The Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits

from Nonprofit Communications

Report from MobileActive.org

great collection of responses to the question

How nonprofits can use Flickr from Beth Kanter

Great list of examples from Have Fun • Do Good

Are there any corporations from whom you would refuse funding?

There are many parallels between nonprofit and political marketing. Watch how the people with the money use their marketing dollars to get people engaged in the campaigns and voting for the candidates.

Collected posts on the theme of Gatesgate (as dubbed, I believe, by Allison Fine) - the recent revelations that some of the Gates Foundation's investments run counter to its philanthropic work

These organizations are winners because of their web 2.0 smarts and a willingness to engage their constituents far beyond asking them to dig into their pockets.

Hosted at The Nonprofit Consultant Blog

Sell items on eBay (regift your unwanted holiday presents?) and raise money for heart health through MIssionFish.

"An online repository of information around humanitarian and social causes, with the intent of creating a place where people can both get motivated to act on them and find immediate, varied tips on how to do it."

The Media Volunteer Project lets people from the nonprofit community share their own media contact information in exchange for access to everyone else's information.

A wiki on Web 2.0 best practices for nonprofits created by Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project Blog

A nice summary from Beth Kanter

"A directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites dedicated to making a difference in the world."

Marc at npMarketing Blog shows how the long tail applies to nonprofits

Honoring MySpace members (organizations and individuals) engaging the MySpace community in a variety of important causes. Nominate someone you think should be recognized.

It's a competitive world out there -- not just against those marketing unhealthy products, but with other equally worthy causes. Accept this and show how you are different from the others and more relevant to your audience's lives.

hosted at Getting Attention

Katya Andresen (author of Robin Hood Marketing) now has her own website with a new blog.

from DotOrganize (via Believing Impossible Things blog) - This report compiles insights from more than 400 social change groups, technology providers, and nonprofit technology capacity builders, examining the needs of organizers working to utilize new tec

How nonprofits are using MySpace

From Nancy Schwartz at Getting Attention

an introduction to the whats, wheres and whys of wikis

A resource center from NetSquared

A $100,000 package of in-kind communications services to create and launch a breakthrough cause marketing campaign for a visionary nonprofit and its corporate partner. Applications due 7/31/06.

A guide for nonprofits from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Blog highlighting international social marketing campaigns

AScribe Newswire distributes the news of America's nonprofit and public sector organizations.

The Global Ideas Bank aims to promote and disseminate good creative ideas to improve society. It is part-suggestions box, part-ideas network and part-democratic think-tank.

Article from Business Week

Cause Marketing Forum

from The Maytree Foundation

Advertising for Nonprofit Organizations (from Argentina)

Leading producer of PSAs since 1942

Brandchannel.com - value of nonprofit brands