Donations instead of gifts

Turn your birthday into a fundraising event this year and give something back

Create fundraising event

Didn't need new socks? And you already had a ton of mugs with funny quotes anyway?

No matter if you're turning 15 or 50  – use your birthday for a good cause and ask for a special gift this year: collect donations for your favourite charity.

How it works

Register your fundraising event

Simply create you fundraising event free of charge. Choose a picture and a description and describe which cause you would like to support. 

Choose a charity project

Choose one or more from over 25,000 charity projects and  support them with your fundraising event.

Invite your friends

Invite your friends via mail, Facebook or your social media channels. Together you can help more. 

Let's go!

Change the world and start a fundraising event for your birthday.

Start fundraising event

Why set up a fundraising event on betterplace.org? 

 

  1. Free and easy registration

    It only takes a few minutes to create a fundraising event and it's free of charge. If you need help our support team will answer all your questions via mail, phone or chat.
     

  2. Over 25.000 registered charity projects

    Do you want to collect donations for pencils for a local school project? Or support solar cooking projects in Kenya? Whatever the cause – simply choose one of our 25.000 projects. The donations from your fundraising event will go directly to the charity that runs the project. 

     

  3. More than 10 years experience in fundraising

    For over 10 years now our team has been supporting donors, fundraisers and social organizations to make the wold a better place day by day.

 

Successful fundraising events

Christoph has come up with a donation rap to celebrate his birthday and is raising money with the help of his friends, family and colleagues. All donations go to a medical aid project from Madagascar. 

 

167 donors have collected €12,270

On her birthday Saskia's friends donated to the orphanage where she had recently spent time volunteering.

 

16 donors have collected 671.

Rike also asked for donations instead of gifts and helped a school project in Ethiopia as well as a breeding station for elephants in Kenya.

26 donors
 have collected 500.


You still have questions?

Get in touch and we will help you!

Mirjam and team
[email protected]
030 - 56 83 86 59