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36 posts and columns on nonprofit
Old Media Doesn’t Get New Media, Chapter 203: The Sheryl Sandberg Attack
The relationship between old media and new media is, in the parlance of Facebook, complicated.
Medical Crowdfunding Site Watsi Becomes Y Combinator’s First Nonprofit Startup
“I’ve never been so excited about anything we’ve funded,” says YC chief Paul Graham.
Crowdfunding for a Cause: Nonprofits Can Now Hold Fundraisers on Crowdtilt
Crowdtilt says it is the first crowdfunding site to fully support charity fundraising.
RIM May Not Survive, but Its Founders’ Nonprofit Side Projects Will
Like the BlackBerry? Too bad. Fancy theoretical physics or global governance? RIM’s founders have funded two nonprofits that are on far more solid ground.
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The Cost of Online Giving
Donating to a charity online may be costlier than you think.Start-Up Rally Wants Your Cause to Raise Money Online, Even if Justin Bieber Isn’t Tweeting About It
There’s an old maxim in fundraising: It’s better to get one dollar from 100 supporters than it is to get $100 from one supporter. Or you can get a new online fundraising start-up called Rally to take advantage of the network effects of your real supporters.
Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs Talks Firefox 4, Competition With Google's Chrome and More! (Video)
Yesterday, BoomTown paid a long overdue visit on the Mountain View, Calif., HQ of Mozilla, the unusual public-private company that makes the Firefox browser, to chat with its (relatively) new CEO Gary Kovacs (pictured here). There is a lot to talk about with the new exec, especially the near-to-official launch of Firefox 4, the increasing competition with Google and its Chrome efforts and where Mozilla goes next (mobile).
Demand Media's IPO Is On Deck, With Amended Filing
Demand Media, which posted its regulatory S-1 filing in August, filed an amended version today that is likely to allow it to move quickly to an initial public offering. It now must now wait for the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the filing, after the which the execs of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand will immediately to go on a road show for several weeks to try to convince investors to jump on board. Then, if there’s enough interest, the IPO is likely to come before the holidays.
From the Department of the Obvious: Poll Finds Parents Are Worried About Privacy on Social Networks
A national poll released today by Common Sense Media asking how well social networks protect kids online produced an answer that should come as a shock to exactly no one: Not very well, at least according to parents. A full 75 percent of them gave social networking sites such as Facebook a negative rating for the task.
Full D8 Interview Video: Demand Media's Richard Rosenblatt and ProPublica's Paul Steiger
As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held earlier this month. Here’s one of the most interesting pairings at D8–Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media, the Google-savvy content engine, and former Wall Street Journal edit chief Paul Steiger of ProPublica, a nonprofit that produces hefty investigative pieces online and off. The debate over the future of journalism is a key one over the next several years, as new content models emerge and old ones wither.