PayPal’s ‘Regift the Fruitcake’ campaign returns for a second year, encouraging charity through social media and the power of the unwanted holiday fruitcake.
Twitter Used For Social Media Fundraising?
As some of you may know, I was recently involved in a tagline competition for The Printed Blog.
The prize for the winner was a Nintendo Wii. Despite being way behind after missing a day’s worth of voting, I ended up winning the contest, with over 51% of votes.
MySpace Partners With PayPal On Fundraising
MySpace has partnered with PayPal to create the MySpace IMPACT/ PayPal fundraising widget that allows users to collect donations for non-profit organizations.
The Process of Fundraising and Making Sausage
On April 28th we held a contest for the first blogger to post five details of the Series B Socialtext closed. Now, the details are out in our local paper. Socialtext raised a $3.1 million Series B round led by Tim Draper at DFJ that closed on April 15th.
Recurring Payments: An Important Fundraising Tool for Charities
As a nation, we have always derived great benefit from the charitable impulses of philanthropists – individuals who felt a strong sense of obligation to their fellow man, sharing their financial resources in an all-out effort to help others. During times of tragedy, such as the September 11th incident, charitable giving notably increases to help assuage our collective suffering.