This week, Causes released a fundraising tab for Facebook Pages, which is great news for nonprofits that have been investing in Facebook but struggling to find the right fundraising solution for that audience.
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How to create love online: To Mama with Love
Honor your mom by supporting schools & women’s shelters abroad With Mother’s Day just around the corner, let’s give props to To Mama With Love, a collaborative online art project that honors moms across the globe and raises funds to invest in remarkable women who are transforming our world. An initiative of Epic Change, the […]
Outtakes from Sustainatopia
And an interesting debate: Should journalism offer calls to action? This week I spent four days at Sustainatopia, the Caribbean-flavored conference in Miami that brought social entrepreneurs, VCs, artisans, celebrities, media activists and a fair number of Miami’s beautiful people together for a celebration of sustainability — and a call to arms over what […]
Ideavibes: A new way to do crowdsourcing & crowdfunding campaigns
Engage4change contest asks SF residents for ideas to improve housing & transportation Editor’s note: A start-up called Ideavibes has created a crowd-engagement platform that can be purchased by nonprofits, government agencies or businesses to do their own crowd engagement or crowd funding. It’s one of the more interesting companies we spotted at Web 2.0 […]
FrontlineSMS founder wins award for software in public interest
Ken Banks accepting the award at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. (Photo by JD Lasica) Socialbrite partner Ken Banks honored at nonprofit conference Guest post by Florence Scialom Community Co-Ordinator, FrontlineSMS Ken Banks, the founder of FrontlineSMS and a partner in Socialbrite, has been widely recognized for his work in giving grassroots groups the world over […]