There is no doubt that Twitter has turned into a priceless tool to help nonprofits, social entrepreneurs and online activists collaborate, fund raise and share good works. I’ve written articles about helping children in poverty with Twitter and leveraging Twitter to fund nonprofits and while writing these articles, come across a plethora of great “twools” (Twitter tools) that can help change-makers propel their cause through promotion and fundraising. I thought a good list of nonprofit-specific [...]

A program of the Starbucks Foundation, the Starbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grants program is designed to help young people realize their natural potential to reinvent their local communities. The program is the primary vehicle through which the Starbucks Foundation invests in communities globally as part of the Starbucks Shared Planet commitment to communities. Since launching the grants program in 2007, more than $1.5 million in total has been invested in youth-led initiatives around the [...]

The environment needs our help. There is undeniable proof that global warming is real, and negatively impacting our world. It is our responsibility to live a more environmentally conscious lifestyle. At SocialEarth we believe social media, specifically Twitter, can be a powerful tool for educating people and cultivating support. Previously, we’ve highlighted the top social entrepreneurs and microfinance people and organizations on Twitter, and now we want to highlight the top Green tweeters on Twitter. [...]

While spending the week in the city of brotherly love, I had the grand opportunity to meet with Katherina Rosqueta, Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and Eric Rassman, Deputy Director of Ikatu International, a social enterprise startup that seeks to create employment opportunities for youth worldwide to enable self-sufficiency. I now count these two brilliant and engaging [...]

If you’re in a socially conscious start-up and are seeking innovative venues of funding or just a regular Joe looking to support your favorite charity, then you should definitely consider Twitter a friend. Twitter offers multiple ways to connect your nonprofit or social change organization to funding options. Small Funding To find small funding on Twitter you should tap resources like Twollars, TwitPay, Twitter contests and tweet broadcasting. Twollars, or Twitter dollars, gives Twitter users [...]

One of the best (and worst) features on Twitter is the hashtag. It allows you to find interesting topics, intellectual tweeters and real-time information. It also subjects you to multiple spammings everyday (#RIPKanye anyone?). And with the recent (okay, a couple months ago) integration of the search tool on your Twitter homepage, hashtags are easier to use than ever. So in order to dig through the clutter and get to the worthwhile tweets, I have [...]