Mashable’s Summer of Social Good « A. Fine Blog
Mashable has announced a giving campaign that runs from June 1st through August 28th of this year to raise money for four terrific causes; The Humane Society, …

The New Free | outlandos music: blog
Fascinating post on the "limits of free" (h/t Allison Fine): "The biggest idea I came out of SxSW with this year was that free is dead. Over. Overdone. We …

onPhilanthropy.com – The Stimulus and Philanthropy: Meaning Beyond Money
An important post by Dr. Susan Raymond: “Estimates vary, but the last 18 months have seen something on the order of $10 trillion in disappeared assets in …

Press releases/Wikipedia fundraiser surpasses $6million USD January 2009 – Wikimedia Foundation
From Jimmy Wales: “With the support of over 125,000 donors from around the world, the Wikimedia Foundation has achieved its goal of raising over $6 …

Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent …

NextGen – A Flawed Concept for our Times? | eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog
Let me begin by saying that I really don’t like the term “nextGen.” … Underlying it is a very patronizing concept. …

How cool is it to be named to Beth Kanter’s “Top 10 Nonprofit Technology (NPTech) and Social Media for Social Change Blogs” – well, very! Especially for the company:
Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech
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Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent …

Holiday Gift Guide for Social Entrepreneurs 2008 — Social Edge
Social Entrepreneurs are being asked to be good at a great many things. So in the spirit of being supportive, this year’s Holiday Gift Guide for …

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Spot.us, a new platform for community funded journalism, officially launched this week! Spot.us enables the “public to commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories.” It’s a great idea with …

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The desire for “change” was one of the biggest themes for this past US election — captivating millions to get involved, break fund raising records, and vote for a new president. Now …

We’re closing out our program to provide free advance/review copies to bloggers – so get your requests in asap for a copy of CauseWired.
Thanks to my friends at Wiley, the program to get as many …

Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent …

Today is the appropriately-named Blog Action Day, an effort to unite thousands of bloggers behind a single issue and create some momentum for policy change and citizen involvement. With partners like Kiva and Change.org the …

Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent …

Beth Kanter is compiling a list of 20-something bloggers writing about a sector that is supposedly dominated by 20-something bloggers. It’s one of those great posts that 1. makes you think and 2. is teeming …

Plug-ins and widgets get released every day on the social web, but I think Friday’s release of the new Social Actions DonorsChoose plug-in for Wordpress is an important milestone in peer-to-peer online social activism. For …