Planning engaging and crowd-pleasing charity events is a must if you are going to increase donations to your cause and generate meaningful financial support to your organization. Here are six simple tips to make your charity events run smoother: Reservations, please. If you like this post, please follow us on  Twitter  and  Facebook. MORE >>

Great reason to NOT fundraise with Facebook. Last night the power went out at the Super Bowl for 33 minutes and 55 seconds. And brands had a field day using Twitter to add humor and garner brand recognition. CNET reports that during the blackout, Twitter activity was around 231,500 tweets per minute! Where were the nonprofits?! Love146. MORE >>

Last week a much-anticipated feature was released by Facebook’s developers. The practicalities: one must enable the feature at this point within one’s account (though Facebook says every account will be updated to feature Timeline in the near future). Once activated, your posts, photos, etc. Look at Artez as well. MORE >>

That’s pretty eyecatching – so I read on to the subhead… “Facebook is not a useful tool for fundraising but rather should be utilised for donor stewardship and building interest, according to a top Facebook Exec.&#. All of which kind of counter the “Facebook is not for fundraising&# claim. MORE >>

Facebook’s power on the social-networks scene need hardly be introduced, and thousands of nonprofits and charities have tapped into that power to expand and support their good work. But has the company offered any of its billions to those nonprofits and charities? MORE >>