Posts Tagged ‘philanthropy’

29 Mar

Catch the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship TODAY

Posted by Julie Nordskog in Bottom of the Pyramid, Developing Regions, Social Entrepreneur, Sustainable Development, World Issues. Tagged: , , , , , , , .

Sadly, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, March 28-30, 2012 at the University of Oxford, England,  is by invitation only. Sadly, I won’t be there. But I can live vicariously through the Internet!

Why have a world forum on social entrepreneurship? Because it matters! A lot.  By the way, this link is to Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg’s post on the Huffington Post.  And Ariana Huffington is a featured speaker at the forum this year.

 

 

For those of us who can’t be in Oxford, video recordings of select presentations are available online and also in live stream. Here’s the schedule:

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10 Feb

A whole lot of people are giving online.

Posted by Julie Nordskog in Donations, Fundraising, Internet. Tagged: , , .

What a difference a decade makes! Network for Good released a survey results tracking the growth of online giving. Here are two impressive data points:

  • Only 4% of donors gave online in 2000.  In 2011, that figure was 65%.
  • A mere $3 million dollars in online donations in 2000 had grown to $140 million in 2011.

Have you donated money online? Do you prefer to donate online or by some other means?

Click below to see the image re-published by The Chronicle for Social Philanthropy.