According to Mashable, LinkedIn (Myspace for grown-ups) will:
announce tomorrow its new LinkedIn for Good, which is a philanthropic initiative for raising awareness and raising funds for nonprofits around the world.
Nonprofit organizations will be able to use LinkedIn as a platform for involving the LinkedIn community with their causes, leveraging the 11 million users that are present within the online community. Provided with this new feature are free badges to be placed on profiles, and registered nonprofits free job listings in order to find new members to join their teams. British rockstar James Blunt is already using LinkedIn to raise over $23,000 for Doctors Without Borders. Other featured LinkedIn for Good organizations include American Red Cross, the World Wildlife Fund and Unitis and Kiva, microfiance organizations.
hat tip, Dave B. at Journal Marketing
There's also another charitable donation social networking site that facilitates free surgery. The site itself looks like spoof site, but it isn't a joke. Personally, I'm very disgusted. I much rather see organizations that provided essential cosmetic surgery to children in the developing receive this type of media attention. I'm talking about organizations such as Interplast.
*sigh*
These things both amuse and sadden me. I spend my professional life trying to convince people to spend as little as $250 to fund plastic surgeries for children in the global south who really need them. And by "need", I mean they can't work/attend school/eat/write, not can't fill out a hefty bra.
On the one hand, it's sad that men are donating to pay plastic surgeons to work on American women with self-esteem issues.
On the other hand, this kinda thing just inspires me to work harder. As this site shows, people are obviously willing to donate money to help make women more beautiful and improve their self-esteem. The trick is to get them to help Yesenia rather than someone on that ridiculous site.
So back to work for me!
Posted by: Interplast | May 23, 2007 at 12:58 PM
I think it's great that market-leading sites are encouraging people to give. My only concern is that this giving is at the expense of other giving that a person would otherwise do.
We have a search engine that helps charities and augments their fundraising. http://searchgive.com gives 50% of its advertising revenue to charities that are registered with us. The neat part about this is that we are not taking away form any existing fundraising, we are helping a charities by letting their constituents do something they do anyway (search the web) to support the charity.
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