Instagram Reels now offer fundraising capabilities | Digital Trends

There’s a new way to raise money for charitable causes via social media and it comes courtesy of Instagram. Instagram’s parent company, Meta, announced on Tuesday that the popular video- and photo-sharing app now offers new fundraising tools via Instagram Reels. The new fundraising capabilities are apparently part of a larger Earth Day/climate change initiative in which Meta proposes several social media-centric ways users of its apps can get involved and show support for environmental issues. screenshot Of those methods, the most intriguing, is a new fundraising feature for Instagram Reels that allows users to make and donate to fundraisers within a Reel (which is a video clip post that can be up to a minute long). According to Meta’s announcement, the new feature is available starting April 19 and supports over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations and can be used in more than 30 countries. The newly announced feature is live on the mobile app. Here’s how to access the new fundraising tool on Instagram Reels: Step 1: Open the Instagram app and record a clip on Reels as you normally would. Step 2: When you’re done recording, hit Preview. Step 3: Then tap Next. Step 4: On the Share…
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