JustGiving

Hack4Good Introduction

People around the world want

to give

Generosity to inspire change

On JustGiving, the #icebucketchallenge has led to •247 different charities worldwide receiving donations.•People donated from 50+ countries•> 750k donations made•Over 4m raised to date

Why we support Hack4Good• We know that inherently we humans

want to give

• We know that emergencies need funds (and quickly)

• We know that people want to inspire others by sharing their generosity

• We have a platform that supports these needs

Who Am I?• Jamie Parkins

• API Product Manager at JustGiving

• > 5 years at the company

• Overseen the development of our consumer API service

• Software Developers at London, Dublin & Melbourne

• 24 hour support available

• APIs documented at www.justgiving.com/developer

Who are JustGiving?• Video• JustGiving is the world’s fastest growing social platform

for giving. • Founded in 2001• 24 million users, across 164 countries• >100,000 new registrations a week• 1 million fundraising pages will be created in 2014• $3 billion raised for global causes since launch• >14 million sessions a month

JustGiving APIOur APIs replicate most desktop behaviours•Creating Fundraising pages•Creating new users•Getting donation history•Searching for charities•Getting fundraising activity•Driving donations

•Free to use, soft limits, no restrictions

Charities Need Funds• That’s why they tend to use JustGiving!• People want to give to causes close to

their heart or need. • People tend to fundraise in support• Or Give directly• Often when timely

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Philippines Typhoon Appeal app

• Outcome of 2 Hack4Good collaborators

• A donation journey that enabled people to share their £5 gift to Facebook and encouraged friends to donate

• Simple message, simple journey

• Tech utilized: JustGiving APIs, Facebook Apps, Heroku (cloud hosting)

• Built in 5 days, raised £30k

• 54% of people who donated shared to their Facebook friends

Idea suggestions• Emergency Relief

Fundraise towards a common goal. Set a target, create a page, use the SDI to generate giving. Emergency app for direct giving

• Unlocking benefitsReward giving by unlocking (use API to query status of a donation)

• CalculatorOffset your climate change footprint by donating to causes (calculator)

• Charity Data & InformationGet data on charities that specialise on climate change

API Keys• Free to set up• No API limits• Sign up at

http://pages.justgiving.com/developer

Libraries

• C# SDK• PHP SDK• Samples on GitHub

Sandbox

Test Cards for Donations

Support we will provide• On site in London, Dublin & Melbourne• 24 hour twitter support via @jghackers• Dedicated Hipchat room• Google Forum• Or last resort email us at apisupport@justgiving.com

Helping Hand?• Got an idea?

• Want to some pre hack advice?

• Tweet us @jghackers #hack4good