Is your organization leveraging the power of the crowd? Last month I presented at the UK’s National Council for Voluntary Organisations’ Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity, with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is […]
Fundraising
Fundraising with social media — the right way
Wildlife Direct harnesses social networks to ‘secure a future for wildlife’ Last week I wrote about a pair of surveys that looked at social media and nonprofits. One came to the conclusion that social media was a waste of time; the other talked about strategic implications on how to be successful. If you want to […]
8 tips for raising funds online
At BlogWorld Expo, tools and strategies for nonprofits The first Causes/Activism track at the just-ended Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas drew some 1,500 participants — a promising showing by the nonprofit community. I moderated the Tools for Nonprofit Organizations panel, with panelists Judy Chang of Paypal, Justin Perkins of Care2, David Levy of SocialVibe, James […]
Bloggers: Please come through again for DonorsChoose
Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving When you think of organizations and nonprofits that have made effective use of Web 2.0 technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. And October is once again the month when bloggers step up to the […]
Cause marketing with celebrities, social media
Marketing for charitable causes from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The smartest guy I know in the cause marketing space is Chris Noble, CEO of 8-year-old Kompolt. With the help of a grant from eBay, Chris’s team at Kompolt is organizing the nonprofit track Thursday at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. Some $6 billion was raised […]