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  1. COLLECTIVES

Raising Money

Link your Collective to your website, chat platforms and social media accounts to raise awareness and donations.

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Last updated 11 days ago

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If you already have active websites, blogs, chat platforms or social media accounts, you can direct your community to your Collective page to donate or support.

You can also showcase your current supporters, or .

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Open Collective provides a set of tools for you to integrate your fundraising efforts into your existing web and social spaces:

Create buttons for your site which link others to your fundraising pages

Embed certain information from Open Collective on your site, including contribution pages

Find out how to create a URL that takes a user to a specific part of your fundraising page

show off badges for Collectives and causes you back on our platform
Adding donate buttons and banners
Adding embeds to your website
Creating custom fundraising URLs