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Which Company is the Most Socially Responsible and Generous to Nonprofits: Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? LinkedIn? MySpace? Flickr? Google?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. 1) Facebook. Facebook helped launch the company Causes which has raised more than $20 million for various nonprofits. 2) Google/YouTube.

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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. Some of the most notable donations include $100M+ to Fidelity Charitable, $29M to Donors Choose , $4 million to the Ellen Wildlife Fund , $50M to a dozen universities, and $56M to almost 60 different charities from an anonymous donor.

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

Some of the results include: Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site amongst young people - used by over 7 in 10 (72%) of all 11-25 year olds; rising to 80% of 17-25 year olds, those of college/university age – and to 83% of those who are currently at, or who have already been to, university. What It Means.

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Research Friday: ASU is an Important Central Hub for Nonprofit Organizations

ASU Lodestar Center

& Management Student, Arizona State University. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook. The type of tie depicted in a social network map depends on a study's content and purpose (Knoke and Yang, 2008) [3]. Mary McGillicuddy , Nonprofit Leadership.

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Research Friday: So, where is Bob?

ASU Lodestar Center

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. 1] (In 2008, 26% of adults used an SNS.) As can be noted, many are on multiple sites: Facebook – 92%. 52% of Facebook users access that site at least once a day. ".a MySpace – 29%.

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Shifting our Role in the Hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. As a member of the planning committee, I became even more geeked out about this intimate, interactive learning opportunity.

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Steve Bridger › Colalife: make it real

Steve Bridger

Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study , which says providing sanitation and safe water is the top route to reducing world poverty. Please join the Colalife group on Facebook; 6,391 members… and counting. Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at 11:05 am.

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