crowdsourcing | storytelling | citizenship
Peopleâ€&#x;s Insights: Volume 1, Issue 38
Chase Community Giving
Chase Community Giving Chase Community Giving empowers customers & employees to nominate charities to compete for $7.5 million of funding. Charities with the most votes from the public win a larger share of the funding.
facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
People decide what matters People participated in the program to support causes they believe in, and in many cases, to give back to charities that have helped their loved ones and their local communities.
facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
Charities gain funding & exposure Non-profit consultants believe that the platform offers charities more than funding – the charities also gain mass exposure and new supporters from the Chase Facebook community of 3.8 million people.
philanthropy.com/blogs/social-philanthropy/are-online-philanthropy-contests-worth-the-effort/31540
Benefit to Chase By targeting charities with a voting contest, Chase energized the local communities of numerous causes, expanded exposure of the Chase brand, and built credibility as a socially responsible corporate.
1) huffingtonpost.com/jack-ucciferri/chase-bank-giving_b_1891147.html 2) facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
Tapping into local communities The program sparked grassroots movements as local communities took it upon themselves to promote local charities, using tools provided by Chase as well as their own innovative promotion ideas.
1) nashua.patch.com/articles/spartans-win-50-000-with-a-little-help-from-their-friends 2) facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
But should charities participate? Non-profit executives remain skeptical about voting contests, which, they believe, minimize peopleâ€&#x;s involvement to just voting, pit charities against each other, and provide „freeâ€&#x; advertising for big corporations.
philanthropy.com/blogs/social-philanthropy/are-online-philanthropy-contests-worth-the-effort/31540
Which charity is “more important”? With up to 5 votes to cast and nearly 30,000 charities to choose from, people were forced ask themselves which cause was “more important,” leading to anger and bitterness after the winners were announced.
facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
Support for Chase Brand evangelists condemned the bitterness of “sore losers,� pointed out the benefits other than funding, and argued that charities that can successfully mobilize their communities to vote deserve to be rewarded.
facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
Wave of nationalism The decision to award the top grant of $250,000 to the Egyptian Cancer Network* was not received well, and people were enraged that the money would not be used to the benefit of U.S. citizens.
*ECN is a U.S. based non-profit that provides support to hospitals and non-profits in Egypt. facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
Charities v.s. customers Most of the debate focused on which charity was most deserving, but several people pointed out that the $7.5 million could instead have been given to customers in the form of better rates and products.
facebook.com/ChaseCommunityGiving
Demand for shared value All the responses, both positive and negative, had one thing in common: they acknowledged and demanded the need for shared value, and rewarded or punished Chase for the same.
gerson.org/gerpress/chase-giving-disqualifies-gerson/
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