<p>I’m considering raising money for a non-profit organization to help with donating technology in developing countries. I was thinking about donating money to the OLPC folks.</p>
<p>I’m hoping to raise some $50,000 (possible? how about a million?). I was thinking about setting up a website and contacting various tech sites to see if they’d mention it on thier site or just donate. Also, I’d put those small donation bins in stores, ask for donations at school, and have some of the profits from events from the computer club (which I founded…should be up next year) would go to the fund. </p>
<p>I’m not really sure where I would start though. Are there any legal issues involved? Would I just contact stores to see if they’d allow me to place bins and such? Is it possible to ask major corporations for donations (and actually get some donations)? </p>
<p>I’m not limiting myself to just the OLPC foundation. I’d just really like to help improve tech in 3rd world countries (or countries like India, China, Japan, etc)</p>
<p>thanks, any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>Do you have a timetable for this? I’m assuming you’ll do credit card donations on the website. If so, do you know how this works?</p>
<p>It’s very possible to get large corporations involved and put bins in other company’s stores. There are legal issues involved in doing this, I’m sure, if you are planning to get the money and then donate it to the OLPC people. If you are asking for donations to be given directly to OLPC, then there really aren’t any issues I can think of that you would deal with. At the same time, you wouldn’t really be the one who raised it. By this, I mean that you would basically be kind of like a volunteer or a spokesman for the OLPC - asking other to donate to an organization.</p>
<p>There’s a LOT that goes into something like this. I think the best source for you to get this information is from actual non-profits that raise money via their website. Contact them. Contact the organization you want to raise it for. </p>
<p>It’s a great idea, and good luck with it! :] It’d be a nice thing to do.</p>
<p>Whoa!!!..$50,000 possibly $1 million? I’d keep the donations, but that’s just me. Good luck though; it sounds like a good idea.</p>
<p>I was hoping to get something ready for the start of the next school year. </p>
<p>I see that having the money go through me and then to OLPC would be lots of work (and thus, I won’t do the internet). I’m going to send an email to the OLPC people and see what they have to say. I may just end up asking students for donations and send it to OLPC (and donate via computer club profits). </p>
<p>In this news article, it says she raised $14k when the actual money came from others: <a href=“Teen Raises $14,000 for Darfur Relief - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Sudan/story?id=1907006</a> </p>
<p>“Koretsky began her money-raising efforts by educating her synagogue’s congregation. She wrote and distributed letters about the Darfur situation, and received donations from every congregrant. Then she held a raffle, sold ‘Save Darfur’ bracelets and put Sudan donation cans in local stores.”</p>
<p>If I was to do the same, I would be the one “raising”, correct?</p>