Bitcoin Partners with ChildFund to Save Children
Digital exchange platform BitPay has partnered with ChildFund, one of the largest charities in the world for children to allow bitcoin donations. BitPay recently announced in a blog post: "We have a commitment to helping nonprofits utilize bitcoin for good causes. Our free payment-processing and donation tools are empowering groups as diverse as ChildFund, Save the Children, American Red Cross, Greenpeace USA and Literacy Bridge to use bitcoin donations and create unique solutions to problems ranging from illiteracy to disease." BitPay account manager Elizabeth Ploshay also positively....
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Not every child can have the life they truly deserve; one with happiness and the basic needs to not just survive, but thrive. In today's world, more than 400 million children can barely grasp on to the survive portion of living as they sit in extreme poverty. That's the portion where ChildFund International wants to make a difference. "Since our beginnings, our approach has evolved into one of community development, focused on strengthening families and community structures that make up a child's environment. The individual sponsor-to-child relationship supports this work, with sponsor....
In July 2021, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children in Rwanda announced it partnered with the Cardano Foundation on a project that allows well-wishers to make donations in the form of cryptocurrencies. Save the Children Meets ADA At the time, it was revealed that Save the Children’s acceptance of ADA donations was not the first time the non-governmental organization (NGO) had accepted crypto. In fact, Save the Children says it has been accepting donations in cryptocurrency form since 2013. However, some have questioned the wisdom of accepting donations in a form....
Updated with comment from Ettore Rossetti, director of digital marketing and social media at Save the Children USA. Global charity Save the Children has announced it is now accepting bitcoin donations through a partnership with payment processor BitPay. The charity said it had started accepting bitcoin through its personalised BitPay donation page just in time for the winter holidays. "We have already seen the generosity of the bitcoin community, and working with BitPay allows us to keep 100% of the donations, helping us serve even more children," said Ettore Rossetti, director of digital....
Cardano has announced that Rwanda’s Save the Children foundation had become the latest charity organization to embrace cryptocurrencies. The partnership came to fruition when Cardano had successfully installed a payment gateway that allowed the NGO to receive donations using Cardano’s native currency ADA. The statement released on the Save the Children website explained that thousands […]
For the philanthropist inside you, there is great news! Prominent charities running across the globe have now started receiving donations in the digital currency Bitcoin. Among the leading charities that have started embracing Bitcoin as a mode of soliciting funding are Save the Children, Greenpeace and American Red Cross. Ettore Rossetti, Director, Social Media and Digital Marketing at Save the Children said, "There is a sense that this is growing in acceptance in the nonprofit sector." Save the Children became a beneficiary of Bitcoin donations in fall 2013 and has since raised nearly....