#generosity.com

[quirksforall-blog]

THE GENEROSITY CAMPAIGN IS LIVE OCT 2- NOV 2!

QUIRKS FOR ALL is a non-profit Boku no Hero Academia fanzine for Youth Justice!

The zine is a 6x9in, softcover, perfect-bound book featuring 90+ pages of full-color art and original characters! 45 Artists have brought you this awesome collection of inspiration!

Featuring: Canarielle// ShiftD// Mitsouparker// ABV// limb// Vivs// Aseuki// Mirshroom// AJ// eyJoey// Stephanie Hamblin// tuna// Samachiichan// Kay Fine// Carlysins// Jonsocks// Babyfrills// diaxlr// v03// Goodnight2sday// Pajuxi// VeeLewandowski// Ruru// Prinsomnia// LevaSauciunaite// NaomiRomero// Orion// eggramen// BrandiPayne// LauraGuglielmo// DICEShimi// RyanEagle// Sabu// Fsnowzombie// Lyrae// Fizznak// Lee// MandaS// Caitlann// Tempsa// SicklyBoring// Ariesayu// Nerdfromthenet// Nhuuy// Lunacias

Please consider picking up a copy of the zine (PDFs are available) and supporting our generosity campaign during Youth Justice Awareness Month!

Also if you hurry you can get some of our bundles featuring stickers, prints and our SUPER LIMITED EDITION Recovery Girl Pin! There’s only a few available! All proceeds from the campaign/zine will be donated to the Campaign for Youth Justice.

Tumblr Raffle! Reblog this post for a chance to win a free copy of the zine or a full refund if you’ve already backed the campaign! One entry per person. Two Winners announced when the campaign ends!

[polyrolemodels]

Only 3 days left!

We’re in the final stretch of the book tour campaign. It ends on February 10th at 8pm PST. I start packing and shipping out books on February 11th. So, this is your last chance to get an early copy. While there are still a couple of tour stop locations up in the air, this has been a tremendous success! I’m completely overwhelmed by the amount of support this campaign has received. Let’s finish strong!

[spitshinepoetry]

Every year, UT Spitshine sends a team of 5 poets to CUPSI (a national collegiate level poetry competition). Support the team by donating and sharing the fundraiser! Any amount helps <3

[strategicacts]

STRATEGIC ACTS DONATION — OCTOBER 2017

On the 9th of every month, the anniversary of the morning after the 2016 election, we will donate to an organization engaged in the hard work of standing against and undoing the damage of the presidency a minority of voters put into place. In tribute to Hillary Clinton’s greater share of the popular vote, we will donate $48.20 to the organization in question and invite others to join us in doing the same. The original post that explains it all is here. 

(Image via CBS News)

We are closing in on a year of this endeavor of putting our money where outrage is. More specifically, our household looked at the rhetoric of those moving into the U.S. Executive branch — and the predominating experience of those being given high-ranking positions — and determined that the federal government was about to slide into a period of colossal ineffectiveness. And that was the most generous projection.

Even beginning with that grim prediction, the regular procession of ineptitude has been astounding, especially when it has been coupled with a lack of basic empathy that borders on the inhuman. How can someone in a major leadership position view once-in-a-lifetime natural disaster devastation brought down upon U.S. citizens and emerge mostly chagrined that they as an individual aren’t getting enough credit for associated relief efforts? How can someone be so utterly lacking in humility that they follow a meeting with people who have lost everything by being sure to assert, “And also when I walked in the cheering was incredible.”

Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 20th. As of October 7th — nearly three weeks later — approximately 90 percent of the population was still without electricity, and over half the citizenry did not have ready access to drinking water. Puerto Rican officials have felt the need to literally plead for assistance through any forum available to them, largely to churlish indifference from the federal government. Just today, the governor of Puerto Rico — a U.S. territory where everyone is a full-fledged citizen of the “most powerful nation in the world” — wrote to Congressional leaders, noting a mounting inability of their “central and municipal governments to meet basic human needs.”

