Are you passionate about a cause but cannot raise the money?

Since we changed focus on the start up I cofounded (www.knudger.com) at the Dublin Web Summit from an individual focus to fundraising for clubs, associations and charities, the funding gap for these organisations has become even more evident.

Many over stretched themselves in the good times, many just have big overheads and most have painful decisions to make.  Many GAA clubs we have spoken to are facing deficits of over €30,000 and raising subscriptions at best gets a very negative reaction.

Fundraising takes time and anything that can generate money and take the least amount of members time is likely to fall on receptive ears.

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Knudger.com helps to solve part of this problem for clubs but a lot of voluntary organisations we spoke to were still finding getting donations and collecting money from fundraising events a real drain and disappointing.

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With this in mind we have built a prototype crowd funding platform (www.PledgUp.com) where people can use their networks to fundraise for almost anything.  We have tried to make it as simple and painless as possible for people to set up project they are passionate about and want to raise money for.  Once they are set up they can ask for straight forward donations via credit card or link it to a fundraising initiative such as a sponsored walk.  We have built in lots of additional functionality and now looking for early adopters to try it out for us.

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We are trying to broaden the range of things that people could fundraise for by making it simple.  Obvious areas are sports clubs or schools looking to raise money for new premises/equipment or who are running a 10K and want an online way of collecting the money.  However how about the couple getting married in a recession who want guests and friends to help fund the wedding rather than buying them another toaster.  Or the Tidy Towns committee looking to fund a town makeover through their large group of potential donors who have emigrated.  Quite often small organisations or people who have little resources have very connected networks.  We are trying to help them leverage that network and make it easy for people to donate.

 So if you are a sports clubs or an association or individual looking to raise money for a project you are passionate about we would love to hear from you.

The prototype is on www.pledgup.com but if you are interest please drop me a line at eoin at knudger.com (put in @ instead of at – trying to avoid spam) and I would be delighted to support and help you through the process.

eoin@knudger.com