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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. Notes Sophie in the recent Sharing Foundation newsletter, "Not many people in Cambodia are as lucky as we are, so I decided I just wanted to help give them money to buy food and water, because I was from the country."

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. In fact, the campaign went over goal and we able to raise enough money to send another young person to college.

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My Facebook Birthday Cause: Thank You (and Some Unsolicited Feedback To Causes)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. There was link to the Charity for more information, but it made wonder how they are selecting these recommendations.

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Amanda Rose, Twestival Leader, Reflects on Twestival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This world-wide fundraiser, with a $1 million fundraising goal, brought together the Twitter community for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water. The first post I wrote was called " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work.

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Buy a Song, Support a Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

Profits from the record raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. It also raised money for famine relief in Africa. raises money for Amnesty's Darfur work. Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17th to raise money for Red Hot , an organization, "dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture."

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