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Exciting News From CommitChange
Today, we are excited to announce that Software for Good, GBC, has acquired the assets of CommitChange. The CommitChange team will still be providing the same hands-on support, reliable donation processing, crowdfunding, and event management under the newly formed company CommitChange, LLC. Software for Good is a General Benefit Company based out of Minneapolis, MN,…
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Access Our CITY Newspaper Case Study for Free
CITY News is Rochester’s monthly news, arts, and life publication, and has been in print since 1971. When they came to CommitChange at the beginning of 2020, they’d seen other news companies move to online donations and knew it was an inevitable next step. But once the pandemic hit, they quickly realized they’d need to…
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Open Insulin Foundation: Increasing Access to Life-saving Drugs
CommitChange creates fundraising tools for organizations like OIF to raise funds needed to continue their work. As of this writing, The Open Insulin Foundation has raised nearly $90,000 on CommitChange for its effort to democratize the production and distribution of insulin.
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Fundraising Lessons: Food Banks
We’ve been working alongside food banks since 2012 and have seen hundreds of different fundraising strategies along the way. Core social service nonprofits tend to be the most resource constrained because operational efficiency translates into lives affected, but that can lead to a culture of perpetual desperation — which can trap development teams in cycles…
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How Radiotopia Raised $750K in Annual Recurring Donations
One of my favorite examples of sustainable fundraising is Radiotopia, a nonprofit that funds the operational costs for podcasts like 99% Invisible, Criminal, and The Heart. They launched on Kickstarter in 2014 and raised over $620,000 in one-time donations; then they realized that Kickstarter wasn’t going to be sustainable for ongoing fundraising. They reached…
Author: Wendy Bolm
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Leading with Values
In this age of rapid technological change, accelerating climate crisis, and political instability, it’s more important than ever for mission-driven organizations to consider the implications of the decisions we make every day. Here at CommitChange, it’s our privilege to help the nonprofits who use our platform grapple with the ethical challenges of doing good in…
