Donors actually respond to a specific donation goal better than a generic call for funds. Trinet is a full-service web firm, with offices in California and Washington DC and over 60 web design professionals , specializing in strategy consulting, design, development and online fundraising. Ron Weber, Trinet Internet Solutions, Inc.

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. For a while, we were actually funding one story a week and trying to cycle through those. laughter].and

I mentioned the work of the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation. The Fund supports organizations that are using "inner work" to inform their activism. One of the founding members of the Fund, Paula Sammons, who is a Program Associate of Family Income and Assets & Leadership at the W.K. Who are the founding members?

The Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) and California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) today named TechSoup Global one of three winners of the 2009 California Digital Inclusion Program Award. read more. Tools Web Building

Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. He is also the founder of Spot.Us,  an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge. You can pitch a story to be crowd-funded or donate to an existing pitch.  Dave is a journalist 2.0,

the Jewish news weekly of Northern California: "Whoever thought you’d see a former U.S. poet laureate singing a kitschy jingle on YouTube, asking for funds for a small nonprofit that most of his readers have never heard of?In Goodbye, galas: Jewish nonprofits turn to social media for new types of fundraising | j.

Holiday Matinee is a Creative Services firm out of San Diego, California that is doing some great work with some innovative fundraising techniques. Tags: Fund Raising & NPOs Non Profit Innovators David Brown fundraising Holiday Matinee Innovators non profits SXSW This week we have a great SXSW conversation with David J.

Special Olympics of Northern California. World Wildlife Fund. I’ll be covering that in more detail next week, but in the meantime take a quick browse through the sites below. It becomes immediately clear that the design principles and purpose of nonprofit mobile websites are quite different from desktop sites. m.npr.org. Thanks!

The people who work in online advocacy and fundraising are some of the most creative people I know. In 2009 their campaigns made me laugh or helped me channel my frustration over injustices into action. couple of them moved me so much that I even teared up. Here’s my list of the best websites and online campaigns from 2009. The result?

Tab on the Special Olympics of Northern California Facebook Page , if you have access to and a working knowledge of Dreamweaver and Photoshop. icons [ Example: World Wildlife Fund ]. The Static FBML App. The Static FMBL App is the most important App on Facebook for Nonprofit Admins to master.  Causes App. Involver Apps. Social RSS App.