Foundation Support Booms for Web, Mobile Media Projects | Idea Lab | PBS

Foundation Support Booms for Web, Mobile Media Projects | Idea Lab | PBS: long with the changing media landscape, foundations are increasingly supporting media-related efforts in multiple disciplines — with a bigger push into digital platforms.

According to a new report by the Foundation Center, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation, $1.86 billion was awarded in media-related grants from 2009 to 2011.

Foundations and Social Media Infographic | Glasspockets

Foundations and Social Media Infographic | Glasspockets: Infographic: What’s Trending With Foundations and Social Media

Museum launches social media fund-raising campaign -

Museum launches social media fund-raising campaign -: The Edwardsville Children’s Museum is trying to raise $100,000 by the end of the year through a social media campaign, #SaveOurMuseum.

Fishing for Funds

Fishing for Funds: This year we ventured into crowdfunding, another nontraditional model that enables people to share their causes and raise small amounts of money from a large number of people. The process of crowdfunding basically turns every person into a philanthropist resulting in a greater and broader engagement in the giving process.

Through a partnership with Indiegogo, the fast-growing crowdfunding platform, we developed a designated page on which our members are able to feature their ventures at discounted platform fees. Select projects receive matching funds of up $5,000, thus ensuring that potential donors know that we put our faith and money in our members’ initiatives.

8 Ways to Find Your Nonprofit’s Perfect Holiday Email Subject Line - Clairification

8 Ways to Find Your Nonprofit’s Perfect Holiday Email Subject Line - Clairification:Guess what? Your nonprofit has the perfect gift! All you have to do is sell it. Here’s how…

Borrow a page from the retail marketers who spend big bucks on market research. In 15 Subject Line Examples for Your Holiday Email Marketing Ryan Pinkham provides some free inspiration that applies as well to nonprofits as to retail businesses. Here are 8 examples I particularly like, with some thoughts about how you can adapt hem to boost your year-end fundraising:

Twitter’s New App Refines DM Experience With Suggested Users, Introduces New Interface Experiments | TechCrunch

Twitter’s New App Refines DM Experience With Suggested Users, Introduces New Interface Experiments | TechCrunch: Twitter is in full on experimentation mode with its latest app update. We’ve talked before about how Twitter is using data to push out big changes to small amounts of people and then make judgment calls about whether to implement those updates on a larger scale.

Foundation Center - Press Release - Foundation Center Puts Improved Transparency Resources Into the Hands of Foundations

PRESS RELEASE

Foundation Center - Press Release - Foundation Center Puts Improved Transparency Resources Into the Hands of Foundations: Foundation Center Puts Improved Transparency Resources
Into the Hands of Foundations
Redesigned Glasspockets Web Site Makes Openness Easier Than Ever

New York, NY — November 14, 2013. The Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, has launched a new version of glasspockets.org, a web site that is home to the organization’s efforts to encourage greater foundation transparency.

“Created in the wake of McCarthy era congressional inquiries into the activities of foundations, the Foundation Center has always been about transparency,” said its president, Bradford K. Smith. “That legacy continues today, and now more than ever Glasspockets provides the data, resources, and action steps foundations need in order to be more transparent in an era of 24/7 digital information.”

The Top 4 Nonprofit Social Media Campaigns of 2013 (And What You Can Learn)

The Top 4 Nonprofit Social Media Campaigns of 2013 (And What You Can Learn): NPOs never stood a chance on social media. People aren’t there for us, they’re there to interact with their friends.

Don’t act like those thoughts never crossed your mind. Sometimes social media can be discouraging. “How do we get more interaction?” “How do we make them care?”