Posts Tagged "Kiva"
TO THE ANSWER: Philanthropy 2.0
The old and traditional philanthropy was one way. When we donate, we feel we did a good thing. But that’s the end. We don’t know what effect our money will do. I want to call it Philanthropy 1.0 like Web 1.0 in which information was always provided in one-way road from the big media to us ordinary people. But in the world of Web 2.0, we got the power to express what we want to express and...
Read MoreOverrun by social media campaigns for your vote « Chewy Chunks
Nathaniel Whittemore of Change.org writes: “Is there actually any real demand for crowdsourced funding platforms?” These include Kiva, GlobalGiving, America’s Giving Challenge (Case foundation), Betterplace, Pepsi Refresh, and even Change.org itself from the idea-crowdsourcing point of view. Nathaniel succinctly summarizes the situation like so: “What about GlobalGiving? GlobalGiving...
Read More“Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Donations 2.0” Nope, not ours! « Opportunity International
“Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Donations 2.0” Nope, not ours! Ian Haisley, Jonathan Neddenriep, Reuben Thiessen and I will be meeting in Austin, Tex., this Friday to attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival. We are very excited to be with the “world’s most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators, content producers, programmers, widget inventors...
Read MoreSXSW Nonprofit Picks – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop
SXSW is just around the corner. For five days, nonprofit campaigners, techies, and social media enthusiasts will gather for one of the largest and most anticipated conferences of the year. But with over 3K+ attendees and hundreds of panels, core conversations, workshops and parties, it can be overwhelming to get the most out of SXSW. No worries though. Frogloop has put together a short list of...
Read MoreWiki Fundraising, Revisited | EditMe
Wiki Fundraising, Revisited Bookmark and Share Wednesday, December 2, 2009 donations accepted Back in October, I posted about the idea of leveraging the wiki ethos to help bridge the chasm between donors and recipients in the charitable giving space. The post talked about how Kiva comes close to this idea in their micro-lending approach. EditMe recently made its 325th loan as part of our ongoing...
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