Indiegogo Launches ‘Generosity by Indiegogo’
Biggest Fundraising Platform for Nonprofits, Personal Funding & Social Causes Without Restrictions or Platform Fees
SAN FRANCISCO, October 19, 2015 – Indiegogo, the world’s largest online funding platform, today announced the re-launch of Indiegogo Life as ‘Generosity by Indiegogo’, the easiest way for people worldwide to directly support nonprofits, social causes and others in need. Generosity has zero platform fees, allowing fundraisers to keep all the funds they raise.
Generosity by Indiegogo is the new home for all personal cause and charitable fundraisers powered by Indiegogo’s powerful, global crowdfunding engine. Using the best tools in the industry and building on Indiegogo’s commitment to social impact funding, the new Generosity by Indiegogo offers:
No platform fees: Completely free for personal and social cause fundraisers.
No deadlines: Fundraisers can run indefinitely, without an end date
Fundraising tools: Robust, cause-tailoredfundraising tools
Flexibility: Indiegogo’s industry-leading API enables nonprofits to mirror Generosity fundraisers on their own website
Simple fundraiser set-up: A streamlined setup process enabling people to start a fundraiser in just a few minutes
Massive reach: The global Indiegogo platform reaches 15 million visitors a month
“Generosity by Indiegogo is the perfect way to make sure anyone, anywhere can support the nonprofits and social causes that matter to them,” said Slava Rubin, CEO of Indiegogo. “Whether it’s in response to a natural disaster, humanitarian crisis or for an important charitable cause, fundraising on Generosity by Indiegogo is literally changing lives for the better.”
Generosity’s unique and powerful offerings have already proven popular with the nonprofit community, and will launch with four major and very diverse nonprofit campaigns. Positive Planet has partnered with local NGO partner Makhzoumi Foundation in Lebanon to help Syrian Refugees transition and thrive by starting small businesses; Khan Academy Lite, a branch of Khan Academy will raise funds to bring learning networks and educational content to people with no internet connection. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is fundraising to provide 100 Bay Area blood cancer patients a stipend to help with treatment-related costs including lodging and transportation. And finally, Project Scientist is creating Summer Academies STEM Expeditions for girls to explore, learn, and be inspired by female STEM professionals. Existing indiegogo Life campaigns will seamlessly transition to Generosity.com with no interruption to the fundraiser.
Indiegogo launched in 2008 as the world’s first crowdfunding platform. The company is the worldwide leader in crowdfunding campaigns across a wide variety of areas, including entrepreneurial ventures, creative projects, tech/hardware, social initiatives and personal cause. Indiegogo has hosted more than 300,000 campaigns in 224 countries and territories, five currencies and four languages.
About Indiegogo
Indiegogo empowers people around the world to fund what matters to them. As the largest global crowdfunding platform, campaigns have launched from almost every country around the world with millions of dollars being distributed every week due to contributions made by the Indiegogo community. At its core, Indiegogo is an open platform dedicated to democratizing the way people raise funds for any project – creative, entrepreneurial or cause-related. The company was launched in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles and New York. For more information, visit www.indiegogo.com and follow us at http://www.twitter.com/indiegogo and www.facebook.com/indiegogo.
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