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Tool: ChipIn Makes International Fundraising Easy

Tool Description: ChipIn allows you to create an embeddable fundraising widget for your blog (see below) that allows to you to receive donations internationally through your PayPal account.

Activist Application: Although you can make a lot of social change without money, sometimes its useful. ChipIn makes online fundraising accessible to grassroots organizations.

Ease of Use: Really easy. Go to the ChipIn site, www.chipin.com, and enter some information about your fundraising campaign: 1) campaign name, 2) fundraising goal, 3) fundraising campaign end-date, 4) your Paypal account. Then ChipIn will create an animated widget which you can embed in your blog. When a donor clicks the “ChipIn!” button on the widget they are taken to PayPal, where they make the donation.