Needbox.com

Sell your stuff or services and automatically donate an optional percentage of the income to a charity chosen by you (minimum 5 %).Your stuff now turns into life supporting water, medicine, food and education or even saving acres of the rainforest. Needbox gives people a new incentive to NOT only sell their stuff for their own good but rather to help others that are in great need simultaneously. With Needbox people don’t need to dig down deep in their pockets to give, now they can give without seeing or touching the funds that is generated. Needbox is social arena where users can follow each other, like, comment and share. All users have their own profile page where they can promote all their offers, like a personal online store.Each charity foundation has a profile page similar to the users profile page. All offers to a specific foundation is shown both on the users online store and at the foundations online store. Foundations can even place their own offers on their page.
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Consumo/Producción colaborativa
Cómo se diferencia tu producto o servicio de lo existente en el mercado?
As far as we know, there are no direct competitors that are 100% focused on charity. Some other sites like E-bay, you can donate money, but its not something you have to do. We also have alot of social features that are extremely important to create a charity community. Our charity partnes and users get their own online store.
Describe el impacto social que genera tu solución
The combination of donation and social features changes the way we perceive the common ways to give. Now we create a new incentive for people to actually clean out things not needed and sell it in order to donate and recycle. There are plenty of stuff we don’t need that easily can be donated through sales. Now people can advertise it, share it, sell it and donate proudly in public. There are always people who are in need of something you don’t need, so why not recycle it and be both environmental and giving! Needbox can involve anyone with internet access and potentially create å global community of charitable people. Our vision is to integrate a year-round continuous fund raising service into people’s daily routines, so that there always will be resources to help where the need is the greatest. With Needbox ,peoples stuff or services can become a school in Africa, a meal for the homeless, supporting organ donation or amnesty for those in need, helping neglected children, medicine, water, even saving acres of rainforest and the animals living there.
Descripción breve de la sustentabilidad económica de tu proyecto
Needbox gets 15% of all the donations, 85% goes to the charity organizations. Needbox is a tool for the organizations, and we are developing better solutions that they can use towards their "fans"
¿Cómo es la escala de tu proyecto?¿Zonal, regional, nacional o globlal? ¿Por qué?
Needbox is a social service, and fits everyone and any business, regardless of location. All registered charities and social causes can be a donation recipient on Needbox. Our goal is to raise money for our charity partners in all the countries they collect money. In other words, this is a global innovation. To make the biggest social impact, the world is our market.
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¿Tu emprendimiento se encuentra constituído en algún país?¿Cuál?
Norway
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Hi Tomas, The biggest challenge at the moment is funding! The whole needbox team is working pro bono, and that can not go on forever. We dont have the funds to do what we like regarding development ,market and bringing in new resources. If we had investors we could take much more action, now we have to make deals that takes time.
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What are the main uncertainties associated with your startup?
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Gracias:)! Lets make this happen in Colombia!
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Excelente concepto. Pienso que en Colombia hacen faltan redes sociales, tiendas online o comunidades de caridad como usted las llama, que promulgen la disminución del desperdicio y el reciclaje; y que además le den un uso más beneficioso al internet. Felicitaciones.
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Hi congrats. How do you plan to grow your customer base? Very interesting concept.
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Hi Camilo, I can give you some hints:) In Norway the population is about 5 mill, and our charity partners will promote us towards their supporters through facebook/social media, newsletters, media and their homepage. In Norway we will reach out to about 1 mill+ people,which is about 20% of the population. Social media is really important because needbox is a social marketplace, and media in general gives us alot of attention. Different campaigns also gives good results. ++++
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How is this organized in Colombia?
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Dear Felipe, Thank you for a really important question! It is most important that our users know where the donations goes. In Norway we only accept ngos that are registered at The Norwegian Control Committee For Fundraising. http://www.innsamlingskontrollen.no/en/about-us/ All ngos who are approved by the committee has delievered completely transparant financials, and the donations can be tracked into GREAT charity projects. We have found similar committes in many countries.How is this in CO
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Dear Christian, Loved the concept! Would you tell us what is the screening process you do with the ngos you can donate to? And also, is there a follow up procees to check how the donations are spent? All the best!
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