The new social startup GiveDo was built in one hectic weekend in 2009 by volunteers at StartUp Camp II in Sydney, AU. This pitch for a board of advisors was made to Australian venture capitalists. GiveDo enables any charity to earn revenue from search advertising. See http://www.givedo.com for more.
3. The problem "This is the worst fundraising environment I've ever worked in" Jeffrey Towers, chief development officer for the American Red Cross USA Today, Oct 27 th 2008
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5. Our solution Enable charities to get a share of the click though revenue from all their supporters web searches
6. How it works Fund raiser’s Adsense account Fund raisers go to GiveDo.com… … they create a custom search page… … and share it with their community… … the community uses it for all their web searching… … Google shares revenue earned on community clicks Custom Search … all searches served by the Google search engine, same great quality…
7. Covering the GiveDo costs Search results Ads to cover GiveDo’s costs Revenue from these ads goes to the charity