Category: Tech + Social Ventures

  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

One of the founders of Facebook is working on a new startup that’s trying to create a social network with a focus on charities called Jumo, which just went into beta today: Jumo aims to help you discover what causes matter to you by allowing you to follow specific charities as well as keep tabs… Continue reading Jumo – A Social Network For Charities

Here’s an informative piece on the technologies, economics, and pitfalls of using text message based charitable donations: Texted donations currently are limited to $5 and $10 increments and capped by mobile phone companies at five a month from a single phone. But that’s not the only downside.  There are huge costs to setting up a… Continue reading Using Text (SMS) For Charity Donations

Crowdrise aims to make raising money for a cause not just easy, but also fun. Setting up a page to support something you care about takes less than a minute. Then, friends and family can be invited to be sponsors by donating any amount of money, large or small. You don’t have to run a… Continue reading Crowdrise- Ed Norton’s social networking and charity website

It looks like we’re not done with affinity search engines.  Here’s the latest one I spotted, called Search and Share SearchAndShare.org Google from Search and Share on Vimeo.

The fast growing and popular deal site Groupon has joined Charity Drive, to help groups of people get together to raise money for charity. It is a new kind of philanthropy — the digital version of the public radio pledge drive, when businesses offer to match listener donations for a period of time. The Pershing… Continue reading Groupon Joins in Charity Drive