Online Giving in Holiday Season Grows 17% Over 2012 - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Online Giving in Holiday Season Grows 17% Over 2012 - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Online Giving in Holiday Season Grows 17% Over 2012

By Raymund Flandez

Online donations from November 1 to mid-December are 17 percent higher than in the same period last year, according to Network for Good, a nonprofit that processes gifts made electronically.

Donations rose to $37.4-million, up from $31.9-million during the same period in 2012.

Google's charity donation app comes to iOS for the holidays

Google's charity donation app comes to iOS for the holidays: It's the season of giving, and this year, iOS users will be entitled to share the love with Google's One Today app

Belfast Nonprofit Brings Affordable Technology to Mainers | Bangor, Maine News, Sports, and Weather - WABI TV5

Belfast Nonprofit Brings Affordable Technology to Mainers | Bangor, Maine News, Sports, and Weather - WABI TV5: We’ve helped almost 10,000 families so far in the 12 years,” said E-Commerce Manager Calvin Robbins.

Jodi Martin started the nonprofit, Information Technology Exchange, with her husband.

“We have two programs. One is PC’s for Maine and one is PC Medix. PC’s for Maine is our nonprofit. We are a computer literacy project, 501 C3, and we help get computers into the hands of underprivileged, schools, non profits, and libraries,” said Martin, the executive director.

VT Nonprofits Get Website Upgrades | Common Good Vermont Blog

VT Nonprofits Get Website Upgrades | Common Good Vermont Blog: Managing a website no longer needs to be intimidating for a nonprofit of any size. Content management systems, such as WordPress, make adding or editing content as simple as writing an email or drafting a Word document.

Since the start of the project, the Vermont Digital Economy Project has helped nearly twenty nonprofits to revamp their web presence in a way that empowers them to control their own messaging. In the White River Valley alon

HUGE! Facebook Rolling Out "Donate Now" Feature for Nonprofits

From John Haydon

HUGE! Facebook Rolling Out "Donate Now" Feature for Nonprofits: Facebook is rolling out a new feature that lets Facebook users make donations directly to their favorite nonprofits via the News Feed.

This donate now feature will appear beside posts in the News Feed and at the top of non-profit Facebook Pages participating in the program.

Digital civil society emerging � Philanthropy North Carolina

Digital civil society emerging � Philanthropy North Carolina: Digital technology and data are driving the use of private resources for public good, and the shape of that emerging social economy will depend on how nonprofits, philanthropies, business and government address critical questions about the ways that data are collected, shared and used, a new report says.

“How we use private data for public benefit will be a definitional issue for our future social economies in Europe, the United States, and across the globe,” says Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013.