This is not — it should go without saying, writing, or implying — how things are supposed to work. It goes beyond the strained, unwieldy, insufficient response to Hurricane Katrina’s leveling of New Orleans. This is callous abdication of one of the federal government’s most fundamental roles, perpetrated by brutish figures who perversely can’t stop patting themselves on the back for their imagined genius and heroism. 

According to their website, ConPRmetidos is “an independent, non-partisan and non-profit organization operating from San Juan, Puerto Rico since 2012″ with a stated mission of “connecting people to foster commitment with the personal, social, and economic development of the Puerto Rican communities.”

Under the current circumstances, ConPRmetidos has understandably shifted its focus somewhat. The organization has established the “Maria: Puerto Rico Real-Time Recovery Fund,” promising that every dime donated will go to providing long-term relief in the U.S. territory. As of right now, the organization lays out their priorities thusly: 

We are currently financing (1) needs assessment efforts, (2)  long-term structural repairs to the most vulnerable communities, and (3) power as a service.

There are a multitude of tremendous organizations responding to the needs of Puerto Rico with comprehensive, generous efforts. To our eyes, ConPRmetidos is approaching the enormous task ahead with a admirable balance of addressing immediate and long-term needs.  

That’s why we’re giving the ConPRmetidos Maria: Puerto Rico Real-Time Recovery Fund our October 2017 donation of $48.20.

If you have the means, we humbly ask that you join us in doing so. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE GENEROSITY.COM WEBSITE ESTABLISHED BY CONPRMETIDOS FOR THIS EFFORT.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Fundraising for Diego Gómez, grad student who faced criminal charges for sharing a scientific paper

Timothy from Creative Commons writes, "A few weeks ago Diego Gómez, the former Colombian student who's been prosecuted for sharing a research paper online, was acquitted of criminal charges.

"But the long arm of copyright is not through with Diego yet. The prosecution appealed the decision, meaning that even after several years of unnecessary (and expensive) criminal proceedings, Diego's case continues to the appellate court.

"Now he needs our help. Fundacion Karisma, the Colombian digital rights organisation that's been supporting Diego since the beginning, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for the ongoing legal expenses. The campaign is called 'Compartir no es delito: Sharing Is Not A Crime'; it's being supported by organisations like the EFF, Right to Research Coalition, and Creative Commons. "

Compartir no es delito: Sharing Is Not A Crime [Fundacion Karisma/Generosity.com]

https://boingboing.net/2017/06/12/sharing-is-caring.html

[un-enfant-immature]

IFTTT co-founder Linden Tibbets steps down as CEO, replaced by turnaround specialist Chris Kibarian

After raising $24 million in funding led by Salesforce in April 2018, the startup IFTTT — which provides an API platform so that people can create short scripts for apps to work together — has announced that its co-founder Linden Tibbets has stepped down as CEO after 10 years leading the company. Chris Kibarian, who most recently was the CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, has taken on the role, and joined the board in the process. Tibbets, meanwhile, is staying on as IFTTT’s chief design officer.

Kibarian is a self-described turnaround specialist who has worked across a diverse set of businesses. In addition to restructuring Monster — a legacy from the first dot-com boom that was acquired for $429 million in 2016 — it got causes-based crowdfunding platform YouCaring into fighting form under its private equity owner. (YouCaring eventually bought Generosity.com from Indiegogo and then itself got acquired by GoFundMe.)

At IFTTT, his task will be to “realize IFTTT’s full potential and become the connectivity platform trusted by every person and business in the world,” Tibbets notes in a Medium post.

It’s notable that when IFTTT announced $24 million in funding last year, it was the first infusion of money to come to the company in four years — a relatively long time in the world of Silicon Valley startups. In the interim the company had made a few moves to launch new products, including those generating revenue, but had largely operated without much fanfare or attention (a little like the functional premise of IFTTT itself, to be honest).

On the other hand, the startup has some strong investors who appear to be rooting for it. In addition to Salesforce, its backers include IBM and the Chamberlain Group (best known for a variety of brands for automatic entry gates and garage door openers), Fenox Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Betaworks, Greylock, NEA, Norwest, SV Angels and more.

