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Like millions of Americans, I’ve been looking for ways in which to get more involved in worthy community efforts. The traditional ways in which you can volunteer and gave back at the community — say, working in a soup kitchen or signing up for AmeriCorps — just expanded exponentially with the recent rollout of the […]
philanthropy
99 foundations that actively use Twitter
Beth Kanter this week cited 10 examples of thought leadership from foundations: Share history (Detroit Foundation) Talk vision and mission (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) Share important research (Kauffman Foundation) (Hewlett Foundation) Retweet useful links shared by colleagues (Greater Cincinnati Foundation) Recruit job candidates (MacArthur Foundation) Important program deadlines (Hawaii Community Foundation) Reveal field insights (Columbus […]
Charity 2.0: How to address scaling and cause fatigue?
Photo by Seerjith CNET’s Caroline McCarthy published an article called “Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0” based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks. (Disclaimer: I am on an advisory group for Think Social and I’m a huge fan […]
All about Geeks for Good
All about the Summer of Social Good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Did you know that this is the first Global Geek Week (Aug. 2-8)? It’s a way to promote the use of social media for the social good — which also happens to be identical to the mission of Socialbrite.org. On Twitter, go to […]
Incentives for doing good
I had a riveting lunch this week with Jack Herrick (above), a serial entrepreneur who sold eHow (How to Do Just About Everything!) three years ago and, shortly before that, founded wikiHow (Building the World’s How-to Manual), where he’s now CEO of that social-good company. Today’s top wikiHow article: How to Moonwalk Like Michael Jackson. […]
