HOW TO: Add a Donate Now Button to Your Facebook Page, Blog, Website

Published September 01, 2009 @ 06:51AM PT

Nonprofits that sign up for a Nonprofit Admin Account can get access to a "Donate Now" button in 24 hours or less. The button comes in eight different colors and can easily be embedded onto your Facebook Page, Blog, or website by simply copying and pasting a small piece of html code. Some answers to FAQs:

1. There is no set-up fee for the button.
2. All donations made to nonprofits on Change.org are processed by Network for Good. They take out 4.75% of your donation to cover bank and credit card processing fees, and to be able to hire a staff that can mail your organization a check and donor report each month. It's worth noting that Network for Good is also a nonprofit organization.
3. Your check is mailed to the address in your organization's GuideStar entry, so make sure your contact and organizational information is current in GuideStar.
4. Your nonprofit must be a 501c3 or 501c4 and have an entry in GuideStar to be able to use Change.org, or if you are a fiscally sponsored project, then your fiscal sponsor must be in GuideStar. You can get into GuideStar by simply faxing them your IRS Letter of Determination [More Information].

Once you have been approved for a Change.org Nonprofit Admin Account, then simply login > Go to the Admin Dashboard > Click "Get a Donate Now Button > Copy the code of the button with the color of your choice. Then you can embed the button on your website, blog, Facebook Page, MySpace profile, etc.

As an example, the Center for Democracy in the Americas recently dropped their PayPal button and replaced it with a Change.org "Donate Now" button on their website, and using Static FMBL App they were also able to add the "Donate Now" button on their Facebook Page.

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Heather is the Nonprofit Community Manager for Change.org. She also created and maintains the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace, Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page, Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel, and the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile. Fueled by a strong passion for the Internet, Heather spends her days helping nonprofit organizations utilize the Internet as a tool for social change.