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Vendorshop help Non-Profits, Charities Raise Money from Facebook....for Free! |
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Monday, 07 March 2011 09:31 |
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Vendorshop, one of the companies on the Propeller Venture Accelerator, can give charities and non-profits a potential way to raise money through their Facebook pages. VendorShop enables businesses to sell products on Facebook via their social shopping cart application and charities and non-profits to raise money in the same way. VendorShop is free to install and takes just minutes to set-up. It currently powers 15,000 stores worldwide. Here is a video giving an idea how it works.
World Vision Ireland received their first donation within hours of installing the Vendorshop technology, which really is an easy system to employ for those non-profits that lack a technical support.
This is a great way to convert 'friends' and 'likes' on Facebook into real hard cash at a time when funding is an issue for all social purpose organisations. Go try it or if you know non-profits who need to raise cash from supporters, let them know. |
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Irish Budget Will Be Hard on Social Sector...Now What? |
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Tuesday, 07 December 2010 12:38 |
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So the start of a major cut in monies going to the social purpose sector, coupled with cuts in general giving as the whole population takes a hit from the worse budget in a lifetime...so what now for all the social sector organisations in Ireland and indeed in other countries cutting their spending? We know from the Wheel data that the cuts of the last few years have already had a major impact. What can the sector do?
Well there are two schools of thought around this - the Social Enterprise School (Generate Earned Income for a Social Purpose) and the Social Innovation School (New and Better Ways to create and sustain social value).
We like both of them, and these ideas can be combined depending on the kind of social purpose organisation you are, though there are no 'silver bullets' here. Organisations will have to be:
• More entrepreneurial approach to solving these issues
• Adapt some of the activities of the commercial entrepreneurship world
• More sustainable social impact
• Open to approaches that help control costs, increase revenue and efficiencies
In some cases they will create new innovative ways to tackle social issues.
Sometimes I get accused of trying to make the social sector 'more like business.' But I reject that accusation. It is that, as the management guru Jim Collins once wrote: “A culture of discipline is NOT a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.”
Over the coming weeks we will be taking a look at earned income and how social sector organisations can become more entrepreneurial and innovative. At the end of the day it is not about 'profit' but social value maximisation, surely a good thing? |
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Online Giving Platform Mygoodpoints.org raises 125k Euro |
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Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:52 |
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Online charity MyGoodPoints is announcing today €125,000 funding from The Community Foundation for Ireland. The money will be given to the new Irish charity over two years, €25,000 every six months. We are particularly happy about this in the Ryan Academy as we have used Killian Stokes, the founder and CEO, as a speaker (he is excellent btw) many times, and we have advised mygoodpoints.org as part of our virtual social enterprise incubator over the last year or so (one of many supporters of Killian and his team). |
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“Understanding Finance” programme - Free Places Available |
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:51 |
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How to Make your Money Go Further
The management of money is an important skill that needs to be understood and practiced by everyone, particularly person finance at a time of financial constraints. The Ryan Academy Workshop aims to develop this skill by introducing the main areas of finance and explaining them in the context of your personal and household experiences.
You will be taken through a series of six practical and enjoyable workshops, where the aim will be to:
- Introduce the key areas of finance
- Examine ways to save money
- Understanding financial institutions, including banks, building societies and credit unions
- Financial services for the individual, including bank accounts, savings, credit cards and insurance
- Understanding your state entitlements and allowances
- Borrowing and understanding the cost of borrowing, including loans, hire purchase and mortgages
- Your consumer rights
- Budgeting
The courses will be held over 6 mornings, starting on Friday 19th November 2010 for 6 Friday’s. The workshop lasts for 2½ hours, from 10.00am to 12.30pm and a sandwich lunch will be served after each session.
Each week we will have a guest speaker from one of the following: Social Welfare, MABS, Consumers Association of Ireland, Banking Institute – this will be confirmed with you on Day 1 of the Workshop. A certificate of attendance will be awarded on completion of the 6 week workshop.
We are offering a limited number of free places to those who would like to learn how to better manage their money, especially in the current times we are living in.
If you would like to know more or book a FREE place on this programme, please contact Niamh Collins on 7006762 or email
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or drop in to our office at 3013 Lake Drive, Citywest Business Campus. |
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Rounding up a Bill to donate Money |
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:20 |
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The charity Pennies has launched a new donation idea in the UK, whereby Charities to benefit from scheme that asks customers paying online to donate by rounding up their bills to the nearest pound.
Pennies, which raises money for charities through electronic transactions, has set up a deal with the pizza chain Domino's. When a customer buys a pizza online they will be asked whether they would like to top up their bill to the nearest pound, with the extra money going to charity. Seventy-five per cent of any donation will go to Domino's chosen charity, the British Special Olympics. The other 25 per cent will be evenly distributed between nine charities that Pennies has chosen.
The Pennies Foundation has created Pennies, the electronic charity box. Pennies is designed to make giving to charity easy, quick and affordable. It’s new, inclusive and will raise additional money for many UK registered charities.
Full details of this can be found on the Third Sector website. |
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