OUR KIDS calls for support

Bid to raise $5000 to purchase paediatric equipment

This year Community Engine launched a pilot for their social commerce website in the Northern Rivers. The pilot has been successful and now the company is ready to expand its reach.

To say thank you to the Northern Rivers for hosting the pilot program and to help launch the community building tool nationally, Community Engine is giving away $100,000.00.

“Any not-for-profit organisation in the Northern Rivers can access this money” said Dean Power, who heads up Community Engine’s Northern Rivers office. “Any new followers of groups on the engine attract $1 each”.

Rebekka Battista, Fundraising Co-ordinator for Our Kids, is calling for everybody, their colleagues and friends, to follow Ours Kids on communityengine.com.au so they can raise $5,000.

“Community Engine is a great platform and it provides an easy way for people to help us financially” said Ms Battista. “We are desperately trying to raise money to purchase paediatric equipment for our local hospitals and this is a great way for people to show their support”.

“We have around 1,000 organisations using the engine” said Dean Power. “It’s been a joy connecting them all, as so many people previously felt that having an online presence or using e-commerce were beyond their reach. So far over 37 not-for-profit groups have signed up to raise money. If a group attracts 4,000 new followers we will give them $4,000. We will keep giving until the money is gone”.

communityengine.com.au is a website to help small businesses and community organisations find new customers and members, stay in touch with existing customers or members  and sell goods and services online, including special offers. For everyone else it’s a personal guide to information, products and services from businesses and community groups they are interested in.

“The Northern Rivers was chosen as the place to start the engine because it’s a region of villages and people here have held onto their village values” said Dean Power. “Community Engine makes it easy to promote and sell online in a way that also reinforces a sense of community. Essentially, we are about putting business back into the community and community back into business”.

The tool is free to use with only a small fee for processing payments (4.5% for community groups, 6.5% for business).

To follow Our Kids and help them raise $5,000 go to communityengine.com.au  Search for Our Kids and then click to “follow” them. Then share with your networks – email, facebook, twitter.

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