The co-chairs of President Obama’s deficit reduction commission released their plan today to trim the Federal red ink by $3.8 trillion through 2020. In releasing the revised report called “The Moment of Truth,” co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson capped months of behind-the-scenes meetings and discussions about how to tackle the debt. No doubt, months [...]

Mashable’s Summer of Social Good « A. Fine Blog Mashable has announced a giving campaign that runs from June 1st through August 28th of this year to raise money for four terrific causes; The Humane Society, Oxfam, World Wildlife Fund and LiveStrong. It will be very intersting to see how this effort unfolds. Mashable is [...]

The New Free | outlandos music: blog Fascinating post on the "limits of free" (h/t Allison Fine): "The biggest idea I came out of SxSW with this year was that free is dead. Over. Overdone. We killed it. Because so much is free online, we expect it; where’s the value in that?" (tags: socialmedia music) [...]

onPhilanthropy.com – The Stimulus and Philanthropy: Meaning Beyond Money An important post by Dr. Susan Raymond: “Estimates vary, but the last 18 months have seen something on the order of $10 trillion in disappeared assets in the American economy, as much as $25 trillion globally. Storied names in finance are no more. Whole industries teeter. [...]

Press releases/Wikipedia fundraiser surpasses $6million USD January 2009 – Wikimedia Foundation From Jimmy Wales: “With the support of over 125,000 donors from around the world, the Wikimedia Foundation has achieved its goal of raising over $6 million USD to sustain Wikipedia. As of today, the campaign has generated just over $6.2 million USD.” (tags: wikipedia [...]

Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent Social Actions Round-up of links and resources here at CauseWired, created by the prolific and plugged-in team of Joe Solomon, [...]

NextGen – A Flawed Concept for our Times? | eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog Let me begin by saying that I really don’t like the term “nextGen.” … Underlying it is a very patronizing concept. It says: you are not rich enough or not proven enough to really be worth listening to. (tags: millennials [...]

How cool is it to be named to Beth Kanter’s “Top 10 Nonprofit Technology (NPTech) and Social Media for Social Change Blogs” – well, very! Especially for the company: Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Have Fun Do Good Katya Andresen: Nonprofit Marketing Blog Laura’s Notebook Qui Diaz – Evange.list Social Actions Social Citizens Blog [...]

Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent Social Actions Round-up of links and resources here at CauseWired, created by the prolific and plugged-in Joe Solomon. Enjoy it [...]

Holiday Gift Guide for Social Entrepreneurs 2008 — Social Edge Social Entrepreneurs are being asked to be good at a great many things. So in the spirit of being supportive, this year’s Holiday Gift Guide for Social Entrepreneurs is designed to help social entrepreneurs measure up to the task (tags: socialventures) Power Shift 2009 Peter [...]

Photo by Maneno.org Spot.us, a new platform for community funded journalism, officially launched this week! Spot.us enables the “public to commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories.” It’s a great idea with an awesome and well though-out execution. Spot.us is also the first open-source action platform, which may enable others to [...]

Photo by David Reece The desire for “change” was one of the biggest themes for this past US election — captivating millions to get involved, break fund raising records, and vote for a new president. Now that the election is over – “Change” has been given a much bigger place in our culture and I [...]

We’re closing out our program to provide free advance/review copies to bloggers – so get your requests in asap for a copy of CauseWired. Thanks to my friends at Wiley, the program to get as many review copies of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World into the hands of bloggers as we can [...]

Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent Social Actions Round-up of links and resources here at CauseWired, created by the prolific and plugged-in Joe Solomon. Enjoy it [...]

Today is the appropriately-named Blog Action Day, an effort to unite thousands of bloggers behind a single issue and create some momentum for policy change and citizen involvement. With partners like Kiva and Change.org the effort is decidedly CauseWired; this year’s focus is on poverty and the idea is to create a vast conversation with [...]