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The Facebook App Causes came rushing out of the gate several years ago but never lived up to all the hype.  However, word is that the company is planning to roll out major new features in the coming months, with a full launch planned for mid-March. From TechCrunch: The design has been streamlined from the clunky-feeling… Continue reading Facebook App Causes To Pivot, Will Now Be A Web Site For Good

1% of Nothing is a startup organization that sits on the intersection of technology and charitable giving.  Its purpose is to inspire founders of early-stage companies (tech startups) to donate 1% of his/her assets to a cause of their choice. The idea is that the promise of new companies to 1% when theequity may be worth nothing, but if they are acquired, that 1%… Continue reading Donating Startup Equity To Charity: 1% Of Nothing Launches

An organization called Palindrome Advisors thinks so, and it launched a program Wednesday that aims to match executives in technology and other industries with nonprofits that need their help. “In technology terms, think of Palindrome as a “match.com” for industry leaders and the boards of nonprofits,” the group’s founder, Zaw Thet, told Digits in an… Continue reading Palindrome Advisors Looks to Team Tech Executives With Nonprofits

  Google just announced Google for Nonprofits, which is a this program that bundles together a bunch of useful Google products and services: Instead of applying to each Google product individually, you can sign up through a one-stop shop application process. If approved, you can access our suite of product offerings designed for nonprofits: up… Continue reading Google for Nonprofits Launches

Here are the results for Chrome for a Cause: Did you join in Chrome for a Cause? The $1 million tab-heavy campaign has come and gone (with a 250 tab per day maximum, much to our click-frenzied dismay), and Google’s tallied up the final scores. Of the nearly 60.6 million tabs “donated”, 16.2m went for vaccinations,… Continue reading Results for Chrome for a Cause

Here’s another tech startup that makes donating to charity much easier. SwipeGood is the company and their process is pretty straight forward.  The way it works is that your credit card transactions  are rounded to the nearest dollar and the actual difference from the rounding (less than a dollar) is given to a charity of… Continue reading SwipeGood, all your credit card purchases are rounded up to the nearest dollar and the difference goes to charity

Google is marketing its web browser, Chrome, with an extension where your web surfing and usage of the browser can support a list of causes.  The Google Chrome blog does an excellent job in simply describing the campaign: Starting today, we invite you to support five worthy causes by counting and “donating” the tabs you… Continue reading Affinity web surfing with Google Chrome- Browse for a good cause