E-Philanthropy

GoodThreads announced a strategic partnership with online fundraising software vendor FirstGiving. Both brands will use core assets of their technology to create an innovative solution for nonprofit partners who want to offer personalized merchandise to supporters for events and fundraisers.

The partnership will create a new channel of giving for nonprofit partners through personalized merchandise.

The Startup America Partnership, a nonprofit organization working with the government to fund innovation and create jobs, on Tuesday unveiled a new online platform and $330 million worth of product and service commitments designed to help early stage companies, CEO Scott Case told Reuters.

The platform was beta tested by several hundred companies for about a month, said Case, who aims to have more than 100,000 small businesses registered by the first quarter of 2012.

Announcing the winner of the 2011 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence E-mail Campaign of the Year, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

Here are eight ways to amp up your e-mail marketing and fundraising with social media.

Ted Hart talks with Artez Interactive President Mark Sutton about how fundraisers can get the most out of e-philanthropy, social media and mobile on his Nonprofit Coach radio show.

Converting cultural patrons into donors, and generating more support for cultural groups, are the goals of a new website that will launch in August.

The site, www.power2give.org, aims to help connect donors and cultural groups that need funds for projects with price-tags of up to $10,000.

The website will let cultural groups post information about their projects for free and then use their own communications tools to refer constituents to power2give.

Network for Good has updated The Network for Good Online Giving Index with insights and trends from the first two quarters of 2011. This Index builds on data and observations from The Online Giving Study released last December and is updated quarterly to provide timely and relevant snapshots of the state of online charitable giving.

The Museum of Fine Arts launched a campaign to raise more than $1 million to buy the “Lime Green Icicle Tower.’’

The MFA quietly began the campaign last week by adding a donation box next to the piece and sending an e-mail to museum members pointing them to the contribution website. This week, they plan to add tweets and Facebook posts to spread the word.

The MFA’s public appeal includes, for the first time, a chance for museum visitors to give online and by texting on their phones.

Four fundraising experts discussed donor giving trends and what they mean for fundraisers at the Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater New York Chapter's Fund Raising Day in New York. SankyNet CEO Harry Lynch discussed online giving.

There are many ways to justify having a social presence as a nonprofit (and not too many good reasons not to have one by now). But how do you measure its value to your nonprofit?