How can I raise money through friends online?

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Myself and my partner (long distance) are dying to meet. A lot of people we know online know this, and many have offered to help. We both have complicated problems with this, because if we accept any one offer of help, we will feel pretty guilty about accepting offers. We are already saving anyway, but both of our efforts combined are not going to get us together within a reasonable time frame. It has been a year already.

I have realised just how many offers of help there have been, and wondered about perhaps setting up some sort of online pot that our friends are welcome to anonymously add to. I am just completely unaware of how to go about this. We'd both have to be able to access it, and there would need to be some sort of public page showing a target amount and amount raised so far. Also hopefully with some sort of temptation-killer function, preventing anything from being withdrawn until the target is reached lol

I have googled along the lines of fundraising, but all results I've looked at so far have been about charities and non-profit organisations. With this being a private endeavour, and not a charitable organisation, I decided those results are not what I was looking for.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

You should have a look on Rewarding Fundraising Ideas at the accepting donations online page. You'll find a few options there.

You could also read up on some of the online fundraisers that might be an option for you to use where you can raise money and the people helping you can get something back for it. For example the online magazine subscription fundraiser... http://www.rewarding-fundraising-ideas.com/magazine-fundraisers.html

I've also heard of an online donations company that will take credit card pledges from people but won't draw the pledged amount out until the target amount is reached. People will also be able to see how much has been pledged and how much still needs to be pledged before the target is hit.

It's such a great idea as you won't be abke to draw money out until the target is reached and the pledges are drawn from people's credit cards, and if the target is never reached people won't lose their money.

Unfortunatley I can't remember of hand what the company name is or what the website is called but I'll have a look for it and then drop a comment on this question with the site's name. 

Hope this helps.

Rob

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