According to the most recent reports, non-profits are now raising 10% of their funds online - that’s 13-14% more than they did a couple years ago.  With no reason to believe otherwise, the trend will likely follow other online businesses and only increase.

Many non-profits still raise money traditonally, in person or through third-party donation options, but if you aren’t raising funds online, you’re missing out on a big opportunity.  Below are a few things you may want to consider.

Note: If you are a non-profit, and you are not taking donations on your own site, then you can use E-junkie to do so, and we even provide our service at a discounted rate, often free for non-profits, just e-mail us.

Business and philanthropy are two entities that do not gel together naturally. As goes the common notion, businesspersons engage in charitable works not out of Samaritan feeling always but to create "investments" that save them from the tax scanner or else to build a public persona for goodwill.

Well whatever may be the actual intent, it is concrete action that matters at the end of the day. And let's agree that it is these very businesspersons and entrepreneurs who champion developmental projects at every level of society by extending logistical and financial help.

In a similar view, I recently came across this interesting community of businessman who are doing great work in ushering a community based livelihoods at an international scale.