Decentralized Fundraising Application Using Blockchain

It is critical for a donor to understand where and how their money is being used. This will not only make them happy, but it will also encourage them to donate again and propose or publicise donations, resulting in a large donation amount for the needy. This paper proposes a decentralized application which utilizes blockchain and smart contracts which is built with the aim of helping the needy and underprivileged people by providing a platform that is secured, flawless, easy to use and transparent with the funds. Fundraising applications have come into existence to help people and communities alike. But these applications have been far from perfect. People have shown general distrust in a third-party to securely handle their funds before reaching the people donations were meant for. Some reports of misuse of collected funds have worsened the situation. The lack of transparency and involvement of third-party has hindered people from donating at times and have left many needy people without any help. To combat these issues, we have decided to build a fundraising website accessible to everyone whose working will be transparent. Registered users, once verified, can donate to various charity drives and funds and also ask for funds when in need. using Machine learning recommendations of similar fundraisers are made who like to donate to some particular charity drives. To acheive transparency, the blockchain technology is used to store records of donations made by the users. Decentralization of fundraising process also eliminates involvement of any third-party group.