Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009
Photo by Borman818 I usually don't write end of year roundups until those quiet last days of the year, but if Leave09Behind  gets legs, that might be next week!   But I'm a member of the Social Media Advisory Board for SmartBrief, Inc, a terrific daily summary of social media insights and they asked me to do a roundup post for this week. Over the

Happy Tweetsgiving!
Tweetsgiving is 48-hour event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups.    This two-day event, scheduled for November 24-26, will also invite people to donate to Epic Change.  And there are a lot more ways to participate.This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding

Multi-Channel Fundraising Campaigns: Storytelling Is Key
Planned Parenthood Online OverviewView more presentations from Big Duck. This morning on Twitter, Farra, from Big Duck, pointed me to a guest blog post titled "What Story Are You Telling Your Donors, Where Are You Telling It?"  The above presentation comes from the NYC chapter of NTE

Help Raise $1 Million for LiveStrong By Following @DrewfromTV
Carey, who is on Twitter with the handle  "DrewFromTV," offered $100,000 for the Twitter name "@drew," which is was offered for sale by Drew Olanoff, of "Blame Drew's Cancer," who was willing to auction off his Twitter handle to raise money for cancer research. Drew Carey upped his bid for the Twitter name @drew to $1 million, announcing that he would pay $1 million for the account if he could get a million Twi

Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: MomsRising: What We Can Learn from New Online Models
As part of our ongoing research project into the future of membership-based advocacy organizations, we’ve been talking to folks from “new” as well as “older” groups focused on issue-organizing. We’re hoping to find out how the nature of civic engagement and mobilization is changing – along with the business models needed to support this kind of work. Our hypothesis is that new technologies such as Web 2.0 are accelerating change in the sector, and that the nature of how we support causes will shift – from writing checks to bein