Announcing… 29 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2012!

Every January Nonprofit Tech 2.0 selects a new set of nonprofit avatars to be featured in the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 banner. The selection process is a personal one. I choose nonprofits that in my mind have excelled at social media throughout the previous year and represent causes that I feel are timely for the coming year. This year’s “Favorite Nonprofits” encompass a wide range of issues and organizations that are working to:

• Protect endangered wildlife and animals worldwide: @WildAid, @RhinosIRF, @ALDFAnimalLaw, @AnimalsAsia, @SealRescue, @ApeActionAfrica
• Prevent children from dying from lack of access to clean water or medical care: @Water, @AlexsLemonade
• Empower entrepreneurs at the grassroots to start micro-enterprises: @Kiva, @DarfurStoves
• Hold corporate-owned media accountable to its democratic purpose to educate (not manipulate) the masses: @AccuracyInMedia, @NPR
• Educate about the reality of rampant childhood sexual abuse in America: @Darkness2Light
• Protect the world’s remaining indigenous people: @Survival
• Create an ethical and sustainable food production and distribution system: @SlowFoodUSA, @FarmSanctuary
• Respond rapidly and efficiently to natural and humanitarian crises: @TheIRC, @ShelterBox
• Educate about the realities of climate change in the 21st Century: @TckTckTck
• Prevent students from dropping out of high school and increase literacy: @CISNational, @FirstBook
• Empower girls to empower themselves worldwide: @GirlEffect, @PlanGlobal
• Protect the world’s remaining wild habitats: @Nature_org, @RnfrstAlliance
• Expose racism and teach tolerance in America: @Tolerance_org
• Advocate for the civil rights of the LGBT community: @GLAAD
• Prevent further nuclear proliferation: @Plough_Shares
• Organize workers in America to fight for a living wage: @SEIU
• Safeguard human rights in a politically volatile world: @Amnesty
• Teach human history, art, and culture: @Smithsonian