Friday, May 23, 2014

Is Crowdfunding for Social Change More Than Hype? | Social Velocity

Is Crowdfunding for Social Change More Than Hype? | Social Velocity: Crowdfunding is quickly becoming the new shiny object in the world of social change. From Giving Days, to new giving platforms, to lots of articles and studies (here and here to start), it seems that crowdfunding is everywhere lately.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Dyn’s Hackademy provides mobile apps for NH nonprofits | New Hampshire Business

Dyn’s Hackademy provides mobile apps for NH nonprofits | New Hampshire Business: MANCHESTER — Twenty potential tech company founders, now attending schools in New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, assembled last weekend at Dyn to develop mobile apps for six New Hampshire nonprofits.

To make it interesting, the attendees didn’t know when they arrived Thursday for the invitation-only four-day event that developing the apps would be their mission.

Online Fundraising Goes Mainstream - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Online Fundraising Goes Mainstream - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: While online giving continues to gain steam, it still accounts for a very small portion of the money charities rely on. Among the 76 nonprofits that provided both their online and overall giving totals for 2013, the median share of online gifts is just 2 percent of all donations from private sources.

The results track closely with other recent studies of online giving:

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

26 Free (or Free-to-Try) Content Curation Tools - SEW

26 Free (or Free-to-Try) Content Curation Tools - SEW: Content curation offers a nearly limitless method of fueling your inbound marketing efforts. Unearthing and sharing the quality content of others allows you provide your audience fresh content on a regular basis to serve any interest, industry, or market.

What's more, sharing and celebrating the work of others helps get you on their radar and can forge valuable, long-term relationships with the content authors.

To help you curate, here's a list of 26 tools you can use to find, aggregate and share your content with the world,

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Social Ad Revenues to Reach $15 Billion by 2018 - Direct Marketing News

Social Ad Revenues to Reach $15 Billion by 2018 - Direct Marketing News: Social media ad revenues will grow to $15 billion by 2018, a 24% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) increase from 2013's $5.1 billion, according to local media and advertising consulting company BIA/Kelsey.

4 must-know social media principles for fundraising | Connecting Up

4 must-know social media principles for fundraising | Connecting Up: Competition for the fundraising dollar is tough. Not a day goes by where people aren’t asked for money from a not-for-profit whether it’s at the supermarket, by phone, in their inbox or their letterbox. So how do you ‘make the ask’ on social media in a way that engages and encourages people to support your cause?

Firstly, there are some foundation principles that apply on social media, that are particularly important when it comes to fundraising:

Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup

Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim - The TechSoup Blog - Community - TechSoup: Restless Knowledge Sharing

One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. Jason Shim is classic in this regard.

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations.
He has served on multiple charity boards.
He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada, and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Online Fundraising Goes Mainstream - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Online Fundraising Goes Mainstream - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Online giving is still growing, but triple-digit annual increases are a thing of the past.

Internet fundraising grew by roughly 13 percent last year, according to a survey of 100 of the largest nonprofits conducted by The Chronicle.