is a great way to increase awareness about your crowdfunding campaign and access new supporters. We take you through the 5 steps you need to follow to get you coverage.

Crowdfunding for Legal Action - Australia for Dolphins Case Study

Case Studies

How do you get a marine park to release its captive dolphins? You sue them for falsely advertising that their dolphins are happy and healthy in captivity. But legal cases are expensive. That's where crowdfunding comes in.

How to Run a Campaign so Successful You Hit Two Stretch Goals

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Nat Panzarino and Fer Wicker had an idea for a book that would support greyhound rescue organisations. But to get a book published is expensive. This is the story of how they raised $28,871 and brought Pointy Pembleton to life.

5 Team Crowdfunding Campaigns That Blasted Through Their Targets

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Team Crowdfunding is a new way to get others to crowdfund for you. They can set up their own individual fundraising pages with all the money adding up on your main crowdfunding page. Here's 5 examples.

The future of regular giving is rockbands

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Crowdfunding is just for one off projects, right? In the early days that was right, but now innovative charities have discovered a way to run regular crowdfunding campaigns that raise funds and grow their audience

What we've learnt from over 100,000 donations on Chuffed.org

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Chuffed.org just hit $10 MILLION raised on the platform. We analysed over 100,000 donations to show you some interesting patterns.

[Podcast] - Episode 2: Home STREAT Home

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Donors say they want the line by line itemisation about where there money is going, but do they really want that? And should donors even be telling social enterprises where to spend their money? That's just a couple of the questions we jump into with the STREAT team as they launch their second crowd

[Podcast] - Episode 1: Home STREAT Home

Podcasts

STREAT CEO and co-founder, Rebecca Scott tells us the story of how they took a donation of $4,000, transformed it into $80,000 crowdfunding campaign and launched their new $160,000 social enterprise cafe.

3 Top Tips from Edgar's Mission's $162,458 Crowfunding Campaign

Case Studies

In 2014, Edgar's Mission broke crowdfunding records, raising $162,458 in their first crowdfunding campaign. We explore how they did it and what lessons they learnt

How Crowdfunding Saved The Sawtell Cinema

Case Studies

In July 2015, the Sawtell Cinema crowdfunded $142,500 to keep its doors open. In this case study we look at how the community group used Facebook, Email, PR and Offline to fundraise one of the biggest campaigns in Australia