Charities open their finances to donors via smartphone apps – USATODAY.com : Potential donors in New Jersey and Washington state can already check out charities on their smartphones before they write checks. Other states are likely to follow, says Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University MORE >>

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Big news for political fundraising. The FEC just ruled to allow text donations to political campaigns. Text donations have become a major part of non-profit fundraising, and have long been used by 501C3s to spur mass numbers of small donations. Read here how This American Life makes excellent use of text donations ). When Can I Get Started? MORE >>

Tips on Great Web-Site Design With Donors in Mind - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : The problems with most nonprofit Web sites today are too much text and not enough great visuals, said Ann-Laura Parks at last week’s AFP TechKnow conference in Orlando, Fla., MORE >>

If you know me you know I like to use Hootsuite to manage my social media feeds. Hootsuite has started offering a free service called #HootFeed. HootFeed is a free tool built for sharing twitter feeds with an audience. And…it’s not just for the conference and event scene. How can you harness it? Let us know in the comments section. MORE >>