History
In 2000 Zarine Kharas and Anne-Marie Huby founded JustGiving, a company to provide online tools and processing services to enable the collection of charitable donations.
The JustGiving website under the domain JustGiving.com launched in February 2001. The site allowed people to donate to charities registered with the site with a credit or debit card online, and offered people doing sponsored events the chance to build their own webpage to collect sponsorship from supporters.
In September 2005 over one million people had used the site since inception to raise donations online to donate to a charity.
2006 was JustGiving's first profitable year.
In June 2011, JustGiving claimed that it had provided its service for more than 9,000 UK registered charities and 1.9 million fundraising pages for users, collecting over £770 million since launch. The cumulative total passed £1 billion in March 2012.
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