Small donation

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

Traditionally, this includes, for example, a contribution to the bell bag or the donation of small amounts of change to charitable institutions in containers provided for this purpose, for example at department store checkouts. The collection of small amounts of donations using value-added services , SMS and micropayment or social payment systems is also playing an increasing role.

Both in charity and in political donations area have small donations in modern times a more important are wider meaning: It managed, for example, Barack Obama during the campaign for the presidential election in the United States in 2008 alone in June 2008, 52 million US dollars through online services raise; Of this, $ 31 million was micro-donations of $ 200 or less.

In Germany, for example, the Germany rounds up campaign has raised over 2.1 million euros in micro donations to charitable projects since March 1, 2012 (as of March 6, 2014).

See also

literature

  • Ernst Stahl / Thomas Krabichler / Markus Breitschaft / Georg Wittmann: Payment processing on the Internet - meaning, status quo and future challenges . Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3937195122

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b W. Rainer Walz, Ludwig von Auer (Ed.): Donation and charitable law in Europe. Comparative law, legal dogmatic, econometric and sociological studies. Mohr Siebeck (Tübingen) 2007, p. 50, ISBN 9783161491351
  2. ↑ Gerhard Geckle : The new Charity Law - With the new donations and foundation law , p.78, 1st edition, Haufe Media Group (Nov 2007), ISBN 9783448087321
  3. ↑ Manuel Merz, Stefan Rhein, Julia Vetter: Wahlkampf im Internet: Handbook for the political online campaign , p. 169, Lit Verlag (May 2009), ISBN 382589262X
  4. ↑ [1] , website of deutschland-rundet-auf, accessed on March 6, 2014