This presentation was made to the Foundation Center in San Francisco about Causes.

1. Foundation Center San Francisco Susan Gordon

3. How does it work? What tools are available?

4. Building a Community and Gearing Up for Fundraising

5. Fundraising

8. 450,000 user-created causes

9. 15,000 official nonprofit partners

10. $26 million donated in ~3 years

11. 1 million cause joins every day

12. 1 million media views per day

13. Distribution to 500 million active users on FB

15. Viral Growth

16. Communications Tools

17. Education Tools http://media.causes.com/842234?m=6d5c0307&s=cause

18. Run Advocacy Campaigns

19. Fundraise

20. Identify Key Supporters

21. Repeat Engagement: User Homepage http://apps.facebook.com/causes

22. Nonprofit Partner Center http://nonprofits.causes.com

23. Nonprofit Partner Center http://nonprofits.causes.com

24. Building A Community on Causes

25. Your Nonprofit’s Presence on Causes Wildlife Forever Support Wildlife Forever Save the Wolves! STOP Wolf Hunting from Planes Californians For Bear Protection

26. Affiliate Causes http://nonprofits.causes.com

27. Contests for Top Recruiter & Membership Drives

29. Welcome Note

30. Media

31. Updates

32. Communicate consistently

33. Set goals and achieve them

34. Make it exciting and fun to be involved

35. Recognize active participants

36. Delegate community building if you don’t have time

37. Fundraising on Causes

38. Donate

39. Donations on Causes

40. Birthday Wish 5,000 people x 10% of members x $100 per bday = $50,000

41. Custom Fundraising Projects

42. Donate to a Project www.causes.com/donate

43. Campaigns – Mass and Individual Communications

44. Case Study: Camfed

45. Case Study: The Humane Society of the US

47. PetitionsPromote Birthday Wish Think like an organizer

48. Thank you! Blog and Resource Center: http://exchange.causes.com Email Support: partner@causes.com More information: http://www.causes.com