More on PhilanthoPig: Splash page & ink in the Register

Just over two weeks ago, Des Monies social banking startup SmartyPig unveiled PhilanthoPig, a product created to help nonprofits boost their fundraising efforts. Since that time, the PhilanthroPig website, philanthropig.com, went live with an informational splash page (above) and the company earned some ink in the Des Moines Register. “We are very excited about the…

Screenshot of philanthropig.com

Just over two weeks ago, Des Monies social banking startup SmartyPig unveiled PhilanthoPig, a product created to help nonprofits boost their fundraising efforts. Since that time, the PhilanthroPig website, philanthropig.com, went live with an informational splash page (above) and the company earned some ink in the Des Moines Register.

“We are very excited about the launch of PhilanthroPig both here in the US and abroad,” said SmartyPig co-founder and COO Michael Ferrari by email today. “We received a great deal of interest at Finovate in New York and we have received a number of inquiries from the recent article in the Des Moines Register. We are taking the banking infrastructure and social features of SmartyPig and wrapping into a powerful fundraising platform for organizations of all sizes. It will truly be a unique product that we believe is absent in the fundraising space today.”

(Ferrari announced PhilanthroPig on October 4th at Finovate Fall 2010. Photo by Finovate Conferences via Flickr.)

To learn more about PhilanthoPig, visit philanthropig.com, and see our article about their launch, “SmartyPig announces PhilanthroPig, a custom fundraising site.”

Here’s the Des Moines Register article about PhilanthroPig, published Sunday, October 17th:

Elbert: ‘Pig’ trio offers nonprofit fund tool

By David Elbert

PhilanthroPig is designed to help groups raise small-dollar donations cheaply.

The Des Moines group that created SmartyPig, the online site that brought social networking to banking, has a new venture designed to raise money for nonprofit organizations.

It’s called PhilanthroPig, and its first venture […]

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