And in another, if modest, sign of optimism, between 2014 and 2018 IFTTT’s valuation went up. Its current valuation, according to PitchBook, is $249 million, compared to its post-money valuation of just under $210 million in 2014.

However, looking at the wider industry, you can see where IFTTT may have stalled in its growth, or at least in realising its full potential, as Tibbets puts it.

Tibbets writes that 2018 was “the best year in our company’s history” — noting record usage and over 700 services available for linking on its platform across verticals like retail, banking, food, automotive, government, health, education, and entertainment — but he doesn’t break out any specific usage numbers.

Last year, when it announced funding, the company said it had 14 million registered consumers (it did not disclose how many were active), 75 million Applets since launch, more than 5,000 active developers building services and more than 140,000 building Applets on the IFTTT Platform. Products from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, BMW, Samsung, IBM, MyQ, and Verizon are among those touched by IFTTT scripts.

However, the wider landscape for connecting different apps together (IFTTT stands for “if this then that”) has been a tricky one to develop as a business.

Ordinary consumers — beyond early-adopting power users — may not be as likely to want to build such scripts (or “recipes” as IFTTT once called them before rebranding to “Applets”), and the most obvious integrations now often come as standard features in products or apps themselves.

Developers, meanwhile, may want to write their own scripts or use more sophisticated platforms that can provide deeper analytics or functionality around an integration. (For example, there are competing services like Microsoft’s Flow, and products that provide their own integration functionality that replace the need for using IFTTT, such as Alexa from Amazon, even while there are also ways to write integration scripts for Amazon products via IFTTT.)

“The biggest development in 2018 wasn’t growth in usage or our ecosystem, but growth for our business,” Tibbets writes tellingly. “We found concrete validation that connectivity is a real challenge for any brand looking to grow and retain their customers.”

I had thought that was actually IFTTT’s mission from the start. More to the point, if Kibarian can best figure out how to fit IFTTT into the current market, then that might turn out to be the most lucrative Applet of all.

[ecosentido]

We are the MAN: Mutual Aid Networks from Mutual Aid Networks on Vimeo.

What would it look like if everyone were doing the work they loved; what they felt called to do? What if everyone had the opportunity to build their skills to their maximum capabilities and then apply them to making their communities whole and beautiful?

Mutual Aid Networks are a new type of cooperative, designed to connect us in a network of mutual support that creates means for us to do exactly what we want to do with our lives, from solving hard problems to taking care of loved ones and neighbors to making art.

Please contribute at generosity.com/community-fundraising/we-are-the-man-mutual-aid-networks

For more information, visit mutualaidnetwork.org

[quirksforall-blog]

ORDER YOURS NOW AND SUPPORT A GREAT CAUSE! 

Hey everyone! 

Thanks so much for the support already! One week in and we’ve already got a bunch of people sending in donations pre-ordering the zine! Above is a little preview of the hard work from all the artists! A special thank you to them for providing such great art and spreading the word about the zine! <3 

You can still get a PDF or physical copy of the zine (and other goodies) - HERE!

We appreciate any reblogs to help support the artists and a great cause!

Quirks For All is a Boku No Hero Academia OC Fanzine in support of The Campaign for Youth Justice! The campaign will run Oct 2-Nov 2, 2017 during Youth Justice Awareness Month.

[readersforum]

IFTTT co-founder Linden Tibbets steps down as CEO, replaced by turnaround specialist Chris Kibarian

New Post has been published on http://www.readersforum.tk/ifttt-co-founder-linden-tibbets-steps-down-as-ceo-replaced-by-turnaround-specialist-chris-kibarian/

IFTTT co-founder Linden Tibbets steps down as CEO, replaced by turnaround specialist Chris Kibarian

After raising $24 million in funding led by Salesforce in April 2018, the startup IFTTT — which provides an API platform so that people can create short scripts for apps to work together — has announced that its co-founder Linden Tibbets has stepped down as CEO after 10 years leading the company. Chris Kibarian, who most recently was the CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, has taken on the role, and joined the board in the process. Tibbets, meanwhile, is staying on as IFTTT’s chief design officer.

