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Charity Hackathons in Cape Town & Oregon in July

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August 26, 2024

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Eric Daams

Two awesome events are taking place halfway across the world from each other this July 16. Cape Town and Bend, Oregon will both be playing host to do_action events: charity hackathons where small teams create a free website for a local non-profit organization in a single day.

If you’re in Cape Town or Bend, you can still register as a team. Teams consist of a project manager, designer, two developers, a social media manager, content manager and quality assurance tester. Find out more about both events through the links below:

We’re in Darwin, Australia, which is about as far away from both events as we could be, but we’re excited to be able to support both events by contributing a free Charitable Pro license to every non-profit participating. If your organization is taking part in either event and you’d like to know more about how you can take advantage of Charitable, we’d love to chat with you. You can reach us via our support page.

Eric Daams

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Accept Donations in South African Rand with PayFast – Charitable

July 6, 2016

[…] Our PayFast integration comes just in time for the Cape Town Hackathon later this month, which we are contributing to as sponsors. […]

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