Showing all posts for: nonprofits

Government shutdown ignites mustachioed social media competition

Causes has been closely following how the government shutdown in Minnesota has affected state sponsored nonprofits. We were thrilled to discover that the Conservation Corps created an innovative project/contest on Causes. After seeing their project we asked Carissa Butler, Recruitment Coordinator at the Conservation Corps Minnesota and Iowa, to write this guest blog post.  Around the Conservation ...

Causes Launches New Flagship Communities

Over the past four years Causes has grown into a tremendous and vibrant platform of over 160 million installed users, 500,000 cause communities, and over 17,000 nonprofit partners. With all this activity it is easy to lose track of why we got into this business, to help people connect and support the causes and nonprofits ...

Do your donors want you to use social media?

In this week’s must reads I am excited to kick off the summer with some insights into resource investment in social media and an unexpected upside of social media oversharing for nonprofits. The disconnect between what donors want and want nonprofits think they want Nonprofits that make the decision to invest in social media for ...

Best Practices on Causes: Fundraising Projects

The Causes Nonprofit Services Team is on a mission to help turn all 17,000 nonprofit partners of Causes into social media fundraising success stories. Although each nonprofit is different, in the past four years we’ve gained insight into what the successful nonprofits are doing to fundraise on Causes and have found some common threads.  We ...

How have you used Causes to create an impact in your community?

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