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Reddit Thread Prompts More Than $200,000 in Donations to Foster Children Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

After a Reddit user posted to the Ask Reddit thread “What is something you've done purely out of the goodness of your heart but have not told anyone?" users shared an array of good deeds.

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How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. There’s enough children impacted by the crisis in Syria to fill every professional baseball and professional football stadium in the US.

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Social Trends for 2024

Media Cause

They hold summer camps for grieving children who have lost a parent, caregiver, sibling, or someone close to them, so they can form a community with other kids who have experienced such huge loss. Despite dealing with something so heavy as grieving children, its social media presence is 10/10.

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Can “Viral” Videos Really Create Social Change?

Care2

The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. Since 1986 the LRA has abducted 66K children, and turned them into child soldiers. Invisible Children is hoping to change that.

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10 Common Misconceptions Nonprofits Have About Bitcoin Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A single donor donated $56 million worth of Bitcoin to 60 nonprofits at the start of 2018 – on Reddit! Organizations as diverse as Save the Children , No Kid Hungry , Rainforest Foundation US , Trees for the Future , US4Warriors , and the Mona Foundation are showing successes from actively fundraising with cryptocurrency.

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

Anne is the online media coordinator for Green Hour® , an NWF program geared toward getting children outside in nature. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. I told her just to try it and see what happens.

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12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights

Tech Soup

Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). Engage with the Internet community (the social news site Reddit played a huge role in the SOPA Internet blackout). What Can You Do?