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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. Twitter uses hashtags.

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5 Questions for Jay Frost

sgEngage

Follow Jay on Twitter at @gordonjayfrost or reach him by email at jay@fundraisinginfo.com. How do you see social networks reshaping traditional donor research or fundraising techniques? We all know, for example, that institutions raise far more money in capital campaigns than in regular annual fundraising drives. Completely!

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Give a Little Bit at the Day of Service

NTEN

Consult Details: Selecting the right database software or host-site to keep track of our constituents; mine that database of information for maximum return from investors; use better on-line fund-raising techniques. How did the Red Cross system work for Haiti? Group #021 - CobbWorks, Inc. John Helton | [link].

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Cupcakes, Veganism and Fundraising: Fat Bottom Bakery and the East Bay Vegan Bake Sale

Have Fun - Do Good

They also produce the East Bay Vegan Bake Sale where they sell baked goods to raise money for charity. CW: For me, veganism is an extension of how I was raised. I was raised in a vegetarian household, and a household that was very concerned with living a good life in the world, and lessening suffering in every way that you can.