Kibarian is a self-described turnaround specialist who has worked across a diverse set of businesses. In addition to restructuring Monster — a legacy from the first dot-com boom that was acquired for $429 million in 2016 — it got causes-based crowdfunding platform YouCaring into fighting form under its private equity owner. (YouCaring eventually bought Generosity.com from Indiegogo and then itself got acquired by GoFundMe.)

At IFTTT, his task will be to “realize IFTTT’s full potential and become the connectivity platform trusted by every person and business in the world,” Tibbets notes in a Medium post.

It’s notable that when IFTTT announced $24 million in funding last year, it was the first infusion of money to come to the company in four years — a relatively long time in the world of Silicon Valley startups. In the interim the company had made a few moves to launch new products, including those generating revenue, but had largely operated without much fanfare or attention (a little like the functional premise of IFTTT itself, to be honest).

On the other hand, the startup has some strong investors who appear to be rooting for it. In addition to Salesforce, its backers include IBM and the Chamberlain Group (best known for a variety of brands for automatic entry gates and garage door openers), Fenox Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Betaworks, Greylock, NEA, Norwest, SV Angels and more.

And in another, if modest, sign of optimism, between 2014 and 2018 IFTTT’s valuation went up. Its current valuation, according to PitchBook, is $249 million, compared to its post-money valuation of just under $210 million in 2014.

However, looking at the wider industry, you can see where IFTTT may have stalled in its growth, or at least in realising its full potential, as Tibbets puts it.

Tibbets writes that 2018 was “the best year in our company’s history” — noting record usage and over 700 services available for linking on its platform across verticals like retail, banking, food, automotive, government, health, education, and entertainment — but he doesn’t break out any specific usage numbers.

Last year, when it announced funding, the company said it had 14 million registered consumers (it did not disclose how many were active), 75 million Applets since launch, more than 5,000 active developers building services and more than 140,000 building Applets on the IFTTT Platform. Products from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, BMW, Samsung, IBM, MyQ, and Verizon are among those touched by IFTTT scripts.

However, the wider landscape for connecting different apps together (IFTTT stands for “if this then that”) has been a tricky one to develop as a business.

Ordinary consumers — beyond early-adopting power users — may not be as likely to want to build such scripts (or “recipes” as IFTTT once called them before rebranding to “Applets”), and the most obvious integrations now often come as standard features in products or apps themselves.

Developers, meanwhile, may want to write their own scripts or use more sophisticated platforms that can provide deeper analytics or functionality around an integration. (For example, there are competing services like Microsoft’s Flow, and products that provide their own integration functionality that replace the need for using IFTTT, such as Alexa from Amazon, even while there are also ways to write integration scripts for Amazon products via IFTTT.)

“The biggest development in 2018 wasn’t growth in usage or our ecosystem, but growth for our business,” Tibbets writes tellingly. “We found concrete validation that connectivity is a real challenge for any brand looking to grow and retain their customers.”

I had thought that was actually IFTTT’s mission from the start. More to the point, if Kibarian can best figure out how to fit IFTTT into the current market, then that might turn out to be the most lucrative Applet of all.

[polyrolemodels]

Only 5 days left!

We’re in the final stretch of the book tour campaign. It ends on February 10th at 8pm PST. I start packing and shipping out books on February 11th. So, this is your last chance to get an early copy. While there are still a couple of tour stop locations up in the air, this has been a tremendous success! I’m completely overwhelmed by the amount of support this campaign has received. Let’s finish strong!

[toomanysinks]

IFTTT co-founder Linden Tibbets steps down as CEO, replaced by turnaround specialist Chris Kibarian

After raising $24 million in funding led by Salesforce in April 2018, the startup IFTTT — which provides an API platform so that people can create short scripts for apps to work together — has announced that its co-founder Linden Tibbets has stepped down as CEO after 10 years leading the company. Chris Kibarian, who most recently was the CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, has taken on the role, and joined the board in the process. Tibbets, meanwhile, is staying on as IFTTT’s chief design officer.

