Give It Forward with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee - Community Foundation

Give It Forward with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee - Community Foundation: December 7, 2011 through January 5, 2012, we’re asking you to remember an experience of charitable or personal giving that was meaningful, joyful or touching. Or, just tell us what giving means to you.

Share your story on our Facebook page for the chance to win a Community Foundation Giving Card, which can be redeemed to support any charity you choose. Every Thursday (Dec. 15, Dec. 22, Dec. 29, Jan. 5) we'll draw randomly from everyone who submitted a story, for a Giving Card ($25 card week 1, $50 card week 2, $75 card week 3, $150 card week 4).

Charitable giving goes high tech - Business - The Boston Globe

Charitable giving goes high tech - Business - The Boston Globe: But a handful of local tech companies and small start-ups are tapping into a burgeoning appetite on the Web for doing good. They run Internet auctions for causes, use Twitter and Facebook to spur giving, and find pro bono help for Massachusetts nonprofits and social enterprises. With the reach and ease of the Web, anyone in the world can potentially fund a playground project in Roxbury or instantly donate to the American Red Cross when a disaster hits.

Charity encourages tourists to ‘pack with a purpose’ - thestar.com

Charity encourages tourists to ‘pack with a purpose’ - thestar.com: She returned home with a personal mandate and the name of her Web site, packforapurpose.com

Her idea is simple: travelers put aside roughly five pounds of their allotted luggage weight to pack items needed in the destination they plan to visit. How do they know what’s needed? That’s where packforapurpose.com comes in. T

How Haiti's Earthquake Inspired LinkedIn's Skill-based Volunteer Marketplace | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

How Haiti's Earthquake Inspired LinkedIn's Skill-based Volunteer Marketplace | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation: It’s not just for landing your next job anymore. In the event of a natural disaster, LinkedIn has a new service--LinkedIn For Good--that will connect people in need with people with the skills to help them. It’s all part of their desire to increase volunteerism, and create social change with human capital.

The South Jersey Sun - Goodwill uses technology to help donors in Mt Laurel

The South Jersey Sun - Goodwill uses technology to help donors in Mt Laurel: To make things more convenient, Goodwill Industries, of Southern NJ & Philadelphia has installed computerized donation kiosks at all of its donation centers and unveiled state-of-the-art iDonate technology that enables donors to track their giving online, 24-7.

CharityVillage� Research: Seven Social Fundraising Stories for the Holidays

CharityVillage� Research: Seven Social Fundraising Stories for the Holidays: It's an understatement to say that the end of the year is a busy time for the charitable sector. Many charities and nonprofits can anticipate raising a third of their annual overall online donations in December alone. It shouldn't surprise you to hear that the last two days of the year are when most organizations also experience the heaviest volume of online giving.

In the crowded crush of direct mail, television appeals, print campaigns and email blasts, it's not always easy for a digital campaign to stand out. Some organizations have stepped up to the challenge and are reaching out to online communities. Be inspired by these seven stories of holiday fundraising on web and social channels!

Silicon Valley Scion Aims to 'Reboot' Tech-Sector Giving - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Silicon Valley Scion Aims to 'Reboot' Tech-Sector Giving - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Silicon Valley Scion Aims to ‘Reboot’ Tech-Sector Giving

December 19, 2011, 10:24 am

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, a child of Silicon Valley who married one of its most successful entrepreneurs, is leading efforts to reshape the high-tech sector as a major philanthropic force, The New York Times writes in a profile

The wife of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and the daughter of John Arrillaga Sr., the property developer credited with transforming a patch of California farmland into the world’s technology hub, Ms. Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches a class in strategic philanthropy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has advised Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and Hewlett-Packard chief Meg Whitman on giving.

Japan Tops the List of Fastest-Rising Charitable Google Searches in 2011 - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Japan Tops the List of Fastest-Rising Charitable Google Searches in 2011 - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Google this week released its annual Zeitgeist report, which tallies the 10 most popular and fastest-rising searches in a wide range of categories. To come up with the fastest-rising terms, it compared searches this year to those in 2010.

In Its Fifth Year, an 'Awesome' Video Challenge to Aid Charities - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

In Its Fifth Year, an 'Awesome' Video Challenge to Aid Charities - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: The brothers, who are professional video bloggers (John Green is also a novelist and Hank Green is also a musician and an environmental writer) raised more than $100,000 for charities during the event last year and attracted 10 million views to videos about charities. Their campaign became the most popular topic on YouTube for 36 hours.

The Project for Awesome has similar goals for the 2011 campaign.

“It’s supposed to be fun,” John Green says. “All of my fulfilling experiences with philanthropy have been fun.”