Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan

Technology has boomed at its best in last few years and now, there is no part of the world where this technological advancement had not made their way.  Also, something to accept as a must is that it has had an impact on every sector of daily life. The corporate life is incomplete without these technological facilities. It has now eliminated all the boundaries and made the entire world as a single unit to live share and communicate. Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan

With a precise impact on every sector of life, technology has also changed the way of working of the social sector. With old norms and values now people are working with new ideas and procedures to reach out to other people or spread their word.

Being part of the social well-being community, one is much familiar with the value of technology. It has helped to get connected with more and more people. Crowd funding or fundraising is the most appreciated way to ask for help or join hands and helps people in need. The phenomenon is known and appreciated by every society of the world.  Technology is aiding the social welfare organizations in a number of ways to join hands and ask for more and more help.

Individual Crowdfunding Campaign:

At the time where the social media is helping the people to link up with each other, it is also providing a platform to speak with more and more people in terms of asking for help. If searched, one can find a large number of activities carried by the people in a number of ways to deliver their call for help. This help can be for a helping, the eco system or any animal. The purpose of these activities is to provoke others to join hands and raise funds or awareness from and in a large number of people to make the life of any person better and this world a better place to live, respectively.

Crowdfunding Organizations:

Apart from the individual call for action, there are a large number of groups of people working on any social cause. These teams are based on professionals who are well aware to deal with the processing and matters in a better way to generate better results. For this reason, there are a large number of organizations, registered with legal authorities and are offering a wide range of service with an aim to facilitate any human being to have better living or to save this world and make it a better place to live. These organizations are in millions and are working on a single or more than one cause. The help provided by these organizations are based on the donation that is gathered from all parts of the globe. This global network is only possible with the help of technology and is really helpful in making out better results.

List of Online CrowFunding Platforms in Pakistan:

1 – Transparent Hands
2 – Seedout
3 – Pink ribbon
4 – Care Foundation
5 –  Door of awareness
6 – TCF

1 – Transparent Hands Crowdfunding website

Transparent Hands is in First position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan. Transparent Hands Trust, healing thousands of sick and given them a healthy, happy and complete life once again, the trust is working on pay the medical bills of poor people of Pakistan who cannot afford any kind of medical surgeries.

Transparent Hands Charity Trust is a crowdfunding organization and the first online Crowdfunding platform in the health sector of Pakistan, which is striving to provide the best surgical treatment to thousands of underprivileged patients. Transparent Hands Charity Trust uses its web portal to connect billions of donors around the world to help in funding the surgeries of these patients.

It also ensures to provide transparent funding system to the donors. Donors are ensured that each penny they donate will be spent on the needy patient’s surgery and this is done through the hospital bills which are uploaded on Transparent Hand’s web portal. They can donate any amount they like and receive regular updates until the patient to whom they donated, receives complete medical relief.

Transparent Hands Charity Trust has a vision to expand its healthcare services all over Pakistan & then move towards education sector.

2 – Seedout

Seedout is in second position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan. Seedout is a registered non-profit organization that aims to maximize the impact of Islamic compliant microfinance through their crowd-funding platform.

At Seedout, you can fund directly to micro-entrepreneurs, helping us to alleviate poverty sustainably through creating jobs, raising entrepreneurs and creating economic stability. With their innovative micro-franchising model and robust micro-funding platform, you can be sure your donation, zakat or sadaqah will be delivered to the entrepreneurs of your choice, along with the training and guidance to get them off the ground. Make no mistake your donations DO make an Impact, because they don’t provide these entrepreneurs hard cash, they start the business for them.

The process is simple. Browse profiles of entrepreneurs. Fund them directly to their start-ups or growing business. Follow there progress. And sit back and watch your money change lives.

Why Micro-Finance through Seedout?

Charity and relief work don’t provide sustainable solutions to poverty. (give a man a fish)

Enterprise solutions to poverty provide sustainable solutions. (teach a man to fish)

At Seedout, Their Interest-Free Micro Finance provides small funds to poor entrepreneurs through their crowd-funding platform who are typically trying to start, sustain or expand a small or micro-business. In Pakistan alone 60% of the population is living below the poverty line (World Bank). Despite a highly entrepreneurial labor force, where 90% of businesses are micro-enterprises, it is estimated that less than 20% of Pakistanis are eligible to secure traditional forms of credit.

Their crowd-funding platform fixes the funding problem by leveraging the internet to help and support unprivileged individuals and communities to fulfill their dreams simultaneously alleviating poverty sustainably. The existing reality deprives the majority of Pakistanis the right to meet their most everyday needs, let alone the right to build sustainable and empowering households and communities. They believe this sort of poverty and economic inequality should be alleviated. They believe each donation made through Seedout pays both material and symbolic dividends, dividends that are central to promoting opportunity, stability, and entrepreneurship in a place that has seen very little of all three.

3 – Pink ribbon

How it started

Pink ribbon is in third position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan. In October 1997, American citizen Paul Davidson registered pink ribbon and launched a website directed to and available for all people in the world engaged with breast cancer. The website was dedicated to raising awareness and funding for breast cancer.

In 2008, the initiative was extended and expanded creating the non profit network Pink Ribbon Inc. in New York. The objectives were defined and the idea launched an international charity platform for breast cancer awareness and funding (awareness, advocacy, alliances, alignment and accreditation).

Throughout the years this initiative has grown into the international platform as they know it today, covering more than 30 countries over 5 continents.

Why donate to Pink Ribbon?

