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20 Crowdfunding Services for Nonprofits Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits in North America, Europe, and Australia have a multitude of online fundraising services to choose from mostly thanks to their government’s efforts to build digital records and databases of legally verified nonprofits. Doare (Brazil). CanadaHelps. canadahelps.org. Crowdrise (Canada and the United States).

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Philanthropy and policing

Candid

I remember visiting a university in Brazil where a police reform course was being taught with a classroom of students and police officers. He did so by summoning the courage to tell his captain that students’ experience with police in Brazil had been one of repression and that they would run from anyone in uniform.

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. In the US, corporate finance was bailed out of its speculation-gone-awry after being deemed “too big to fail” by the Federal government.

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