Kibarian is a self-described turnaround specialist who has worked across a diverse set of businesses. In addition to restructuring Monster — a legacy from the first dot-com boom that was acquired for $429 million in 2016 — it got causes-based crowdfunding platform YouCaring into fighting form under its private equity owner. (YouCaring eventually bought Generosity.com from Indiegogo and then itself got acquired by GoFundMe.)

At IFTTT, his task will be to “realize IFTTT’s full potential and become the connectivity platform trusted by every person and business in the world,” Tibbets notes in a Medium post.

It’s notable that when IFTTT announced $24 million in funding last year, it was the first infusion of money to come to the company in four years — a relatively long time in the world of Silicon Valley startups. In the interim the company had made a few moves to launch new products, including those generating revenue, but had largely operated without much fanfare or attention (a little like the functional premise of IFTTT itself, to be honest).

On the other hand, the startup has some strong investors who appear to be rooting for it. In addition to Salesforce, its backers include IBM and the Chamberlain Group (best known for a variety of brands for automatic entry gates and garage door openers), Fenox Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Betaworks, Greylock, NEA, Norwest, SV Angels and more.

And in another, if modest, sign of optimism, between 2014 and 2018 IFTTT’s valuation went up. Its current valuation, according to PitchBook, is $249 million, compared to its post-money valuation of just under $210 million in 2014.

However, looking at the wider industry, you can see where IFTTT may have stalled in its growth, or at least in realising its full potential, as Tibbets puts it.

Tibbets writes that 2018 was “the best year in our company’s history” — noting record usage and over 700 services available for linking on its platform across verticals like retail, banking, food, automotive, government, health, education, and entertainment — but he doesn’t break out any specific usage numbers.

Last year, when it announced funding, the company said it had 14 million registered consumers (it did not disclose how many were active), 75 million Applets since launch, more than 5,000 active developers building services and more than 140,000 building Applets on the IFTTT Platform. Products from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, BMW, Samsung, IBM, MyQ, and Verizon are among those touched by IFTTT scripts.

However, the wider landscape for connecting different apps together (IFTTT stands for “if this then that”) has been a tricky one to develop as a business.

Ordinary consumers — beyond early-adopting power users — may not be as likely to want to build such scripts (or “recipes” as IFTTT once called them before rebranding to “Applets”), and the most obvious integrations now often come as standard features in products or apps themselves.

Developers, meanwhile, may want to write their own scripts or use more sophisticated platforms that can provide deeper analytics or functionality around an integration. (For example, there are competing services like Microsoft’s Flow, and products that provide their own integration functionality that replace the need for using IFTTT, such as Alexa from Amazon, even while there are also ways to write integration scripts for Amazon products via IFTTT.)

“The biggest development in 2018 wasn’t growth in usage or our ecosystem, but growth for our business,” Tibbets writes tellingly. “We found concrete validation that connectivity is a real challenge for any brand looking to grow and retain their customers.”

I had thought that was actually IFTTT’s mission from the start. More to the point, if Kibarian can best figure out how to fit IFTTT into the current market, then that might turn out to be the most lucrative Applet of all.

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/ifttt-co-founder-linden-tibbets-steps-down-as-ceo-replaced-by-turnaround-specialist-chris-kibarian/

[fmservers]

IFTTT co-founder Linden Tibbets steps down as CEO, replaced by turnaround specialist Chris Kibarian

After raising $24 million in funding led by Salesforce in April 2018, the startup IFTTT — which provides an API platform so that people can create short scripts for apps to work together — has announced that its co-founder Linden Tibbets has stepped down as CEO after 10 years leading the company. Chris Kibarian, who most recently was the CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, has taken on the role, and joined the board in the process. Tibbets, meanwhile, is staying on as IFTTT’s chief design officer.

Kibarian is a self-described turnaround specialist who has worked across a diverse set of businesses. In addition to restructuring Monster — a legacy from the first dot-com boom that was acquired for $429 million in 2016 — it got causes-based crowdfunding platform YouCaring into fighting form under its private equity owner. (YouCaring eventually bought Generosity.com from Indiegogo and then itself got acquired by GoFundMe.)

