Thousands of the brightest and most passionate people working to improve child, maternal, and reproductive health gathered today at the 92YTribeca in New York City to share ideas, raise awareness, and inspire action around motherhood and social media. Check out our favorite 20 quotes from Mom+Social … tweetable of course. “It is, for me, […]
When it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR), consumers want more than aspirational mission statements. According to the newly released 2012 Cone Communications Corporate Social Return Trend Tracker, 84 percent of Americans hold companies accountable for producing and communicating the results of CSR commitments by going beyond the mission to robustly communicate progress against well-defined […]
The big questions on all nonprofit and social gooders’ minds: are things getting better? Are nonprofits finding more success online? Are the top-line numbers up? Should your online fundraising director get a raise? And in a lot of ways, the answers are yes. According to the latest eNonprofit Benchmark Study, online and email programs continue […]
Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause more deaths each year than all forms of violence, including war. But clean water changes everything. Safe drinking water alone can reduce water-related deaths by 21%. Families with enough clean water to drink, bathe, clean and grow their […]
March Madness is upon us – that favorite time of year when college basketball fanatics run rampant with their NCAA predictions and office water-cooler-talk turns into a common ground to organize betting pools. But before you scurry off to go fill out your bracket, here’s something to consider: March Madness for social good? Consider this […]
Let us introduce a new word: yerdle. “To yerdle” means to give, get or borrow anything for free – and that’s just what yerdle, a new social sharing platform, lets New Yorkers do. In a city where space is limited, yerdle helps members simplify their lives. Before rushing out to make a purchase, they can check […]
From every corner of the globe, online advocates are increasingly using social media to create social good. Below we share with you eight fantastic international sites that are tapping into global, digital and mobile resources to address local challenges. HARASSmap Harassmap (Arabic) is a social initiative using a SMS texting system for reporting incidences of […]
By Allison McGuire In an effort to determine what makes one cause ‘go viral’ over another, I spent the weekend researching viral campaigns. I discovered—as I’m sure many of you have—there is no one factor that makes social shares and chatter skyrocket overnight. I did, however, notice a pattern in the ways in which viral causes […]
Up until 24 hours ago, I thought “Sandy” was only one of two things: the heroin in the production of Grease, or the way I like my beaches. But alas, we have one more meaning to add to the list. Hurricane Sandy promises to be what many newscasters have termed “The Perfect Storm” for folks […]
Guest post by Nikhil D. Patil, Fellow at Arogya World Two weeks ago, New York was the place to be. While world leaders headed to the U.N. General Assembly and development experts and social entrepreneurs attended the Clinton Global Initiative, I and my fellow social media techies tweeted, Facebooked, Instagramed and YouTubed our way through the 2012 […]
