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How can I get my project on GlobalGiving? Join us! Social Networking For Change(.org) Nonprofit social networking site Change.org is launching this morning and hopes to change the way the average person or activist interacts with nonprofits. The site focuses on getting users to issues they care about – ending hunger, stopping global warming, etc. Users can sound off on issues, but the site also recommends that these users donate their time and money to the causes they support. Unlike other recent sites we’ve seen, Change.org doesn’t reek of smugness. The site consists of social networking’s usual suspects, profiles, friends, messaging, groups, and a personal blog.
The other half of the site is the nonprofits the users can organize around. Each nonprofit also gets a project page, where they can ask members to donate money to fund special projects or just the general fund. Members can also donate time instead of money by participating in the “Actions” page, which is a Google maps enabled classified listing of volunteer activities, resolutions, events in your zip code. Check-In For Charity: Loopt Giving To Haiti If You Visit Chipotle, Panera, Or Whole Foods. Text-to-donate total exceeds $10m – I think we’re onto something.
Chances are you’ve heard of the text-to-donate system set up by the Red Cross to provide relief to quake-devastated Haiti. It seems that the ease of donating and the immediacy of the disaster have prompted a response far beyond what the Red Cross anticipated. I can understand why: I used the system to donate $10 (not to toot my own horn), and found it as easy as dropping a quarter in a slot at the grocery store.
So: good work everyone, and if you haven’t donated yet, give it a shot or check out Google’s catchall page for Haiti relief efforts. The success of this campaign raises some questions about the way this sort of thing should be handled by the telecoms. A $10 charge will appear on my T-Mobile bill, I’m assuming; they volunteered to support this effort, so I think that’ll be the end of it, but now that I’ve gotten a taste of it, I want more. Not necessarily just for donations, but for mobile charging in general. Make A Real Donation To Fight Cancer With Facebook Credits.
For the first time, Facebook Credits will be used towards a large-scale philanthropic movement at tonight’s Stand Up To Cancer event. The star-studded live fundraiser and telethon will be broadcast across a number of major television channels as a way to raise money towards cancer research. While generally these events usually focus on getting people to call in to donate money towards a cause, now viewers will be able to make donations via Facebook’s virtual currency Facebook Credits, with 100 percent of the donation going towards the cause.
Members can donate with Facebook Credits on Stand Up To Cancer’s Facebook page. In the past, the Stand Up To Cancer telethon has raised over $100 million. Facebook has been aggressively marketing Credits over the past few months. Target now sells gift cards for Credits, and recently struck a deal with Malaysian payments company MOL Global (the company that bought Friendster) to sell gift cards for credits at retail stores in Malaysia and Singapore. Loans that change lives.