Using Social Networks to Raise Money, Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
September 10, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Gear Up for Giving, a monthlong series of social-media tutorials for nonprofit organizations, kicks off on the Case Foundation’s Web site today at 1 p.m. Eastern time. No registration is required for the sessions, which will discuss how charities can use to social media to raise awareness of their cause, cultivate new supporters, and spur advocacy.
- Donors and nonprofit groups often deceive themselves by describing overseas antipoverty projects as “sustainable” when there is very little chance the local governments could ever take them over, writes Michael Bear Kleinman, an aid worker, on Change.org’s blog.
- Financial advisers to wealthy people can build stronger relations with their clients by including philanthropy in their planning, writes Dune Thorne, who works for a Boston financial-management company, in Forbes magazine.
- While last week’s Social Capital Markets meeting discussed innovative ideas about how to create social and environmental benefits with business investments, it failed to include the nonprofit world in the discussion, says Nell Edgington, a nonprofit consultant in Austin, on her blog.
- The arts are a vital part of a community and need more support from local governments and others, argues Wendy Liscow, a program officer at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, in Morristown, N.J., on the grant maker’s blog.
