November 4, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
This is the first 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: Danielle Brigida
Age: 26
Title: Digital marketing manager
Organization: National Wildlife Federation
Twitter name: @starfocus , where she has 12,910 followers
Number of Facebook followers her organization has attracted: 45,533
Success Story: She helped raise $112,000 on Facebook through the Causes.com service and provided the charity’s supporters with information on how to help wildlife hurt by the Gulf oil spill.
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.”
