Charity Grants Can Help Tech Solve Social Ills In Africa - Ventures Africa

Charity Grants Can Help Tech Solve Social Ills In Africa - Ventures Africa: Loren Treisman, trust executive for grant-making foundation Indigo Trust, believes that time has come for more charitable organisations to tap into technology to tackle social issues in Africa. Indigo Trust funds tech projects that seek to bring about social change on the continent.

“Information technologies have the capability to achieve social impact at scale and at a relatively low cost,” she says. “One can deduce that when people are able to access, share and create information, they are empowered to make the changes they would like to see in their own lives and communities.” She hopes that Indigo Trust and other organisations can use technology to put power into the hands of African citizens.

Reddit is getting a fundraising button - Technolog on NBCNews.com

Reddit is getting a fundraising button - Technolog on NBCNews.com: Now, for the first time, Reddit users will be able to execute some of these fundraisers within Reddit-branded pages.

Why Social Media Matters: Networking and Engagement - Resource Center - AFP

Why Social Media Matters: Networking and Engagement - Resource Center - AFP: Networking is the new professional currency in our increasingly connected world, says Beth Kanter, and successful charities are changing their mindset to emphasize social media, openness, engagement and authenticity.

Kanter, author of The Networked Nonprofit and her forthcoming Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, will be one of the featured presenter at the 2012 Nonprofit Management Institute, Sept. 11-12, cosponsored by AFP and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Google launches crisis map anticipating hurricane Isaac | Fox News

Google launches crisis map anticipating hurricane Isaac | Fox News: To do its part, Google has launched the new website aggregating info on tropical storm Isaac as part of its Crisis Response project.

While No “Holy Grail,” Razoo Reports Fundraising Success - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

While No “Holy Grail,” Razoo Reports Fundraising Success - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: Razoo, a platform providing online giving methods and solutions to nonprofit organizations, has been the driving behind 15 “Give to the Max” events across the country. These Give to the Max days are 24-hour races in which regional nonprofits compete to raise the most money, and the events have raised awareness and funds for organizations from Greater Washington to Minnesota to Alabama, as NPQ noted earlier this year. Since 2007, Razoo has helped 14,000 organizations collect a total of $100 million. “People tend to think of online as removing the personal quality of giving, but it does provide us with powerful ways of continuing to engage donors post that first donation,” says Razoo Executive Director Lesley Mansford. “So it’s the beginning of a dialogue and relationship.”

Boston’s Philanthropic Youth: How Tech Leaders Give Back Early | BostInno

Boston’s Philanthropic Youth: How Tech Leaders Give Back Early | BostInno: Three months ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a poignant article called Young, Rich, and Charitable, focusing on the recent giving habits of Silicon Valley’s young tech elites. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Mark Benioff of Salesforce both have written $100M checks to charity this year. VC firm Andreesen Horowitz announced that all six of it’s partners will give away half of their wealth. A handful of young tech entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk (PayPal), signed the Giving Pledge offering up their entire wealth across their life time. Add to that Sergey Brin of Google offering a $1M matching donation and Jack Dorsey of LinkedIn fronting a huge event for BUILD, and it’s clear to see that the tech community is looking to not only change the face of

Report Explores Nonprofit Social Media Trends - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Report Explores Nonprofit Social Media Trends - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: Sponsored by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), Common Knowledge and Blackbaud, the “2012 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report” has been released.

Stretching Your Tech Dollars: Save a Penny, Lose Nine Cents? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Stretching Your Tech Dollars: Save a Penny, Lose Nine Cents? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: Nonprofit organizations are experts at squeezing every last bit of value out of an asset. After all, a penny saved is a penny earned. A penny earned by spending a dime, however, is a 900 percent loss.

Text-to-donate: charitable giving in 8 characters | TechSoup Canada

Text-to-donate: charitable giving in 8 characters | TechSoup Canada: I’ll come back to this, first the facts:

Text-to-donate in Canada is made possible through the Mobile Giving Foundation Canada (MGFC), a registered charity whose purpose it is to enable text message donations for the benefit of other registered charities in Canada. Text-to-donate is only possible through the strategic partnerships that MGFC has established with:

the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association;
the Mobile Giving Foundation U.S.;
the Canadian Wireless Operators;
and the charitable organizations and qualified donees running mobile giving campaigns.

OMG! You’re Not Using Text Messaging to Reach Constituents? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

OMG! You’re Not Using Text Messaging to Reach Constituents? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: And it’s not just for kids. As text messaging has grown ubiquitous, so too has its popularity as a simple, inexpensive way for nonprofits to reach their constituents. A great deal of attention has been focused on the use of text messaging to raise funds following huge natural disasters, but organizations have also been uncovering innovative ways to leverage text messaging to engage community members in their work. From text-based applications to mobile customer relationship management platforms to simple one-to-one communications, text messaging has suddenly become sexy again.

Best Practices for Association Microsites

Best Practices for Association Microsites: Micro web sites and sub branding seem to go hand in hand, as does the angst and elation both bring to trade association marketing departments. I completely support micro site development; it just seems many are launched without strategic goals to support a sub brand, and many have an expiration date. I am not alone in my love/hate relationship with micro web sites (micro sites). In our research for the “Sub-Brands and Micro Web Site Use by U.S. Associations 2012: Benchmarks and Best Practices,” white paper, we found that nearly one-half of U.S. associations have deployed micro Web sites to promote sub brands, and many of the association marketing execs I talked to mentioned a host of issues with the sites, including a lack of strategic tie back to the master brand.

40% of Association Members’ Online Time is in Professional Communities [Research]

40% of Association Members’ Online Time is in Professional Communities [Research]: A new research project from the Society of New Communication Research called, The Social Mind, examines the rise of new social behaviors and interrelationships between individuals, organizations, and influencers. The three year series of studies surveyed more than 400 professionals and highly educated people in North America who participate in social media networks.

The research found that 40% of professionals’ online time is spent engaging in peer-to-peer online communities, followed by interacting with friends at 31% and family at 13%.

Crowd-funding campaigns gaining popularity with Canadians | News | National Post

Crowd-funding campaigns gaining popularity with Canadians | News | National Post: TORONTO — A burlesque troupe, a film about female Palestinian race car drivers and a bullied American bus monitor — as diverse as those topics are, they all share a common Canadian thread.

All three projects sparked crowd-funding campaigns, an Internet-based trend thrust into the spotlight recently by a Toronto man’s wildly successful fundraising effort for a Rochester, N.Y., grandmother.

How to Raise Funds Through Crowd Funding Platforms | Social Media Today

How to Raise Funds Through Crowd Funding Platforms | Social Media Today

Razoo raises $100M for social causes without dancing, PBS, or Milton Berle | VentureBeat

Razoo raises $100M for social causes without dancing, PBS, or Milton Berle | VentureBeat: Crowdfunding-for-causes platform Razoo hit the $100 million mark today. It raised more than half of this amount in the past nine months, ever since veteran gaming executive Lesley Mansford took over as CEO and applied her unique expertise to fundraising for social good.

One Tweet from a CEO is worth 100 Tweets from Staff

One Tweet from a CEO is worth 100 Tweets from Staff

AFP Suncoast Blog

AFP Suncoast Blog: Social Media and Fundraising: Tampa Metropolitan YMCA

Humor Site Aspires to Be 'The Onion' for Nonprofits - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Humor Site Aspires to Be 'The Onion' for Nonprofits - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: John Suart wants his humor Web site to be The Onion for nonprofits. But first he must grapple with the earnestness of nonprofit workers trying to save the world.