Ask HN: Best startups related to non-profits/charities?
When you think of startups in the non-profit/charity space, what comes to mind? (The startups themselves do not have to be non-profits or charities.)
Turn your blippy account into a fund raising machine. Every time you make a purchase and review it on Blippy we round it up to the nearest dollar and allow you to give it to your favoriate charity.
We just launched the blippy integration and would love any feedback!
Edit: This is a cool video where the founder talks about how he considers zynga to be their biggest rival. http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/13/kiva-ceo-on-the-next-5-year...
Historically, different groups of people have tried to solve the problem of attention together given their status quo; right now, I feel like those people are mostly in marketing and business/product strategy. The problem can't be "solved" in the traditional sense, but I'm glad to see companies like Kiva are actually doing something to address it in their industry (in addition to just thinking, which is what it seems most non-profits are doing), as attention-winning/holding concerns all non-profits.
A Singaporean startup called give.sg has been getting a lot of local press recently. It allows people to create fund-raising campaigns easily for their causes, while they take a small percentage of donations for processing fees. http://give.sg
What if there were a site where non-profit orgs, non-government orgs or charity orgs can post 'jobs' (unpaid) on a website and people can volunteer themselves to particular jobs?
I believe there are sites for it. But, how about points being given for each job actually done?
What if people can compete for max points in a time? and the winner gets a prize from a company which wants to 'encourage' good stuff for their own marketing purposes or whatever? (the prize gotta be a 'bonus' not the main attraction, otherwise it may not fly in the long run, hmm.. or who knows)
Would that result in more people doing more volunteering stuff?
A platform like facebook can easily implement such stuff, probably. and get some 'good' rub off too