Social-Media Manager Profile: Alison McQuade

This is the third in a series of short profiles of nonprofit professionals who manage the social networks for their organizations.

For more on how nonprofits are changing the way they manage social media, see The Chronicle‘s recent feature.

Name: Alison McQuade

Age: 26

Title: Online marketing manager

Organization: GlobalGiving

Twitter name: @akmcquade , where she has 2,567 followers

Number of Facebook followers her organization has attracted: 7,483

Success Story: Using social media, GlobalGiving is on pace to raise almost $500,000 this year, which is nearly triple the amount it raised through social media last year.

Read more of what she does with social media in this week’s Chronicle article, “Social-Media Mangers Help Charities Spin a Web of Support.”