1Dollar1Home Crowdfunding Platform Launches to Support Individuals and Families in Crisis
Crowdfunding platform gives Story creators the tools to raise funds for friends and families in crisis; donors can give as little as a Dollar
Arlington, VA, October 22, 2014 (Newswire.com) - 1Dollar1Home.com, a micro-donations and do-good crowdfunding community for only social causes, especially cases of personal and family crisis has officially launched. The social change donation platform aims to change the way the world views philanthropy and giving, one dollar, one donation and one Story at a time. 1Dollar1Home is taking a new approach to online donations. By combining generosity and collaboration, the founders of 1Dollar1Home seek to empower people to create positive change in Stories in their communities by making really small donations. 1Dollar1Home’s mission is to simply connect generous strangers to support and raise funds for friends and families in dire need of financial help for medical expenses, personal and family crisis via compelling, engaging online fundraising campaigns. The only requirement for is a $1 minimum donation from donors and supporters (friends and family) of Stories and campaigns shared on the platform.
“Our platform is for the friend or home in need of $100 to $1000 to prevent crisis and supplement their bills or rent within the shortest possible time. 1Dollar1Home will be a good fit for people in need of a few hundred dollars to resolve crisis. We embrace the untold Stories and are happy to fund it even if it means only $1 dollar donations from strangers. All we ask on our platform is a $1 contribution from donors and supporters (friends, family and awesome strangers).”
"Our platform is for the friend or home in need of $100 to $1000 to prevent crisis and supplement their bills or rent within the shortest possible time. 1Dollar1Home will be a good fit for people in need of a few hundred dollars to resolve crisis. We embrace the untold Stories and are happy to fund it even if it means only $1 dollar donations from strangers. All we ask on our platform is a $1 contribution from donors and supporters (friends, family and awesome strangers)."
From creating and sharing a Story to supporting a Story, the 1Dollar1Home team has focused on simplicity. The 1Dollar1Home team has designed a very simple and engaging platform that supports Stories and campaigns with large or small fundraising goals. Individuals, groups, social causes and non-profits can tell their Stories to raise funds for medical expenses, personal and family crisis and loved ones in need. Setting up an account and sharing a Story on the platform takes no more than five minutes; users sign in with either an email address or Facebook or Google+ login, provide their PayPal or disbursement information and share their Story.
1Dollar1Home securely stores the information and users. The platform is free for Story creators and donors. 1Dollar1Home takes an "average or lower than average” fee of 2% on every transaction to run our operations. One donor perk of supporting 1Dollar1Home Story is the platform doesn't ask for a snail mail address, so users aren't inundated with follow-up mailings (and the associated wasted resources).
1Dollar1Home’s creation was inspired by idea that generous strangers can collaborate to use as little as one dollar to make a difference in a person’s life or home and change their Story. “Even a really small donation can be impactful for an individual or a family, if it comes from a user that has a network of friends in their social circle who can chip in a small amount. We're changing how individuals view philanthropy.”
To learn more about the 1Dollar1Home, contact Doug Boateng at doug (at) 1dollar1home (dot)com or 202-270-9962
About 1Dollar1Home: 1Dollar1Home is a micro-donations crowdfunding platform that makes it easy for individuals, groups, social causes and non-profits to fundraise online for friends, families and homes in crisis, one dollar at a time. The 1Dollar1Home community embraces Stories of individuals and families in crisis and thrives on funding these Stories to make a difference.