Although nonprofits in the United States have been slower to embrace mobile phones for health purposes than the rest of the world, mobiles are catching on as a way to reach diverse populations across the U.S. "Mobile quot;It's always on, always with you and provides personal access to information." Internet Sexuality Information Corinne Ramey, MobileActive.org Although quot;Mobile provides a fantastic channel for communication," said Erin Edgerton, senior social media strategist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "It's

All 501c3’s in the United States have profiles on GuideStar. 3. Those five points made, if your organization has old information inside of GuideStar, then you have old information on Network for Good, Give A Tweet, Change.org, Razoo and Facebook Causes. Updating GuideStar is a bit tedious because you have to enter a lot of financial data, but in this new era of social media fundraising, keeping your organization’s information current in GuideStar is an absolute must. 1. Social media fundraising is built upon and empowered by the GuideStar database.

Because of how the information is categorized on the back end, they are able to relate projects and programs with ease, allowing the end user to see the full picture of how impactful the work of WCS really is.   One And so is the NY Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo, Central Park Zoo and the Queens Zoo.  Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society, saves wildlife and wild lands.

Since the popular Facebook fundraising App Causes was built using GuideStar’s database of nonprofits in the United States and Canada, only nonprofits in the U.S. Considering that 70% Facebooks users are outside of the United States and that most of its growth is occuring internationally, Ammado’s timing is very good. That said, nonprofit’s inside the United States and Canada can utilize Causes’ fundraising tools. There are some amazing nonprofits at the grassroots working miracles daily with relatively small amounts of cash, but unfortunately,

8220;Right now, SMS is clunky for many users, and ultimately, a transitional technology as consumer expectations of calling systems improve,” said Darius Roberts who co-founded Aible Consulting, an Information Management and Information Technology consulting firm. About a year ago, Humane Society of the United States experienced an increased response rate of 77% during their year-end fundraising drive by texting an appeal to their donors with mobile numbers 24 hours before an appeal hit their email boxes. 83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones. 35% of

Did you know your government – federal, state, and local – is in the grassroots information network? If you thought twitter was just micro blogging the latest celebrity or personal news gossip then you’re missing out on the information underground. Department of State I keep finding cool people/organizations to follow.

Monday, November 10th, in an initiative similar to Blog Action Day , thousands of bloggers will post about refugee issues to raise awareness as part of Bloggers Unite . The Bloggers Unite site has Bloggers Unite for Refugees digital badges you can add to your blog or website, as well as links to information about refugee issues: UK Refugee Services Lutheran Refugee Services Aotearoa-New Zealand Refugee Services United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrant Children Church World Service Immigrant & Refugee Program Women's Commission for Refugee Women &

have only been subscribed a few days and yet to receive a text alert, but I am hoping that the text message will include a link to a mobile web page where I can easily enter my contact information to send an email to my members of Congress… from my iPhone. DO Something is utilizing text alerts to inform individuals about volunteer opportunities in their area. Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message.

I have a confession to make: I'm rooting for some organization, any organization, to unseat the Humane Society of the United States as the winner of this year's Nonprofit Video Awards . It's Quite the contrary: it was very well made, with important, disturbing, and timely information. It's not that last year's winning video, " Overlooked: The Lives of Animals Raised for Food ", was bad. No, the problem was, the video played at the 2008 NTC -- replete with images of animal abuse, including a long segment on the inhumane caging of chickens -- projected on a big screen,

Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits . They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs.