Micro-donations

The term micro- donation (also: small donation, micro- donation) designated donations small amounts of money.

Traditionally, these include, for example, a contribution to the collection bag or the dispensing of small change money to charities working in this container provided, for example, to store cash. Also plays the collecting donations of smaller amounts using value-added services, SMS and micropayment or social payment payment systems play an increasing role.

Both the charity and in party donations area have small donations in the modern one important are other meanings: It managed as Barack Obama during the campaign for the presidential election in the United States in 2008 alone in June 2008 raise 52 million dollars on -line services; $ 31 million of which were small donations of $ 200 or less.

In Germany for example, the campaign was rounded up to Germany since March 1, 2012 more than 2.1 million euros of micro donations for charitable projects redeem (as of March 6, 2014).