CafeGive Social: A New Beginning
This is a pretty exciting week for us. It marks an important milestone in our journey as entrepreneurs, and an exciting new page for our customers and the company. The three founders of CafeGive...
View ArticleGive Back with the Power of Social Media Marketing
Social media's only making marketing stronger.Staying up to date with people, news, ideas, and events has never been easier, thanks to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The world is...
View ArticleCause Talk Radio - The Power of Social Media Apps for Cause Marketing
It’s always a kick to talk about what you love to do, your passions and your dreams. It’s even more of a thrill to share it with people who share your enthusiasm. That’s what the CafeGive CEO, Sandra...
View ArticleChange Happens When Social Media and Cause Marketing Collide
Whether we call it community involvement, strategic philanthropy, cause marketing or purpose based branding - when businesses and nonprofits successfully partner -- change happens. It’s good for the...
View ArticleWinning Lessons for Credit Union Social Giving Campaigns
Over the last few months, we have been busy learning about credit unions' community giving programs and how social media can increase the impact of community giving programs. Many of the credit unions...
View ArticleSocial Media, The Dragonfly and Your Happiness
Thank you to all who joined us last night at our Social Media Roundtable where Author Andy Smith of The Dragonfly Effect shared the stories, philosophy and framework on how to use social media to have...
View ArticleCafeGive Boosts Year-End Giving Campaigns and Giving Tuesday
CafeGive will celebrate a national movement that is making, November 27, 2012, a day dedicated to giving (#GivingTuesday) by offering businesses and their causes ready to deploy Facebook apps to...
View ArticlePetElect2012 Photo Contest Showed Us Alot About Our Own Social Media...
The polls have closed, the votes have been tallied, the tails have wagged, the ears have been scratched, the chew toys have been chewed to mere scraps. We’re proud to finally announce that the winner...
View ArticleCafeGive Social, Cause Marketing
Every day, more and more buying decisions are being made based on socially responsible actions. Companies with authentic stories to share and inspiration to build around their brand are doing it with...
View Article5 Ways to Do Good in 5 Minutes this Holiday Season
Are you feeling overwhelmed this holiday season? You’re not alone. Between travel, expenses, family obligations, and deadlines at work, December may be the most stressful month of the year. But while...
View ArticleThank Santa: Toys for Tots Successful Facebook Giving Campaign
Last Christmas, social media helped do some of Santa’s work for him. The U.S. Marine Corps Reserves’ Toys for Tots program, in collaboration with toymaker Hasbro and CafeGive, launched a Facebook...
View ArticleHow to Stick to Your Resolution to Give Back this Year
We’re more than a week into 2013, which means:You’re still accidentally writing 2012 on all of your checksYou still have about 4 more weeks until you have to get rid of the Christmas treeA quarter of...
View ArticleHow Patelco Credit Union Used Social Media to Provide Hurricane Sandy Relief...
Hurricane Sandy put social media to the test. When tens of thousands of people lost power across the East Coast last October, social media services like Twitter and Instagram were, in many cases, the...
View Article10x10’s Girl Rising Comes to Sundance, and Soon—with Your Help—Theaters...
Last night, 10x10 previewed Girl Risingat the Sundance Film Festival. The film is a documentary about girls’ education in the developing world, and follows ten girls, each from a different country, as...
View ArticleCafeGive Celebrates Valentine's Love with 14 Days of Giving
Though it is without a doubt the greatest feeling in the universe, love’s a notoriously difficult thing to define. Love is in the air. Love is a battlefield. Love hurts, love scars. Love is a...
View ArticleFundraising in Social Media Can Kick Employee Engagement into Action
Have you heard the one about the lawyers and the kickball tournament?Employee engagement is no joke. Engaged employees are more productive than their counterparts, and more likely to remain in their...
View Article5 Ways to Get Started Finding a Corporate Partner for Your Nonprofit
For nonprofit managers, choosing a corporate partner can feel a lot like dating. There are the giddy first encounters. The preliminary Google searches. The awkward conversations over coffee. The nights...
View ArticleHow Credit Unions Get Involved in the Community
In terms of American history, the credit union is younger than the car. It may be hard to believe, but the first credit union in the United States opened for business just a little over a hundred years...
View Article5 Ways to Get Started Finding a Nonprofit Partner for Your Business
I’ve written before about starting a partnership between a nonprofit and a corporate entity, from the nonprofit perspective. This article examines the same process from the corporate...
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