Ifirst met Mark Horvath on Twitter and later face-to-face last December during a trip down the California coast during the holidays. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. A free agent is a person — many times a GenY, but not always — who is a passionate about a social cause but […]
Archives for September 2010
Catchafire: Connecting nonprofits & professionals
Jane Slusser: Connecting nonprofits & volunteers from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp held Aug. 21 in Berkeley, Calif., I met tons of cool people, but none were more interesting than Jane Slusser, chief service officer of Catchafire. Catchafire is a new online marketplace that connects professionals who want to volunteer […]
Does your nonprofit have a Dilbert social media policy?
As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the pleasure to do a number of workshops in the area. Monday evening I had the pleasure of presenting a Networked Nonprofit mini-workshop for a group of about 50 local nonprofits and government […]
7 ways for nonprofits to use mobile phones to raise funds
Tips for putting together a well-planned mobile fundraising strategy Guest post by Ben Rigby Co-founder, The Extraordinaries If you’re like most people working at a nonprofit, you probably had a “Holy Mobile!” moment in January 2010 when an outpouring of donations followed the devastating Haiti quake. This, you expected. But what you may not have […]
How to claim your nonprofit’s Facebook Places Page
If you’re interested in using Facebook Places to engage with your local constituents, you need to first claim your Facebook Places Page. (Didn’t know you had one, did you?) The benefit of claiming your Facebook Places Page is having the ability to publish content to those who have checked into your Place, which Facebook recently […]