Pledgie needs at least 500.00 in two days!

Mark from Pledgie was planning on participating in the 2008 Philanthropy Midwest Conference as a attendee, but we learned on Friday that there is one last exhibitor’s booth available!

What we need

We are hoping to raise at least $500.00 to purchase the last remaining exhibitor’s booth. We will use this booth to demo Pledgie and interview some of the more than 500 nonprofit professionals, board members, community volunteers and foundation staff who will be in attendance. We have two goals for the conference:

1. Demo Pledgie to everyone in attendance
2. Conduct detailed interviews with these veterans of fund-raising, to learn how we might enhance Pledgie’s features for our users to raise even more money for their causes.

Why we need your support

Pledgie is a free service, and as such we make no money on the thousands of campaigns that use our service. Garry and Mark are thrilled with the positive difference that Pledgie has made in people’s lives, and are proud to be members of the growing Pledgie community. In the two years that we’ve been running this site, we’ve helped members raise money for orphanages, open source software, legal defense funds, and even espresso machines.

We know that these successes are just the beginning though. Pledgie is growing faster than we anticipated, and in the coming months we want to improve the Pledgie platform to meet the needs of these new members and institutions. We feel that being an exhibitor at the conference will give us the research and exposure that we need to plan our next features for you all.

Show your support

Please consider donating any amount that you feel you can. This will help send us on our way. Any money we raise over the 500.00 amount will be used to buy handout materials for the conference (cards, literature, T-shirts?!)

Don’t worry if you cannot donate right now; you can also help by embedding a badge on a blog, website, Facebook page etc.

Thanks to everyone in the Pledgie community who will make this possible!

Mark & Garry