GoodWorld, which launched in early 2014 already has over 200 partner organizations accepting donations through their service. A native of New Zealand, founder and CEO Dale Nirvani Pfeifer came up with the idea after experiencing difficulty in giving a donation to a struggling educator in Afghanistan. She created the platform as a way to enable seamless donations on social media All that’s required to give a donation is a one-time registration on the GoodWorld website. Once that is done you can go to your chosen charity’s Facebook page and type #donate, plus the amount you wish to give, into the comment block. On Twitter, just tweet #donate and the amount to the charity’s Twitter handle. If you’re registered, the organization should then be able to immediately process your donation. It’s awesome to see philanthropy being automated. As with most things, the easier it becomes to give to charities, the more people will do it. It will be interesting to see how GoodWorld puts this funding to use.
