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20 Must-Know Fundraising and Social Media Stats

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Thus, in time for the year-end fundraising season, below are 20 stats about fundraising and social media that every nonprofit needs to know. billion people worldwide donated money to nonprofit organizations. Source: Money for Good. Email results in one-third of online fundraising revenue. In 2014, 1.4 Source: M+R.

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Latest Resources to Help Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Victims

Care2

Looking to help the victims of the Japan earthquake and Tusanmi, but don’t know where to start? Frogloop compiled a list of resources of nonprofits, companies, and do-gooders who are using their tech-savvy and organizing skills to raise money and help locate missing people. By Roberto Maxwell. American Red Cross Text to Donate.

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Community Is Better than Cute Cats: How to Raise Money for Your Unsexy, but Important, Cause

NTEN

Even if the mission of your nonprofit doesn't have anything to do with adorable cats or precious babies, you can still raise money using social media. When the earthquake hit Japan in March, nonprofits of all sizes, budgets, and national reputations put up Fundraising Projects on Causes. Run project-based fundraising campaigns.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Maybe it isn’t even money, but feedback or advice, maybe an introduction or volunteer time. We can’t focus just on money.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The world’s largest association in advancing philanthropy is probably the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in the US. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

Technology for nonprofit development and fundraising is quickly changing. In the TechSoup premiere our new #NPLive interactive series of video events, join us to discuss The Future of Fundraising online in the social media matrix on Tuesday, May 24 at 11 a.m. Why Has Fundraising Online Shifted so Quickly? Pacific time.

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Lunch Is on Me and My Cell Phone

NTEN

If you thought you spent money fast in iTunes, wait until you see how you burn through money you never have to see anymore. Paying by mobile is already a done deal in Japan and Europe. Tags: cell phone dan macsai fast company Mobile NPTech NTEN payments Fundraising. Will s/he even remember donating? Are you ready for it?

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