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Donation Dashboard: Colloborative Charity Filter

Started by sbspalding · 12 months ago

Thousands of non-profit organizations exist, and if you’ve ever tried to find one that you’re interested in you’ll know how much of a challenge it can be. Luckily, using an algorithm called Eigentaste, University of Berkeley researchers want to make it a little bit easier.

The site is called Donation Dashboard and it is [...]




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  • ophelia_chong

    12 months ago

    The Los Angeles Times had a brilliant article on charity giving, and where the money goes. For-profit fundraisers collect loads, but nonprofits see a sliverBy Charles Piller and Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    July 6, 2008

    http://tinyurl.com/566x2v

    From the article:
    * More than 100 charities raised $1 million or more from commercial appeals but netted less than 25 cents per dollar. Fundraisers got the rest.

    * In 430 campaigns, charities got nothing: All $44 million donated went to fundraisers. In 337 of those cases, charities actually lost money, paying fees to fundraisers that exceeded the amount raised.

    * In hundreds of other campaigns, charities apparently entered into contracts that limited their share of donations to 20% or less, no matter how successful the campaign.
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  • sbspalding

    12 months ago

    Which leads me to believe there has to be a more effective way to raise funds. Especially now that marketing channels are so open, it seems ludicrous that fund raisers would have this much sway.

    I am certain there are tons of fundraisers out there that are worth their fees, but those fundraisers likely charge reasonable fees.

    Free idea for the ether - How do we use social media to help raise funds for causes? Kiva? Fundable? Anything for larger scale funding?
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  • Business networking

    12 months ago

    Donation dashboard is good because it shows you the "efficiency" for each organization. It shows you that if you donate to a group like second harvest 95% of your donation will go to help those in need. Compared to some of the other groups at 74% (no names).
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  • sbspalding

    12 months ago

    I agree. It's really nice to see how much of your money is going to bureaucracy.
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