Comments on: TC50: Causecast, One Stop Philanthropy Shop

By: ed

ed — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:49:35 +0000

Hi All

Sounds like lots of people are doing great work.

1.
Here are lots of reasons why any company (yes the one you work in;) should donate a high percentage and ideally 100% to innovative charities http://www.traidmark.org as it increases your companies goodwill which is key in the digital age. Please comment on this point on the Traidmark.org website so others can find it.

You create profit and then use that to fund the development of innovation to solve humanities problems rather than having it wasted on millionaires selfish lifestyle choices.

2.
One problem with the web is that things get duplicated so if there are more than one org doing the same thing it would be great if your could collaborate to reduce wasteful duplication.

http://www.whymandesign.com

By: Sumit Chachra

Sumit Chachra — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:55:15 +0000

SocialVibe is pasting advertizing / logos on social profiles.

CauseCast seems similar to Facebook causes or change.org etc.

By: Sumit Chachra

Sumit Chachra — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:53:06 +0000

Seed funded, so am guessing for-profit!

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By: Mike R.

Mike R. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:06 +0000

Ok I just looked again at the two, and causecast even ripped off SocialVibes logo and some other features. lol.

By: Mike R.

Mike R. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:16:12 +0000

I’m very confused. Isn’t this a rip off of sites like SocialVibe that are killing it in this area? I just don’t see the value in Causecast.org.

By: Anna Kupka

Anna Kupka — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:25:50 +0000

Hi Ryan, yes, looks good – congratulations. We have built something similar in http://www.ammado.com. AS you said – the more people do it the better. WE have +2000 nonprofits on the site today and they are very thankful indeed. On the other hand – myspace, bebo etc. offer nonprofit services as well and for the nonprofits it’s a question of how to allocate resources (in this case time). ammado has a similar bizdev model to yours but with corporate partners you will always have problems in promoting their names on other social networks – facebook for example wouldn’t allow it. Check out social vibes as well.

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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:02:55 +0000

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:03:50 +0000

Do they have J-Lo?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:03:14 +0000

As I understand it there is a non-profit that handles all donation pass-through and a for-profit that runs the business.

By: Adam Jackson

Adam Jackson — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:27:09 +0000

Ryan – congrats on the launch – the site looks great and the model is brilliant. People always feel a little uneasy when facilitators skim money from the donations. Nobody feels bad when you get it from corporate sponsors that are trying to associate themselves with good causes. Brilliant!

By: JD Lasica

JD Lasica — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:15:40 +0000

Willy, Causecast is both a for-profit and a not-for-profit. They’d have to explain how that works.

And btw, it’s Causecast.org, not Causecast.com.

By: Jerome Chouraqui

Jerome Chouraqui — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:00:58 +0000

This kind of site has been around for a while. In France, http://www.jeveuxaider.org has been up for the last 5 years. Brilliant idea but nothing new, nore the business model.

By: Willy

Willy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:08:43 +0000

Is Causecast a non-profit or for-profit organization?

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:04:22 +0000

fair enough Aleksy …

By: Aleksey Korzun

Aleksey Korzun — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:57:38 +0000

Yeah Rob, get your own coverage please.

Besides the fact that your web site has no credibility, no contract information, no tax deduction or company registration and your domain is registered at discount domains with privacy guard.

Jesus.. yes you will be leading authority but not in donation services.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:38:47 +0000

I’ve just created a donation website that lets anybody organizations or individuals create a Request and ask for donations. My site doesn’t take anything either. The only people that take money are the payment gateway providers, in this case there is only one at this stage – Paypal. Please come visit my site and tell me what you think (http://www,requestfunds.com). Oh and I think my site will become the leading authority in donation services

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:50:31 +0000

It’s a brilliant and an exciting concept! Causes everywhere will thank you..

By: Ryan Scott

Ryan Scott — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:38:04 +0000

Just to clarify the model -

We take nothing from non-profits or leaders or individuals – no transaction fees go to us. What we do is charge major brands for ’cause-marketing’. They can sponsor campaigns to raise money or awareness for a particular cause. We will charge them for the marketing. We can also use the brand relationship to generate more donations by encouraging the companies to do things like match donations.

Basically, they can sponsor the site, sponsor videos, or sponsor the widget. This allows us to pay for the infrastructure, so we don’t have to charge the organizations anything.

We take no transaction fees.

By: Levi Felix

Levi Felix — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:34:18 +0000

Hi John,

Just to clarify, with Causecast donations are 100% tax-deductible and Causecast does not take a fee. We empower people to give what they can and feel good knowing that they are directly affecting change.

We want to make it easy for people to get involved with Causes and we provide the one stop shop to make this happen.

Thanks!

In cause,
Levi

By: cj little

cj little — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:50:20 +0000

Good work Sloane – looking good! Congrats on CauseCast!