Tag: Kickstarter

The future of fundraising: a lesson from Kickstarter

October 27, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

A co-worker asked me to explain the secret behind the success of Kickstarter using only two words. I came up with“ideational giving,” which I immediately began processing through the lens of missions and the global Church giving patterns. The missionary with a vision I recently read about the Yoars family that felt called to leave at the […]

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Kindrid: generosity via text

October 24, 2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

As Millennials and successive generations grow up using technology, it comes as no surprise that they are more comfortable with and actually prefer online giving. Not only do they want giving websites and platforms to look sleek and up-to-date, more importantly they want them to be quick and easy to use. Barna Group studied how technology is […]

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