Tag Archives: charity
Building a School in India, and the Indiegogo platform
Looking for a hosted solution to raising funds? I just came across http://www.indiegogo.com/. I am going to keep writing on how Magento can build a web site for raising funds, but you should definitely consider whether you can just leverage an existing platform. How did I come across this particular platform? From Dean Nelson (VP @ […]
Charity Site Design Considerations
In this post I describe aspects I like and dislike about different charity / not-for-profit web sites. In follow up posts I will describe how Magento can be used to support such functionality. Apart from my normal disclaimer about working for eBay and Magento and PayPal are a part of eBay, I wanted to add […]
Technologies for Nonprofits
I am going to write up a few posts on ways in which Magento (an open source web store written in PHP) can be used as a site to support a not-for-profit site – such as a school in a developing country. I will base these posts on the free Magento Community Edition. This series […]
Support a Charity with your Magento Store
So you have a Magento web store that you use to sell goods, but you would like to also support a charity or other not-for-profit? Why not allow you customers to donate to the cause from your web store? When selecting a cause or causes to support, think about whether the demographics for your store […]
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