Facebook India Fundraiser – Please enable UPI as a Donation channel




          In the first week of 2017, Facebook launched its fundraising module. The module is targeted towards Facebook users in need of funds for personal needs like tuition, medical care, pet care, or other personal expenses.


          This module is the offshoot of Facebook charitable tools. Facebook users at the same time also can also solicit funds for crisis relief such as public crises or natural disasters, personal emergencies such as a house fire, theft or car accident etc.

          Facebook charitable tools also assist Non-Profit Organisations to raise funds for further deployment. The major difference between Personal Fund raising and Non-Profit Organization funding is that under ‘Non-Profit Organisation fund raising’, the donations always go to an eligible organization.

          All charities or non-profit organizations are not eligible to avail Facebook charity tools.

          The first criteria is that the non-profit organization should be in a country where Facebook non-profit fundraisers are available. As on date, Facebook non-profit fundraisers are available in 43 countries across the world.

          Once the first obstacle, the non-profit organization has to follow the Facebook non-profit fundraising rules for the specific country.

          Facebook webpage broadly categorizes the 43 countries into 3 groups:

Group 01) Requirements for non-profit organizations based in United States

Group 02) Requirements for non-profit organizations based in India

Group 03) Requirements for non-profit organizations based in other countries.

Please note India is honored with a separate sub-section and is not grouped with ‘other countries.

To qualify for Facebook's fundraising tools, charities in India must be registered with GiveIndia's GiveAssured program. Also, the charities need to provide a set of documents as mentioned in the respective Facebook webpage.

Please click here to access the Facebook Fundraiser page.

The Facebook Fundraisers for India was formally launched today i.e 20/04/2020.
I have created a test fundraising page, to see the various payment options.


UPI is not a payment option, VERY DISAPPOINTED. Did not expect this, was looking forward to UPI as a Payment Option.

Disclaimer: These are my personal view only, the bottom line is, Safe ePayments


           

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