Wired Campus: Gift Will Help Put Holocaust Video Testimonies on the Internet - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: Gift Will Help Put Holocaust Video Testimonies on the Internet - Chronicle.com: "Gift Will Help Put Holocaust Video Testimonies on the Internet

A $2-million donation to the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education will assist the organization in beginning work to store video testimonies of Holocaust survivors in a searchable Internet archive that will be available to the public, the foundation announced today."

Red Cross Disaster Relief Tools » home

Red Cross Disaster Relief Tools » home: "Red Cross Social Media Tools You Can Use
$100 million fundraising campaign

This wiki's purpose is to gather all possible online fundraising tools together so it's very easy for anyone to access and use them to help the Red Cross. Please add your own creations as you see fit!


September 10, 2008
The Red Cross today launched a $100 million fundraising campaign for the Disaster Relief Fund.

We'll need the help of our social media faithful to get the money raised.

This space is dedicated to offering you tools you can use to help your own online fans, friends and family join the Disaster Relief Team."

Wired Campus: New Social Network Hopes to Catalog All Researchers and Their Interests - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: New Social Network Hopes to Catalog All Researchers and Their Interests - Chronicle.com: "Richard Price, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s All Souls College, is blasting an e-mail plea to every academic mailing list and blog that he can find asking academics to sign up for his new online directory of researchers worldwide. His goal is to create an online guide to who’s doing what, and where, so scholars can share information and collaborate."

A Microsoft Refugee Becomes a Social Technologist - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

A Microsoft Refugee Becomes a Social Technologist - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Poole, 47, plans to spend the next few months figuring out where he would like to work next — most likely, he said, for a non-profit foundation or agency, not in the technology industry.

But he is joining NComputing as its co-chairman and “global ambassador,” the company said Tuesday."

Givvy Launches Online Tools for Getting Organized About Your Charitable Giving | Xconomy

Givvy Launches Online Tools for Getting Organized About Your Charitable Giving | Xconomy: "Givvy Launches Online Tools for Getting Organized About Your Charitable Giving
Rebecca Zacks 9/12/08

Back in February I tried a million different ways to get Givvy founder John Treadway to tell me exactly what is was his months-old startup was building. The best I could get out of him at the time was something about online tools that give individual donors “more control and more empowerment over why, when, where, and how they give to charities,” and a lot of intriguing talk about the idea that people would feel better and give more if they were more able to ensure that their charitable spending aligned with their beliefs and priorities."

Jhai PC: Low-cost computer links villages to the Web | csmonitor.com

Jhai PC: Low-cost computer links villages to the Web | csmonitor.com: "n the small Hmong village of Phonsavad in Laos, three hours upriver from the nearest road, the Jhai PC is a portal to another world. Built to withstand monsoon rains and extreme temperatures and linked to the Web by satellite, the tough computer brings villagers weather reports, current prices for their rice crops and weavings, and contact with relatives living abroad.

It comes with a communications suite that both literate and illiterate villagers can use and will eventually host a videoconference kit for checkups with doctors. The computer costs about $200 and can charge its battery from a generator powered by pedaling a stationary bike."

Internet Chats, Pizza and Philanthropy « Minnesota Council on Foundations Blog - Philanthropy Potluck

From Philanthropy Potluck

Internet Chats, Pizza and Philanthropy « Minnesota Council on Foundations Blog - Philanthropy Potluck: "Philanthropists young and old — no matter how you like to communicate — take heart! Advocates of philanthropy are embracing electronic communications, but they haven’t forgotten the joy of sitting down for a face-to-face conversation over a slice of pizza.

On an 8/22 TPT segment on “Minnesota’s Philanthropic Tradition,” Almanac’s Mary Lahammer interviewed philanthropist and former RBC Dain Rauscher CEO Dick McFarland."

Nonprofit donors have more options for giving - Fort Worth Business Press

Nonprofit donors have more options for giving - Fort Worth Business Press: "While these may be traditional ways to drum up money for a cause, such methods tend to be labor intensive for both the charity and for donors, said Aly Burroughs, the corporate marketing director for the American Heart Association’s Start! Tarrant County Heart Walk.

To save time and precious dollars, nonprofits are using technology to tug on the heart and purse strings of donors."

AFP: MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts

AFP: MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts: "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) — In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spread news on hurricanes through users of the online social network.

As Hurricane Gustav blasted the US Gulf Coast early this week, DHS officials telephoned MySpace executives to 'fast-track' a project to build a disaster alert system that capitalizes on the hot Internet social networking trend."

A Social Network Where You Can Be Too Social - washingtonpost.com

A Social Network Where You Can Be Too Social - washingtonpost.com: "For many, Facebook has become an indispensable tool for managing their social lives. But all the friending, messaging and poking on the online social network has created a hazard: using it too much.

Elizabeth Coe found out after she sent 100 friends and professional acquaintances a link to her company's Web site. She got booted."

Fund Raising at the Speed of Twitter - Philanthropy.com

Fund Raising at the Speed of Twitter - Philanthropy.com: "Fund Raising at the Speed of Twitter

Twitter — mini-blogs updated via text message — can raise money fast from the technologically savvy.

Beth Kanter and 250 bloggers, podcasters, and other technology enthusiasts at a Seattle conference raised $2,657 to pay for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia, to go to college this year, using the new technology — and by passing the hat at the session — in just 90 minutes. By the end of the conference, the total had climbed to $3,77"

newsobserver.com | Modern spin on church giving

newsobserver.com | Modern spin on church giving: "Tim Funk, The Charlotte Observer Comment on this story
A new Web site based in Charlotte will steer money to houses of worship in the Carolinas as many pastors worry that the faltering economy is sinking their budgets.

FaithRewards.com, will give online shoppers and business owners a chance to funnel a percentage of their spending and advertising dollars to their church, synagogue, mosque or temple."

Students Flock to Microfinance to Learn Real World Skills - NAM

Students Flock to Microfinance to Learn Real World Skills - NAM: "PALO ALTO, Calif. – Idealistic students who wanted to give back to their community used to volunteer with food drives, homeless shelters or community centers. Charity was once very localized. Now, a co-ed can go online and donate to a poor entrepreneur in Nicaragua with the click of a mouse.

The Internet has spiked awareness of world economic problems and encouraged many young people to take on a new form of service – microfinance. Throughout the developing world, microfinance gives financial services to low-income entrepreneurs. Even loans of less than $100 have allowed entrepreneurs to create or improve existing businesses. It also provides savings accounts and insurance for the poor to ensure financial stability."

IT nonprofit looks into operating in Uganda - Network World

IT nonprofit looks into operating in Uganda - Network World: "Close the Gap, an international nonprofit aimed at reducing the digital divide, has u"

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