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Can charities monitise virals for fundraising?

We all know charities are finding it harder to raise funds in the current economic downturn and traditional methods aren't working. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chuggers-shunned-as-brito...

ActionAid has come up with a viral in an attempt to find a new way to raise funds and engage with a new audience. They have tried to create a virtualisation of the warm fuzzy feeling donating to charity should give. Donate £2 to ActionAid and get a personalised video thank you complete with cute kids, Barack Obama and your own town.  

I'm volunteering at ActionAid this week trying to raise awareness of the viral (part of ActionAid's PoverTee Day on June 26th) and get people's feedback.

This is ActionAid's first go at a fundraising viral. Do you think it works? Does it strike the right note? Can charities successfully tap into the digital space? Can you monitise a viral for a good cause? https://www.actionaid.org.uk/poverteeday/donate.php

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Charities relying on other means

As we know, time are making it harder for charities to raise funds in the current economic downturn and traditional methods aren't working. For me, economic downturn should never be an excuse to keep them from continuing to ask for money. They should work harder. 

The viral marketing technique, being an e-mail “pass along” program, makes it rather more difficult to collect donations from distant and uncaring benefactors. That's why a lot of organizations hope and rely on social networking and other means like holiday greeting cards campaign, to have e-mail recipients send what they receive to others. Whatever the results, we should just always hope for the best.

I agree that in the present

I agree that in the present condition that we had, it is very hard t conduct a fund raising, knowing that they too are suffering from financial trouble, if some big companies collapsed how much more those ordinary individual. In today's economy, there is a severe recession and financial shortfall even the credit card companies are less willing to lend you money at ridiculous rates. The Federal Reserve has pumped billions into finance companies to reverse the trend, but it hasn't worked as well as intended, so naturally people turn to short term loans   for debt relief.

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