Via Katya's Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Network for Good  has launched their charity badges with some great support from Yahoo!. 

Katya's cause, Mercy Ships, operates hospital ships in the world’s poorest nations. These are floating operating rooms. Top doctors and surgeons from all over the world work for the organization which provides free services to thousands who had no access to medical care.

I've been experimenting with personal fundraising widgetsover the last month and managed to raise over $800 to help send a young Cambodian woman to college!    The Network for Good charity badge is newest entry in this category of online fundraising tools available to nonprofits and their supporters to raise money. These badges or widgets make it easy to launch a personal fundraising campaign on your blog.

Katya's description of how it works ...

you can upload personal photos and text, link to your own video, and fundraise for any of more than one million charities—including the ones you work for!  In designing the badge, we put the spotlight on the individual fundraiser for two reasons: first, the number one reason people give is because someone asks them (especially someone they know) and second, people like to create things with their personal imprint.  The badge enables this, plus it tracks donations in real time so people can see the difference they are making.  Network for Good processes the donations and transfers the funds directly to the nonprofit.

On our site, you can build a badge for your nonprofit and give it to your supporters—or let them create their own. 

Better yet, create it through Yahoo!’s Network of Giving campaign and your nonprofit could receive up to $50,000 in matching funds, plus billing on Yahoo!’s web site.  Great publicity!

So far, it works on nearly all blogs and some social networking sites, and we also have a simple text version you can put in your email signature—but it’s not yet working everywhere.  It’s a Beta work in progress!  Try it out and share your triumphs and frustrations here or at our badge blog.

It is very easy to set up and put on your blog.  I just set one up for my favorite Cambodian charity, the Sharing Foundation.  If you're doing any blog fundraising for a charity in the next few weeks, why not check it out.   You might also receive some matching funds from Yahoo!