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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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How does a company make profit in the charity fundraising space? We speak to Tim Cadogan, CEO of online fundraising platform GoFundMe.
We hear about the solar-powered boats being used by indigenous communities in the Amazon.
And, it is 30 years of the infamous Comic Sans font.
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Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones Researcher: Laura Cress Editor: Monica Soriano
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0:38.1 | Welcome to TechLife with me, Chris Valence. This week, the online crowdfunding platform, |
0:43.8 | which says it's raised over $30 billion for good causes. We speak to the boss of GoFundMe. |
0:50.5 | Probably the most significant category that has grown is related to cost of living. |
0:55.7 | So this could be for, depending on the country, gas, power, electricity, groceries, |
1:02.4 | those kinds of things have definitely grown over the last three or four years. |
1:09.9 | We hear how solar-powered boats are helping indigenous communities move away from petrol transport. |
1:17.1 | This river is contaminated pretty much only by gasoline boats. |
1:22.0 | And so by converting to electricity, this river is going to be able to run completely clean. |
1:28.0 | And we say, happy birthday in big round letters to one of the world's most divisive fonts, |
1:34.5 | Comic Sans, which turns 30 years old this month. |
1:38.3 | Music First up on TechLife, an item about online fundraising. |
2:02.9 | Just before the start of the pandemic, I spent some weeks reporting from a food bank in England. |
2:08.4 | People from all walks of life came in. |
2:10.8 | People with low-paid jobs, people with advanced degrees, people laid low by illness or family breakup. |
2:17.3 | It was a lesson in how easy it is for any of us to fall on hard times. |
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