Quick and Dirty Fundraising

Lucy Bernholz, author of the blog Philanthropy 2173 sent us an email this morning pointing to her recent post mentioning "quick and dirty fundraising".  This is not a bad description of some of the ways that online fundraising pages can be used.  We’d like to think that our features make online fundraising "quick and clean", but we appreciate the concept.

Lucy talks about small community-based fundraising needs such as building a new dog park, or funding a school field trip:
"FirstGiving is close to an idea I’ve been thinking about for awhile -
web campaigns for one-time, quick and dirty fundraising needs. For
example, raising money for a local dog park, getting funds together for
a street fair, getting the fifth graders to Washington, DC, etc.. This
is the old fashioned "bakesale" moved onto the web. FirstGiving is not
this – although its still cool. It allows anybody to quickly create a
fundraising campaign for a registered nonprofit of their choice.
"

These "micro-fundraising" needs, so to speak, are served well by online fundraising tools. 
Firstgiving can help by letting a fundraiser organizer set up a fundraising page and having the funds directed to their nonprofit group or an umbrella community group (cities frequently have a tax-exempt city account); fundraising pages display the total raised online, so it’s easy to keep track of the funds raised for a specific project.

Great minds, you know?