New Donation Site Helps U.K. Charities

August 8, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

A new giving site allows donors in the United Kingdom to make online contributions to any charity in the country — regardless of whether those groups have an Internet presence of their own.

GiveNow.org is a joint project of the Charities Aid Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Kent, England, that promotes philanthropy in the United Kingdom and abroad; the AOL Time Warner Foundation, in New York; and AOL UK, in London.

Visitors to the site can make online donations to more than 190,000 charities in the United Kingdom. GiveNow offers donors the option of making one-time contributions or regular gifts that are charged to the donor’s credit card at set intervals, such as once a month or once a quarter.

GiveNow will cover the administrative costs of the first £2-million (or $3.2-million) donated through the site.

To get there: Go to http://www.givenow.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.