Social Web for Non Profits
Non Profits also need money, resources, and buzz. Your non profit organization must have an online-presence to raise money, recruit volunteers, and create awareness. However, you don’t have to spend thousands to put your worthy cause on the web. There are some excellent social web tools that you can use for free.
Our old friends Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn are there for you to create profiles for your organization. These sites are also good for recruiting volunteers for your cause. Facebook will put your profile in your city’s network by default.
Care2 is a social network to bring social changes. It has almost eight millions users. Create your group there and reach like-minded people. It has features geared towards participatory democracy and promoting social changes. For example, you can sign petitions or create your own petitions. It is a must check out for any body who wants to make a difference.
Fundable is a fund raising web applictions that accepts non-accredited non-profit organizations. You can set up a fund raising page for any cause. You set your goals and people pledge money for your cause. If you cannot reach your goal, fundable deletes all the pledges and nobody pays anything.
Instead of communicating with your group using emails and instant messaging, you can use CircleUp. You can send a message to your entire gorup and instead of getting hundreds of replies in your inbox, you get all the replies neatly organized by CircleUp. You don’t have to register for replying to a CircleUp message.
VolunteerMatch brings people together. As the name suggests, it matches good people with good causes. It has over two million users.
