San Francisco seeks Hellman’s philanthropic successors | Dan Schreiber | Local | San Francisco Examiner

San Francisco seeks Hellman’s philanthropic successors | Dan Schreiber | Local | San Francisco Examiner: The death of San Francisco philanthropist Warren Hellman was felt across The City by the organizations he helped and the people who benefited from his generosity.

Big Give to review match fund after high demand crashed site - Civil Society - Fundraising - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits

Big Give to review match fund after high demand crashed site - Civil Society - Fundraising - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits: The Big Give is reviewing last December’s match fund challenge, which raised more than �11.5m, after unprecedented levels of demand forced the challenge to be postponed for a day.

The Big Give is today contacting the charities that participated in the challenge, which requires them to secure match funding from their own major donors and trustees, to invite them to air their concerns in a review of the challenge which is due to be held in two weeks.

Did You Hear The One About... - TheNonProfitTimes

Did You Hear The One About... - TheNonProfitTimes: The winners of the first annual NP LOL People's Choice Awards have been chosen. People from across the United States, Canada and Australia went online in December to pick the funniest story and animation of 2011 from the NP Humour Blog.

How Much Money is Raised through Online Giving? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a Blackbaud Blog

How Much Money is Raised through Online Giving? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a Blackbaud Blog: One of the most common questions that I get is how much money is raised through online giving. The answer leads into plenty more questions about who, what, when, when, and why online fundraising continues to grow. The good news is that we can now answer most of these questions.

Here are some important questions, answers, facts and figures about online giving:

Celebrities Competing Online For Donors - TheNonProfitTimes

Celebrities Competing Online For Donors - TheNonProfitTimes: A dozen celebrities representing as many charities have one month to raise as much money as they can with an ultimate prize of winning $25,000. But the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, launched by Crowdrise and Mozilla, isn’t limited to the 12 celebrities.

Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the open source web browser Firefox, started each celebrity-charity team off with a $5,000 donation.

80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a Blackbaud Blog

80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a Blackbaud Blog: Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. This time I collected all of the nonprofit emails that I was sent between December 15, 2011 and January 1, 2012. Here’s what I discovered after going through all the email messages.

eJP Launches iPad Optimized Version | eJewish Philanthropy: Your Jewish Philanthropy Resource

eJP Launches iPad Optimized Version | eJewish Philanthropy: Your Jewish Philanthropy Resource: With the aim of increasing choices, and providing an improved visitor experience, eJewish Philanthropy today launched an iPad specific-version of their website. Built on the same framework as eJP‘s popular touch mobile version, this is not an app, but rather a fast-loading, smooth display designed specifically for iPad reading. Utilizing native touch and scrolling features familiar to all iPad users, this option is based on the latest technologies available, including HTML5, CSS3 and advanced JavaScript.

Save the .NGO Domain for�Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media -

Save the .NGO Domain for�Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media -: If you work at a nonprofit, serve on a board of a nonprofit, or have nonprofit clients, you need to hear about this. Next year, the Internet is opening up to allow for thousands of new Internet extensions. Companies, individuals and organizations can register almost anything behind the primary Internet address. (Think .cocacola, .party, .anything).

11 Tips for Gathering Content to Share on Twitter - Engage365

11 Tips for Gathering Content to Share on Twitter - Engage365: Information is gold in social media. Those who share quality information get noticed. Those who create quality content become leaders. It could conceivably be argued that on Twitter sharing links to quality information is the native tongue.