Dear Causes.com Community, We’re excited to announce that Causes has acquired Votizen, a fellow San Francisco-based tech startup that helps people unlock the power of their social networks for political influence. We’re thrilled to bring together two teams that share a common vision for transforming civic engagement through technology. In the 2012 election cycle, Votizen ...
Last week Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, and David Batstone, founder of Not For Sale, discussed using social media for social good at the Hub in San Francisco (which, by the way, has a great collaborative space for social entrepreneurs in SF and many other cities). I was particularly impressed by something David said about ...
Causes Senior Nonprofit Coordinator, Susan Gordon, was recently featured on NTEN (the Nonprofit Technology Network)’s blog. Planning for the year-end giving season is in full swing throughout the nonprofit sector. In 2009, giving in December alone brought in about 1/3 of the fundraising dollars to nonprofits. And in 2010, online giving is expected to bring ...
Last week, Guidestar released a broad survey of U.S. nonprofit organizations’ financial strength in the first five months of 2010. As you might guess, the report contains some unwelcome news. Many of the 7,000 organizations surveyed reported funding shortfalls, service cutbacks, and layoffs, none of which should surprise anyone who hasn’t been living under a ...
Over the past week I’ve been obsessively checking the daily and overall Giving Challenge leaderboards, as well as many of the participating causes themselves. In doing all of this “informal research,” I’ve been struck by the gap between those causes that seem to have an organizing strategy and those that do not. As the second ...