Toronto, Ontario (June 14, 2022) – Infāque, (pronounced In-fakk) founders Omar Butt and Fahad Qureshi have reinvented the nonprofit donation process by designing a frictionless, transparent and democratic platform, easing the process for all, and particularly targeting early-stage donors. The Infāque team members will showcase their social media philanthropic platform at the Collision Conference which takes place Monday through Thursday, June 20-23, at the Enercare Centre in downtown, Toronto. The company will exhibit onsite one day only, Tuesday, June 21 from Booth A1820 in the Philanthropy and Social Good Pavilion.
Infāque, from Old Arabic that translates as “selfless giving,” is representative of both Infāque’s mission as well as the childhood of co-founder Omar Butt. Growing up in a Pakistani family of educators on his mother’s side and businessmen on his father’s, altruism was ingrained as a value from an early age. His maternal grandparents run three schools in their hometown, touching students of different economic status and intent on improving their community. When Butt traveled to New York City for school, he quickly signed on as a volunteer with the Coalition for the Homeless. Now a resident of Toronto, he has continued his community involvement and maintained his family legacy. Butt has combined his love of helping people with his skills in business and technology to build a seamless system through which everyday people can make a difference.
Hailing from the same hometown as Butt’s maternal family, Fahad Quereshi claims that his own background is straight business, and he has spent his entire career in Tech. That said, it was through his job with a large bank company that he was provided an opportunity to take on pro bono work, and connect with a friend who ran a not-for-profit in Canada. He saw immediately that structural issues prohibited nonprofits from doing well. He ran a strategy workshop for that organization, but his mind turned to the question of how tech could be deployed to improve the situation.
Among his favorite childhood memories was the appearance of frogs everywhere, following the rain, and on summer nights, fireflies lighting up the backyard. This no longer happens in his hometown, and on a personal level, Quereshi was hit by the fact that – regardless of what you believe – his son may never see those frogs or fireflies due to the impact of human behavior on our environment.
The goal of Infāque is to shine a light on not only environmental causes, but also social-equity and health-related causes, enabling a wave of passionate philanthropists to flip the switch. The easy-to-use platform is transparent about every dollar donated and allows for passionate individuals to contribute to their selected causes, with their funding arriving in less than ten days.
The platform allows contributors to:
- Set up a monthly or adhoc subscription
- Select the cause/s about which they most care
- Put their donations on autopilot
- Receive to-the-dollar insights underscoring impact
- Digitally interact with nonprofit projects, campaigns and point-of-contacts
The platform allows nonprofits to:
- Launch projects or campaigns to address urgent needs, or
- Subscribe to the platform to digitally interact with their existing donors and generate funding
Infāque team’s goals at Collision are to seek exposure, mentorship and the right type of investment relationship that fosters innovation around philanthropic giving in a digital world.
For additional information please visit www.infaque.com.
