Tag: NONPROFIT

Yesterday, Google launched a new program aimed at helping nonprofit organizations reach a wider audience and raise greater awareness for their causes. Under the Google for Nonprofits program, approved organizations can take advantage of Google's exclusive product offerings. This suite of products includes up to $10,000 per month in advertising on Google AdWords, free or discounted access to ...

Craig Newmark, the pioneer behind Craigslist (and the bane of every newspaper's classifieds section) has just launched his latest project, CraigConnects.org. The site is dedicated to highlighting "good, effective nonprofits" and connecting them with other organizations, donors and volunteers. The site will also serve as a watchdog, identifying fake non-profits and scams. The site is live now, ...

Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook and the social media expert behind Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has now launched a new social network designed exclusively for social activism. The idea behind the new site, called Jumo, is to help users find causes that mean a lot to them, and strengthen their ties with other, similarly minded activists. Hughes announced the project back ...

When a massive earthquake struck Haiti last this year, the Red Cross managed to collect a total of $30 million in donations sent via text message. Since then, many other nonprofit organizations have tried to incorporate the Red Cross's SMS approach into their business models, but, as the New York Times reports, few have been able to do so successfully. The biggest hurdle most nonprofits face ...

Chris Hughes has a rather impressive resume. While at Harvard, he helped found Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. After serving as the spokesperson for what become one of the most popular social networks on the Web, Hughes was hired by the Obama campaign to help coordinate its online efforts, resulting in My.BarackObama.com (MyBO). Now Hughes is taking his knack for building ...

We don't want to be downers, but... When you're out tying one on tonight, it'll be easy to forget those out there who can't be with their friends and family on this ultimate party night. But we'd like to encourage everyone out there to show a little love and support for the men and women in uniform serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nonprofit, nonpartisan, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of ...

We're almost three years into the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, and things are not looking good for the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte. Negroponte is not just the founder of the OLPC Foundation, but he is also a professor at MIT, a founder of Wired magazine, a board member of Motorola, and was recently brought on by the Wall Street Journal to ensure that publication's editorial ...