Project Awesome is pretty, well, awesome. The best video makers on YouTube rally and create videos for their favorite charities.    Then they ask their networks to vote the best.  The voting is over, so now we wait. The video above was created by Karen Kavett to promote charity:water and how awesome they are, including their new fundraiser, Waterforward, that is a brilliant networked approach to fundraising and incorporate game mechanics.  (I wrote about it here) Watch the video and you'll see … [Read more...]

Note from Beth: The 3rd annual Minnesota Give to Max Day took place last month.  The campaign has been profiled on this blog since it started.  And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned.  It's become an annual holiday tradition for Beth's Blog. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M in one day by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org On November 16, 2011, more than $13.4 million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. And, a record 47,534 … [Read more...]

How WaterForward works. from charity: water on Vimeo. charity:water continues to break new ground and be an innovator in the online fundraising space.    Its newest online fundraiser,  Waterforward, is based on a simple question:  What if the billion social media users in the world collectively chipped in a few dollars and helped solve the "wicked" problem for the billion people around the world who don't have clean water? I first heard about this unique fundraiser when I interviewed … [Read more...]

"One person can make a difference, and every person should try." ~ John F. Kennedy It's been almost five years since my first foray into social fundraising to raise money from my friends and followers to send a young woman, Leng Sopharath to college.   Ever since,  I've continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia.  I've donated my share of the royalties from my book, The Networked Nonprofit, and feel proud that its been able … [Read more...]

MFGII summary findings Nov 2011   View more presentations from GuideStar USA, Inc. GuideStar and Hope Consulting have released the results of new study, Money for Good II (MFGII). The findings suggest that if nonprofits are more transparent in sharing information about their results online that they could attract more donors. The research found that two-thirds of individuals do not typically research the organizations they donate to compared those that advise donors and foundation … [Read more...]