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America's Giving Challenge for Facebook Causes

Wild Apricot

The Case Foundation, Facebook Causes and PARADE Publications just launched the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a competition designed to raise both awareness and funds for charitable causes. Tags: Fundraising nptech Social networking Facebook. What I find most interesting is that the Challenge.(

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The 2009 America's Giving Challenge

Care2

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. Tags: Nonprofit Events Social Networking.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. Once your nonprofit’s Facebook page has been created, it requires no more than three to five hours a week on average to maintain.

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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Summer of Social Good by Mashable - "Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet. These are some links I wanted to share from June 16th. Find me on Delicious for more! " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Mozilla Service Week: Use Your Geek Skills for Good in Your Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. What are your plans for giving service to your local community this fall? .

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. More and more, now we can.

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