Person-to-Person fundraising update

On April 15th, I blogged about Person-to-Person fundraising in reply to a question posed by Peter Deitz of the About Micro Philanthropy blog.

He asked the question, "Is Person-to-Person Fundraising Dead, or Just Getting Started?" and invited people to send in their opinions for him to publish at the end of the month.

If you pop over to his blog now, you'll see he's posted a collection of all the responses.

As well as my answer (yay!), there are some really interesting points made by a wide variety of people.

Go on, take a read, see what people are saying. And feel free to put up your *thoughts* here, or there, or on your own blog. Or, hell, just tell the person sitting next to you. This is person-to-person after all!

I had the pleasure of meeting Peter the other day (I've been visiting our Firstgiving counterparts in Boston to find out more about the US nonprofit scene) and I was really impressed with the vision for his Social Actions project, described in his own words:

Social Actions helps individuals and organizations use social media to plan, implement, and support peer-to-peer social change campaigns.

And that's not really too dissimilar from the original goal of why Anne-Marie and Zarine set up Justgiving - to enable people to join together and raise more money than they thought possible, quickly, easily and efficiently, for the causes they care about.