Hi there, Austin from Manifund here! I can’t speak for the EA Philippines team, but some reasons we think our platform is a good way for raising donations:
For users like you, registering should be pretty fast, <2min (you can sign up with any email or Google account). And you can easily add money via credit card; we also support bank transfers, DAF, and crypto for larger donation sizes.
As we’re set up as a 501c3, US-based donors can get a tax deduction for donating to projects that we host.
On Manifund, we have a network of donors who already have their budgets loaded on our site, and sometimes regrantors as well—last year, our regrantors had $2m to recommend to projects.
One comparable project to EA Philippines might be AI Safety Camp, who launched with an EA Forum post like this one, and went on to raise $56k on Manifund!
We’ve established a track record of reliable payouts & operational support; we’ve paid out ~$3m to 128 projects over the last year or so.
I’d love to hear if you have any troubles using the Manifund platform; or if you have experiences with other platforms that you think serve this function better, as we’re always trying to improve.
Thanks for this response, Austin. For me, three things that made me hesitant to use Manifund: (1) requires an account (2) when linking via a google account, the supabase address looks scammy as it is just 15 random characters. (3) I have to pay money into an account before pledging. Given not all projects may end up taking place, this makes me nervous about wasting money (i.e. if the project does not take place). Compare this to, e.g., Kickstarter, where you only need to pay if the project takes place, yet you can pledge without loading money into Kickstarter.
I do think of Manifund as a good fundraiser option; I do think that it is good to have multiple options listed for the reasons explained above.
(2) hm, we could pay $10/mo for the professional tier to change the supabase URL address, the Scrooge in me didn’t think it was worth it but perhaps...
(3) interesting—I don’t think we’ve considered an option to let people pledge without funds added yet; will see if that makes sense.
Hi there, Austin from Manifund here! I can’t speak for the EA Philippines team, but some reasons we think our platform is a good way for raising donations:
For users like you, registering should be pretty fast, <2min (you can sign up with any email or Google account). And you can easily add money via credit card; we also support bank transfers, DAF, and crypto for larger donation sizes.
As we’re set up as a 501c3, US-based donors can get a tax deduction for donating to projects that we host.
On Manifund, we have a network of donors who already have their budgets loaded on our site, and sometimes regrantors as well—last year, our regrantors had $2m to recommend to projects.
One comparable project to EA Philippines might be AI Safety Camp, who launched with an EA Forum post like this one, and went on to raise $56k on Manifund!
We’ve established a track record of reliable payouts & operational support; we’ve paid out ~$3m to 128 projects over the last year or so.
I’d love to hear if you have any troubles using the Manifund platform; or if you have experiences with other platforms that you think serve this function better, as we’re always trying to improve.
Thanks for this response, Austin. For me, three things that made me hesitant to use Manifund:
(1) requires an account
(2) when linking via a google account, the supabase address looks scammy as it is just 15 random characters.
(3) I have to pay money into an account before pledging. Given not all projects may end up taking place, this makes me nervous about wasting money (i.e. if the project does not take place). Compare this to, e.g., Kickstarter, where you only need to pay if the project takes place, yet you can pledge without loading money into Kickstarter.
I do think of Manifund as a good fundraiser option; I do think that it is good to have multiple options listed for the reasons explained above.
Thanks for the feedback!
(2) hm, we could pay $10/mo for the professional tier to change the supabase URL address, the Scrooge in me didn’t think it was worth it but perhaps...
(3) interesting—I don’t think we’ve considered an option to let people pledge without funds added yet; will see if that makes sense.