Working with Pink Ribbon Inc. (not for profit), as opposed to establishing a private charity, affords donors the ability to focus on one’s passion, leaving Pink Ribbon Inc. (not for profit) to handle the day-to-day administrative and legal complexities associated with managing an international grant. This approach relieves donors of the administrative burdens and allows donors to not lose sight of their philanthropic passions and interests.

4 – Care Foundation

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

Care Foundation is in fourth position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan. Their Founder, Seema Aziz, travelled to flood-affected areas in 1988 to help people reconstruct their homes. She noticed that children were roaming the streets freely during the day. She later found out that there was no school. These children had been deprived of a basic right. Being a silent observer wasn’t going to solve anything. It was time to take action.

EMPOWERING A NATION

In 1988, CARE opened its first school on Sheikhupura Road, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. On day one, over 250 children had lined up outside, barely clothed but eager to learn. One school turned into several more. Their children are no less capable than students attending private schools around the country. What’s more, they are topping their board exams and competing in Model UN Conferences.

UNESCO ranked Pakistan as one of the most illiterate countries in the world. Pakistan’s education crisis originates from problems in enrollment numbers, dropout rates, and academic performance. An education is every child’s birthright. Pakistan will continue to struggle with poverty, gender disparity, and terrorism if high quality education does not become a priority.

5 – Door of awareness

What they do

Door of awareness is in fifth position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan. The staff are always busy, doing one thing or another. Whether that is helping the children with learning or the office work. What goes on inside the schools…

Educate and Promote Education

• Regular Classes to enable students to cope up with regular pace thereby reducing the number of dropouts
• Stitching Classes to empower girls and women to earn their livelihood
• Basic IT courses for women and girls to enhance their skills

Basic Support

• DOA provides competent teachers, stitching and computer instructors in these centres
• They provide students with books, note-books, uniforms, stationery for educational centres
• Computers and related accessories in computer centres
• Sewing machines and accessories in stitching centres

Appropriate Support to Teachers and Schools

• They have training programs for teachers to update them with latest teaching techniques

Extra-Curricular Activities

• Sports are held for students

Co-Curricular Activities

• Writing competitions

6 – TCF Pakistan

Their journey through 22 years!

TCF Pakistan is in sixth position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan. The journey of a thousand schools began with a single idea and soon turned into a global movement.

• TCF adopts government schools across Pakistan in a bid to enhance enrolment and quality of education through its Government Schools Programme (GSP)
• TCF wins The Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF).
• TCF initiates the Alumni Development Programme (ADP) to assist TCF alumni in their preparation for and application to top-rated Universities in Pakistan.
• Mourning the loss of innocent lives in the Peshawar school attack, TCF pledges to build ‘141 Schools for Peace’ for the children of Pakistan.
• To guide students on academic and career path options, TCF rolls out its Career Counseling Programme.
• Taking the spotlight, TCF wins the Qatar Foundation’s International WISE Award.
• TCF joins the community of global leaders at the Clinton Global Initiative.
• TCF joins the nation in lending a helping hand to the Sindh flood affectees.
• TCF – Rahbar embarks on its journey to become their flagship youth mentoring programme.
• TCF – Summer Camp kicks off, giving young volunteers the opportunity to make a difference.
• The drive for education extends northwards with TCF opening its first school in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
• Keeping its promise to help realize the aspirations of its students, TCF starts awarding alumni scholarships.
• TCF gets recognised for its best management practices through the Management Association of Pakistan (MAP) Award.
• Bringing the light of literacy to adult learners, TCF initiates the Aagahi Programmme for community women.
• TCF launches its relief efforts in response to the deadliest earthquake in the history of Pakistan.
• Reaching for the heights, TCF opens its doors to the children of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• TCF’s first batch of matriculating ‘Agents of Positive Change’ go out into the world.
• Making inroads into the green fields, TCF opens its first 3 Primary Schools in Punjab.

Honorary Mention

Edhi Foundation:

Edhi Foundation is in seven position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan. The Edhi Foundation holds the pride of being the largest ambulance service in the world. Founded by Abdul Sattar Edhi the foundation is no doubt the biggest name of Pakistani NGO’s.  It offers a wide range of services to the needy, poor and homeless people. The offered services includes; food, shelter and health.

Edhi Foundation is the biggest name in Pakistan’s charity organization in Pakistan. It is one of the best social welfare service providers across the world running on non-commercial, non-political and non-communal basis.

It is serving round-the-clock without any discrimination of color, class, and creed and is enjoying exclusive credentials in the shape of awards and shields conferred upon Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi (late) and Mrs. Bilquis Edhi by governmental and non-governmental organizations on national and international level for rendering their exemplary services to humanity in multidimensional fields. Edhi has the largest ambulance fleet in the world.

Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital:

Shaukat Khanum is in eighth position in our Top 6 Online Crowdfunding Platforms in Pakistan.Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital is one of the largest charity organizations of Pakistan established by Imran Khan. Imran Khan, after touching the heights of popularity through his great career in cricket and now also in politics as the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Pakistan’s second largest political party till date, holds great concern for people suffering from this deadly disease. This historic hospital was the only healthcare provider for the cancer patients at the time of its establishment.

With its successful operation in Lahore and Peshawar, Shaukat Khanam Cancer Hospital employs the modern technology and advanced machinery for the detection and treatment of various types of cancer. The formation grips the services of qualified doctors serving the people who are unable to afford the cure of cancer. The hospital does not charge a single penny and turns the infected individuals towards better life from the death edge.