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$20 CHALLENGE
Free online fundraising tool to help with the $20 Challenge
I used a free online widget by Paypal Labs to facilitate secure online collections for my $20 challenge on my blog which makes fundraising easy.
- it connects up to paypal which allows people to pay by paypal or credit card securely online
- donors get recognized immediately in the scrolling banner
- visitors can take a copy of the widget and put it on their own site as well, to generate even more revenue
- contributing sites get recognition as well
INSTRUCTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING PAYPAL WIDGET ON YOUR WEBSITE
- Go to https://giving.paypallabs.com/authenticate/create_campaign
- Sign in with your PayPal account
- Enter all the details (name, choose colours, select image, etc.)
- Paste the code it gives you into your site
You can make changes to the widget any time by going here…
https://giving.paypallabs.com and PayPal Labs has published answers to frequently asked questions here.
Why not take a moment and share this tip with your favourite non-profit or charitable organization too?
Sue 
$20 Challenge Sponsor
Investors Group has come on board to sponsor our highly successful $20 Challenge! We can’t wait to hear the amazing stories that are generated by this year’s Investors Group $20 Challenge.
Brightening Up Someone’s Christmas Morning
Congratulations on such a spectacular conference and the $20 challenge. It is such a glorious feeling to be able to pay it forward. With my $20, I have purchased one of the gift bags from the Community Gift Giving Program. This program provides every resident of the Port Perry Nursing Home with a present on Christmas morning. This has been a program that I have been a part of for a few years and is very dear to my heart. Thank you.
Kristyn Chambers
Every Child Deserves a Birthday Party
I combined the $20 I recieved with donations from others totally $130. Open Arms will be giving 12 year old Andrew who is from a single parent family, a birthday party. He has never had the opportunity to have a party where he could invite friends, as most kids living in poverty. We will be providing a party at NEBs fun world. It is important to know that 60% of the children who live in poverty in Oshawa are from single parent homes. We hope to provide more birthday parties for kids like Andrew. Andrew has a dad who left him and fled out of province and a mom who works two and sometimes 3 jobs to survive. She is the working poor. She had gone off of subsidy for housing because of a promotion to full time work but a cut back placed her work status to part time. She can no longer afford to live in her small rental townhouse . Life is difficult for even hard working people like this mother.
Michelle Bountrogiannis
