Microdonations service Pennies has now generated £500,000 for UK charities. The number of microdonations it has handled has doubled in the past six months to two million.
PlayMob, the social gaming company that enables charities to fundraise through in-game micropayments, has secured £500,000 in investment from NESTA and venture capital fund manager Midven plus a numbe
Customers at Domino's Pizza have raised £230,000 through one million microdonations in the 14 months since the spare change scheme from Pennies began in stores in November 2010.
Customers at high street toy shop The Entertainer have raised over £100,000 for charity in just six months by donating their electronic spare change pennies.
The Pennies Foundation's micro-donation service Pennies has raised over £57,000 from over 250,000 consumer donations in the four months since it went live.
This week saw the launch of the #1paday (1p-a-day) campaign by Cerebra UK. They are encouraging supporters to get involved by giving just 1p a day to Cerebra through microdonation website ploink!
San Francisco-based SwipeGood has come up with an attractive combination of rounding up purchases on credit cards, donating the difference to charity, and doing so on an ongoing, monthly basis.
Warwickshire County Council's staff and pensioners have raised over £100,000 in four years by topping up their monthly payslip by no more than 99p a month.
Domino's Pizza is the first retailer to offer its customers the option to top up their credit/debit card payment with a donation to charities of a few pennies using Pennies, "the electronic charity bo
