Real Time Charitable Giving | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Real Time Charitable Giving | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project: Yet while their initial contribution often involved little deliberation, 43% of these donors encouraged their friends or family members to give to the campaign as well. In addition, a majority of those surveyed (56%) have continued to give to more recent disaster relief efforts—such as the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan—using their mobile phones.

An Alternative to .org? Say Hello to .ngo - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

An Alternative to .org? Say Hello to .ngo - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: But now the key organization that manages nonprofit addresses wants charities to adopt the suffix .ngo. It also wants to implement a process that vets organizations to ensure that anybody with the .ngo address is a legitimate nonprofit, saying that now it’s too easy to commit fraud using a .org address because anyone can create one.

The effort to find an alternative to .org comes at a time of big changes in the way Internet addresses are patrolled.

Florida State University to Launch 'The Great Give'

Florida State University to Launch 'The Great Give': Tallahassee, FL -- Florida State University will launch its first exclusively virtual campaign starting at 9 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 23. The Great Give is a 36-hour online giving campaign that will involve the entire campus and community in supporting FSU.

The Great Give will run through Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 9 p.m., with a fundraising goal of $161,000. These dates and amounts were chosen in honor of the 161st anniversary of the Jan. 24, 1851, signing of the charter to create the academic institution that would become Florida State University.

Your Tech Game Plan for 2012

Your Tech Game Plan for 2012: ust as a good coach can't lead his or her team to victory without a plan, neither should you leave your organization's technology decisions to chance. Planning is the best way to avoid mishaps, wasted time, and misspent money.

Of course, this is easier said than done, and the planning process often brings up tough questions. Wisdom holds that those tough questions are good — just the thing to think through to get your priorities straight. But that doesn't make the questions any less difficult.