At IFTTT, his task will be to “realize IFTTT’s full potential and become the connectivity platform trusted by every person and business in the world,” Tibbets notes in a Medium post.

It’s notable that when IFTTT announced $24 million in funding last year, it was the first infusion of money to come to the company in four years — a relatively long time in the world of Silicon Valley startups. In the interim the company had made a few moves to launch new products, including those generating revenue, but had largely operated without much fanfare or attention (a little like the functional premise of IFTTT itself, to be honest).

On the other hand, the startup has some strong investors who appear to be rooting for it. In addition to Salesforce, its backers include IBM and the Chamberlain Group (best known for a variety of brands for automatic entry gates and garage door openers), Fenox Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Betaworks, Greylock, NEA, Norwest, SV Angels and more.

And in another, if modest, sign of optimism, between 2014 and 2018 IFTTT’s valuation went up. Its current valuation, according to PitchBook, is $249 million, compared to its post-money valuation of just under $210 million in 2014.

However, looking at the wider industry, you can see where IFTTT may have stalled in its growth, or at least in realising its full potential, as Tibbets puts it.

Tibbets writes that 2018 was “the best year in our company’s history” — noting record usage and over 700 services available for linking on its platform across verticals like retail, banking, food, automotive, government, health, education, and entertainment — but he doesn’t break out any specific usage numbers.

Last year, when it announced funding, the company said it had 14 million registered consumers (it did not disclose how many were active), 75 million Applets since launch, more than 5,000 active developers building services and more than 140,000 building Applets on the IFTTT Platform. Products from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, BMW, Samsung, IBM, MyQ, and Verizon are among those touched by IFTTT scripts.

However, the wider landscape for connecting different apps together (IFTTT stands for “if this then that”) has been a tricky one to develop as a business.

Ordinary consumers — beyond early-adopting power users — may not be as likely to want to build such scripts (or “recipes” as IFTTT once called them before rebranding to “Applets”), and the most obvious integrations now often come as standard features in products or apps themselves.

Developers, meanwhile, may want to write their own scripts or use more sophisticated platforms that can provide deeper analytics or functionality around an integration. (For example, there are competing services like Microsoft’s Flow, and products that provide their own integration functionality that replace the need for using IFTTT, such as Alexa from Amazon, even while there are also ways to write integration scripts for Amazon products via IFTTT.)

“The biggest development in 2018 wasn’t growth in usage or our ecosystem, but growth for our business,” Tibbets writes tellingly. “We found concrete validation that connectivity is a real challenge for any brand looking to grow and retain their customers.”

I had thought that was actually IFTTT’s mission from the start. More to the point, if Kibarian can best figure out how to fit IFTTT into the current market, then that might turn out to be the most lucrative Applet of all.

Via Ingrid Lunden https://techcrunch.com

[abckidstvyara]

GoFundMe acquires YouCaring as charitable crowdfunding continues to consolidate

GoFundMe acquires YouCaring as charitable crowdfunding continues to consolidate

GoFundMe, the startup focuses crowdfunding for charitable causes, has made another acquisition to scale up its platform: it has acquired YouCaring, a smaller rival, creating a combined community of 50 million donors in some 19 countries in the process. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but it comes amid a flurry of acquisitions in the space as smaller companies look to consolidate in the face of growing competition from the likes of Facebook, and, it seems, Amazon.

Other acquisitions among charitable crowdfunding startups have included GoFundMe buying CrowdRise (and relaunching it last month), and YouCaring acquiring Generosity.com from Indiegogo in January of this year.

GoFundMe says that current YouCaring campaigns will continue as is if they have been started on the latter site. Future campaigns will all be initiated on GoFundMe.

Crowdfunding has become one of the biggest levers for raising money over the internet. Using emotional storytelling campaigns that spread virally through social media (and more traditional media), charitable giving specifically has been given a huge boost. GoFundMe was already the world’s biggest platform for causes-based online giving, and this deal with extend its margin further.

