Chircle

A little charity idea — a single direct debit with a nice interface that let you give to charities really quickly and split up a fixed amount.

When: 2012
Stage: A prototype
Role: Maker ("A More Monsters hack by @stef 2012")
Outcome: A hack-day project, not taken forward — despite the page at the time saying “I’m taking this forward into a project.”

Archived screenshot of Chircle — Archived screenshot. The site itself is gone; this is the evidence.

From the site: "Giving made easy: take control over your monthly charitable giving, all from your browser." Choose a fixed amount you'd like to give to charity and divide it up however you want. "Tight month? Drop it to zero at any time. Feeling flush? Give a one-off gift without the painful credit card forms." Let your friends give for you: allocate a percentage of your monthly giving to a friend — they get to choose how it is spent. Get an email each month to say where your monthly giving went. "This is a beta - no money changes hands yet."

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Earlier in projects: Accenture: Festival of Ideas. Later in projects: Convotate.

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