Facebook Introduces 'Personal Fundraiser' Feature

Facebook is removing a step from your crowdfunding efforts. At present, instead of creating a entrada on a site such as GoFundMe and posting the link on Facebook, y'all can create your formal plea right on the social network.

The new Facebook feature, chosen "Personal Fundraisers," is basically a replica of GoFundMe; it lets you lot set up a campaign to (hopefully) enhance coin for yourself or someone else in demand, like a friend, relative, or pet. Facebook plans to roll out this characteristic for people aged 18 or over in beta over the next few weeks.

To start, the feature will back up six categories for financial needs, letting you raise money to comprehend costs related to:

Educational activity: including tuition, books, and classroom supplies
Medical problems: includingprocedures, treatments, or injuries
Pet medical: including veterinary procedures, treatments, or injuries
Crisis relief: including "public crises" or natural disasters
Personal emergencies: like a house fire, theft, or car accident
Funeral and Loss: including burial expenses, or living costs after losing a loved 1.

"Personal fundraisers allow people to reach friends where they already are to quickly build momentum for their cause," Facebook's Vice President of Social Good Naomi Gleit wrote in a weblog post. "Friends tin donate in a few taps with secure payments, without leaving Facebook. Since you tin run across real profiles on Facebook, donors will see how they are connected to the person who created the fundraiser, the person benefiting and others who are supporting the fundraiser."

Campaigns will go through a 24-hour fundraiser review process. Facebook said information technology hopes to add more fundraising categories in the future and automate more of the review process.

Facebook is slightly undercutting GoFundMe's fee of 7.9 percentage plus $0.30 per donation.

On Facebook, "personal fundraisers will have a half dozen.9 percent + $.30 fee, that will go to payment processing fees, fundraiser vetting, security and fraud protection," Gleit wrote. "Facebook'due south goal is to create a platform for good that'southward sustainable over the long-term, and not to make a profit from our charitable giving tools."

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Meanwhile, Facebook also this week announced that verified Pages can at present add donate buttons to their live broadcasts. People watching the live broadcast will be able to donate as they watch, or after the broadcast has ended.

"This gives public figures, brands, businesses and organizations new ways to fundraise on Facebook for the nonprofits they support," Gleit wrote.

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