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Welcome to all the visitors from Mashable! We were thrilled to be featured in Melissa Rowley‘s article, 4 Social Good Trends of 2009. For first-timers, we thought now would be a good time to highlight some of our favorite posts on Socialbrite since our launch earlier this year: Some of our favorite causes • Tweet […]
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Giving to charity goes local
Lately I’ve been noticing a social media spin on making charitable donations in your community, region or state. Here are three recent examples. I Live Here, I Give Here The site I Live Here, I Give Here is designed to draw attention to giving to local nonprofits in Austin, Texas. According to the site: “Austin […]
Forge: Helping to revitalize African communities
Refugees revitalizing African communities from JD Lasica on Vimeo. One of the most impressive people I met at the recent Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco was Kjersten Erickson, executive director of Forge, who founded the international NGO six years ago when she was a junior at Stanford University. Forge works with refugees and […]
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 […]
An inventive cause campaign to fight malaria
A cause campaign to fight malaria from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Causeitsmybirthday.com raises $16,000, effort continues through Saturday Socialbrite’s own Sloane Berrent has been a bit busy of late. Fresh off a three-month stay in the rural Philippines doing field work as a Kiva fellow, she and her friend Doug Campbell of Mindshare launched Causeitsmybirthday, […]
