Tuesday, April 19, 2011

How Non-Profits Can Maximize Engagement on Facebook

How Non-Profits Can Maximize Engagement on Facebook: "Best practices are pretty variable when it comes to social media. This is especially true with Facebook, which switches up its appearance, services and features every few months. We did our best to put together some of the best approaches for non-profits, with some serious help from three social media mavericks at top causes."

Entrepreneur's Corner: Long Tail Grants - The Wharton Journal

Entrepreneur's Corner: Long Tail Grants - The Wharton Journal: "Please describe Long Tail Grants and the experiences that led you to start the company.

LongTail Grants is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for themselves, so they can start their own socially beneficial projects. As a crowdfunding model that focuses on students, LongTail can be thought of as a 'Kickstarter.com' for Youth Community Engagement. A market need exists for a platform that enables motivated individuals to raise funds and awareness for the small projects that are not covered by larger nonprofit organizations."

Monday, April 18, 2011

Online charity donation portal raises over S$5m - Channel NewsAsia

Online charity donation portal raises over S$5m - Channel NewsAsia: "SINGAPORE: In just over a year, Singapore's largest charity donation portal, SG Gives, has raised raised over S$5 million online for Singapore charities.

Most of the donations went to the social service sector (63 per cent) and the health sector (36 per cent)."