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Reddit to Rally Volunteers for Needy Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Last year, social bookmarking site Reddit partnered up to raise over $3,000 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org), a non-profit selected by the website’s users to benefit from the fund-raising drive. This year, they’re trying something different — raising volunteers instead of cash. read more ).

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding. I am currently raising funds for a story that I believe needs to be told about the 2011 people’s uprising in Madison, Wisconsin. I have a blog , a website , a twitter account , a facebook page, a reddit account and we recently launched a Kickstarter campaign.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Community foundations sponsor many donor-advised funds (DAFs) which are like mini-foundations but they are not public. Engage really well-funded organizations you have a relationship with and ask for suggestions about how to find funding.

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Reddit yet? Cute Aliens, Community News, and Youth Venture.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last night, I attended the Berkman Thursday Blogger Meeting which featured Alexis and Steve, Reddit Founders. Reddit is a community news service with ratings. Alexis and Steve received venture capital from a company that funds projects by youth (these guys must have been all of 22). Reddit is like del.icio.us

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6 Ways To Make Your Nonprofit’s Holiday Campaign Successful

TechImpact

Twitter and Facebook are still the two most used outlets, but other spheres, such as Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, and more are gaining more ground every day. Everyone is out there looking for funding, especially around the holidays. Make Giving Fun.

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Are You Ready to Say No?|Crowdfunding’s Ethical Boundaries

Connection Cafe

One Reddit user proposed that anyone who looked at these illegal photos should donate money to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. On Tuesday, September 2, the Prostate Cancer Foundation released the following statement : A post appeared on Reddit late Monday afternoon, September 1, 2014. To: Guys, we’re literally worse than cancer.

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Why "Free Agent" Social Communities Rock

Care2

The free agent community exists on a social network and decides, as a group, to raise funds for an unafilliated nonprofit organization. The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The Reddit fundraising challenge that raised almost $60,000.

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