It’s not completely clear why GoFundMe decided to gobble up YouCaring (or YouCaring chose to sell up), rather than both continuing to grow organically, but one reason could be because of changing business models in the charitable crowdfunding space.

Last November, GoFundMe announced that it would drop the 5 percent platform fee that it was charging for personal campaigns in the US (its biggest market) and opt for a tips-based model. Notably, this is the model that forms the basis of how YouCaring — which is profitable — works.

“We have never had a platform fee and never will,” Dan Saper, CEO of YouCaring, told me earlier this year. Over 70 percent of all its users tip the company something, he added. “It has been remarkably sustainable and predictable,” he said. “We treat people like adults and let them decide who to support and how much to give.”

YouCaring also has the distinction of having hosted and run the largest crowdfunding campaign of all time, on any platform, raising $37 million for JJ Watt’s Harvey Relief Fund.

It could be that GoFundMe decided to bring in YouCaring either to help it built out is business in the tips-based space, or to work more closely with high-profile fundraisers, or (more cynically) to take out its closest independent rival in order to have less competitive pressure around how it chooses to build out fees and tips in the future. (We’re asking the question and will update as we learn more.)

For now, the combination is being described by GoFundMe as a move to strengthen its lead in the market — putting truth to the adage of “strength in numbers.”

“GoFundMe and YouCaring share a common mission of making it easier than ever for people to get the support they need. With this acquisition, we strengthen our position as the place where more people can unite to make an impact far greater than they can on their own,” said Rob Solomon, CEO of GoFundMe, in a sttement. “We’re excited to welcome the YouCaring community to GoFundMe and empower a global community of more than 50 million changemakers to help make a difference in each other’s lives.”

GoFundMe has never revealed how much it has raised from investors, but its backers include Iconiq, Stripes Group, Accel, TCV, Greylock and Meritech. YouCaring also has never disclosed how much it has raised and has only ever disclosed one backer, Alpine Investors.

[pacamaracatuai-blog]

Our generosity.com crowdfunding campaign is drawing to a close at the end of March and I could not be more excited to announce we have started spending the cash on equipment for the new lab. So far we have procured two major pieces of equipment for the El Grupo de Mujeres coffee lab in Ecuador.

First is a Quest M3s sample roaster, purchased with small donations and aided by a generous contribution from Coffee Shrub (the US distributor of the Quest). Check out the link for more info. It’s a small single barrel electric roaster - perfect for a small lab! What I love about it is the amount of control it gives the user; with both air flow and temperature knobs marked with high precision it allows the roaster to know exactly what’s going on with each batch, no guesswork. Plus it’s small, easy to clean, and capable of doing multiple batches in a row like a professional roaster (home roasters usually need down time between batches).

Second, we also received a generous donation from Baratza, a home grinder. Baratza makes some of the most precise home grinders on the market which makes it workable in our small but serious new lab. Without an even grind, cupping is at best difficult and at worst pointless, so this machine is a critical part of the work we will do!

I can’t recommend Coffee Shrub and Baratza enough. And we also received a cupping kit donated from Espresso Parts last year, with glassware and spoons and even spittoons! It’s been so encouraging to get support for this project from industry players I’ve respected for years. And of course a huge thank you to my friends and family and all the supporters of the crowdfunding effort, including Café Ñucallacta in Cuenca, Ecuador. I can’t wait to show you all some photos and videos of our new equipment at work!

[donnaarcherdoa]

YouCaring acquires Generosity.com as Indiegogo pulls out of personal causes fundraising

 Some consolidation is underway in the world of crowdfunding and online fundraising: YouCaring — which competes with GoFundMe and others in the area of sourcing fundraising for compassionate and charitable causes — is buying Generosity.com from crowdfunding giant Indiegogo (which originally launched as Indiegogo Life). The latter is using the divestment to further hone its focus… Read More from TEchy https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/25/youcaring-acquires-generosity-com-as-indiegogo-pulls-out-of-personal-causes-fundraising/?ncid=rss

[123ailsabrown]

YouCaring acquires Generosity.com as Indiegogo pulls out of personal causes fundraising http://ift.tt/2rChKZn