Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Students Connect with Community by Providing Tech Help

Students Connect with Community by Providing Tech Help: The founder of Project SPARTA, Raulston seeks opportunities to match unmet technological needs in the Tallahassee nonprofit community with students eager to gain practical experience working in the information technology field.

“The great thing about SPARTA is that it provides students the ability to try multiple career opportunities until they find that one thing that ignites their passion,” Raulston said.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Study Shows Online Giving Has Become Popular Among Donors 60 or Older - Press - AFP

Study Shows Online Giving Has Become Popular Among Donors 60 or Older - Press - AFP: Study Shows Online Giving Has Become Popular Among Donors 60 or Older

(Nov. 13, 2011) Online giving has become a viable option for donors who are 60 years of age or older, according to a recent online study of donors who had given by any method conducted by Campbell Rinker on behalf of Dunham Company.

Six Social Media Trends for 2012 - David Armano - Harvard Business Review

Six Social Media Trends for 2012 - David Armano - Harvard Business Review

Monday, December 12, 2011

Irreverent atheists crowdsource charitable giving | Reuters: Doctors without Borders (DWB), also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, gets about 4,000 hits on its U.S. website on an average Sunday. Last Sunday that number ballooned to 50,000 as a horde of redditors, subscribers to the social media site reddit.com, thundered across the DWB homepage.
Twitter's Redesign Offers New Options to Nonprofits - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Twitter’s Redesign Offers New Options to Nonprofits

December 9, 2011, 2:26 pm

By Cody Switzer

Twitter has unveiled a redesign to its site and tools that offers many new features that could affect nonprofits, including the addition of special pages that allow organizations and companies a chance to promote themselves.

New technology will make philanthropists of us all, says white paper | Philanthropy UK

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New technology will make philanthropists of us all, says white paper | Philanthropy UK: A white paper suggests that the use of mobile technology could revolutionise the way the arts are funded with more people becoming ‘philanthropists’. The increasing use of smartphones and social media channels provide a powerful platform to engage a wider range of donors, according to consultancy firm Panlogic’s paper entitled entitled We’re all philanthropists now.