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New on SSIR: How does celebrity impact your fundraising?

Amy Sample Ward

Read the post below or visit SSIR to read and comment with that community. Both campaigns leveraged the community and competition aspects of social media. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. How are you working to build trust with your community?

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Telework Cool Tools: SlideRocket

Tech Soup

We regard it as a TechSoup green product donation in that it makes it easy to for people to communicate easily regardless of where they are, thus making telework more manageable. TechSoup started putting it to use right away, particularly on our Online Community and Social Media Team. TechSoup’s Telework Team.

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A Free Agent and Nonprofits Working Together To End Homelessness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are also seeing the rise of “ non-state actors &# doing humanitarian work in places like Pakistan. It is in the best interest of the community at large for us to work with Mark and other free agents.&#. The computer room in the First Steps for Families Shelter. Photo by Ruby Girl Creations.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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