Yesterday Network for Good and TrueSense Marketing released a landmark study of the online giving experience that offers important findings for nonprofits, donation portals, social networks and individual donors. The study analyzed the $381 million that individuals have donated to 66,000 charities through the Network for Good platform over the past seven years. It […]
Nonprofits
How to optimize your nonprofit’s donation button
Here’s an improvement that you can make to your website that only takes a few minutes but will have a lasting impact on the amount of donations you receive through your site.
VolunteerSpot: Tips to spur offline actions
I‘ve been impressed every time I’ve stopped by VolunteerSpot, a tool that makes it easy for anyone to coordinate and organize volunteers. At BlogWorld Expo, I got to chat with founder Karen Bantuveris shortly after she appeared on a panel about fueling real world action through social media. “Just by making it easier to volunteer,” […]
Use video to get to heart of your organization’s story
Storytellers for Good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. A chat with the founder of Storytellers for Good Of all the people I’ve met this year, probably the most fascinating encounter I’ve had was the few minutes I spent with Cara Jones, founder of Storytellers for Good (tagline: “Promoting goodness, inspiring greatness”). A former broadcast […]
Jumo holds promise for social good sector
Note from Beth Kanter: Jumo, the long anticipated social network site for social change, launched this week. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 […]