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NetSquared-supported challenges this year

N2Y4 Mobile Innovation Challenge Microsoft Mobile Development Challenge Social Actions: Change the Web Challenge UC Berkeley Human Rights Mobile

Challenge USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

N2Y4 Mobile Innovation Challenge (14 finalists) Net Tuesday Organizer gathering Other sessions

Strategies for scaling volunteers (Wikimedia) Viral storytelling and social justice (LGBT

Advocacy) Open Social Web (Chris Messina) Twitter for social causes Blogging from Sub-Saharan Africa Second Life Mixed Reality Event

Net Tuesday Organizers at N2Y4

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Philly NetSquared

Monthly Net Tuesday gatherings Started May, 2008 First Tuesday of every month Activists, nonprofits, techies,

visionaries… Google group listserv phillynetsquared.org Lots of opportunity to get involved

Welcome to Net Tuesday!

Introductions Twitter Tag is

#phlnet2

Portal Pilsner

Your non-profit and non-profit portals

Net Tuesday Philadelphia, September 1, 2009

Judah Ferstjferst@buzzing4change.orgPresident, The Buzzing for Change FoundationDirector of Technological Services, Hillel of Greater Philadelphia[title pending], Ferst Solutions

Overview

Background The Portals Where these are going Questions and Idea Sharing Announcements

Why Use Them?

Consolidate all fundrasing and communications under one system

See how others are supporting a cause/non-profit

Allow people to find you through other means

Background

Guidestar – the engine that drives it all www.guidestar.org What is it? Their API allows these portals to verify

non-profit credentials for donations Opening up more of their data by the day

The Portals: Network for Good

www.networkforgood.org Mission: Make it easy to give and volunteer online Allowing people to gift a “good card” gift card Issues you a check regularly Resources for a non-profit:

DonateNow: Processing donations ($200 set up, $30 monthly fee, 3% per transaction). Is customizable. Integrates it with the look of your website Options for recurring donations

EmailNow: Work to keep your list out of SPAM. Click Tracking. ($49, plus $30 monthly fee, custom template is $100)

Fundraising training

The Portals: Network for Good

Features Charity Badges to put on other sites Ability for a donor to make a recurring

donation Does the credit card processing for the

other portals

The Portals: Razoo

www.razoo.com Mission: An inspiring place to donate

and raise money How they are different:

Do not charge any credit card transaction fees. Why do they do this?

Connect with Facebook Connect

The Portals: Razoo

Resources for Non-profits: Focus on specific projects Can customize your page Individuals can create their own

fundraising pages Individuals can follow your page Project pages:

Allow administrator to create a fundraising page around a specific appeal

The Portals: Razoo: Example

CHOSA Children of South Africa www.chosa.org Came in third place for the most new

donors competition Non-profit with the most donors would win

$10,000. They raised $8,500 and won $1,500 from Razoo.

Had supporters getting married support them through Razoo…

The Portals: Razoo

The Portals: change.org

www.change.org Mission: Raises awareness about important causes

and empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits Focus around causes and the non-profits that work in

those issue areas How it works:

You join a cause that has… A blog Petitions to sign or other actions to take Non-profits to donate to Cause hompage shows member’s actions

The Portals: change.org

Resources for nonproftis Puts the power in the individual’s hands

Ability for them start a cause or fundraising page for you

Can pledge to support an action and recruit others to do the same

Customizable look and URL Create a badge for your site Ability to sign up for your newsletter (not automated) Link to website and social media of yours

The Portals: change.org

Doing more: Non-profits contract with them to send

out e-mails to their list to encourage action

Word of caution: Tends to be liberal leaning in its views Donation processing is 4.75%

The Portals: Other

Amazee www.amazee.com Project management for world changers

I Do Foundation Idofoundation.org Gift or charity registries

Goodshop/goodsearch http://www.goodsearch.com/ Earn money back every time someone searches or shops

More at… http://www1.networkforgood.org/for-partners/customers http://www2.guidestar.org/rxg/about-us/clients.aspx

Other: Social Media Accounts

Flickr Youtube Causes on Facebook/myspace

Where these are going

The market is too big – some will fold, and soon, but may not yet have a “google” of the industry.

They will need to give more access to donor data

Some will (attempt to) become one stop website-in-a-box stops for non-profits

More with Facebook Connect and OpenSocial, etc.

More APIs

Questions Ideas

Announcements

Please tip the bar tenders! Tuesday, October 6 – offline to online

Explore how nonprofits and social change agents can take offline strategies for outreach, member engagement and fundraising, and apply them in an online, social environment.

Tuesday, September 8 – Planning Meeting Tuesday, November 3 – Local Mapping Case Studies Want to get involved? Speak with Seth, Ivan or Judah Bloblive

Right now at Rembrandts. Free for anyone coming from from Net Tuesday.

Others?