Donation Badges

Adding a donation badge to your blog is a great way to directly raise money for your cause. While some people may make online purchases to help your cause, others may simple want to donate money. Donation badges track the number of donations and total money raised. In addition, these badges can be easily shared electronically through websites, Facebook, MySpace and email.

If your designated cause is a non-profit, then consider creating a Network for Good badge.(Network for Good is a non-profit that has helped raise over $100 million). See an example below:

If you are raising money for a student organization, charity race or other cause that is not a official non-profit (or not listed in Network for Good), you may want to create a ChipIn.com badge. ChipIn.com offers a neat thermometer style badge that is great if you have a specific dollar amount in mind. In order to be paid, you need to have a PayPal account (or use an email address and later register that address for PayPal) to receive the funds and then send them to your cause. See below for an example of ChipIn.com: