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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity.

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GoFundMe Asks Donors To Tip Them! What’s Up With That?

Bloomerang

What tipping is not Crowdsource Tipping is NOT the same as it appears in online donations where donors may opt to cover processing fees for your nonprofit organization. and knows that your organization receives the full $40 they intended! How does tipping work on crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platforms?

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All About the Pledge

Connection Cafe

On road trips as a child my dad would frequently joke that if we drove long enough we’d eventually find a pledge drive on a local NPR station. Later in life, when I traveled extensively for my job, I’d call him when the town I was visiting was in pledge and my wife, who travels for her job, loves to do the same with me.

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9 Social Media for Social Good Sites You Should know About

NetWits

Social media for social good is grassroots organizing, fundraising and impact in the digital world. Crowdrise came on the scene with a big splash in 2010. Causes was the very first application built to work with Facebook a few short years ago and now they’ve seen 30 Million dollars raised for 27,000 non-profits.

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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Their founders cover the overhead cost to keep the Forever Free Pledge going, and as such they’ve been able to share the wealth with the Malala Fund, Girl Scouts, StoryCorps, and March for Our Lives. More than 1,000 organizations later and they still focus on simplified solutions with an attractive pricing structure.

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Gaming for Good, Joel Bartlett and the Super Chick Sisters

NetWits

Did you build the games in-house, or have you worked with various agencies to have your games built? We have created most of our games in-house, but we did work with MCM Net on our Super Meat Boy parody, Super Tofu Boy, and we have worked with This Is Pop on the peta2 game Breasts, Not Animal Tests. Start with a great idea.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: Successfully Going Mobile

Amy Sample Ward

millions PCs in Q4 2010. If Millennials can’t find or connect with an organization the way they want to, they will go find a different organization. 79% of respondents volunteered in 2010, and they prefer to do it in groups. No such thing as un-connected: you have to be relevant wherever they are, when they want.

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