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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

75% of Young Adults Gave to Charity Last Year, Study Finds – News – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas – The new Millennial Donor Survey is out! "Charities What do you think? Would love to hear your thoughts. Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks.

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Gary Vaynerchuk Wants Kevin Rose To Shave His Head for Charity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this case, it's Kevin Rose of digg fame. They did, so she did. Gary Vaynerchuk has come up with a variation on this and he isn't shaving his head. He's calling out someone else to shave their head. Meanwhile, if you want to help out DonorsChoose.org and use wordpress, here's something that doesn't require you (or Kevin Rose) to shave.

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Which Social Network Use Base Is More Altruistic?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users?

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Win a Sony PS3 and Support Young Homeless People from the UK

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. It isn't just self either, the charity will benefit and be able to help a homeless young person. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 and the ps3 tag. Check out Nick's post and let's send a little blog buzz his way.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. The campaign.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far. Steve Bridger's slideshow " Charities and the Social Web: Does It Mean We Have to Change Our Jobs?

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