Are you leveraging your audience and influence for good? Read this.

Tweet What are we doing all of this for? Is our only purpose for collecting an audience to be popular and feed our ego? Is a business only concerned with its audience to the extent that it can sell products or services? Can’t we do better than obsessing over traffic, followers, likes and Klout scores? [...]

TurboTax, Operation Homefront Announce Mission2Match to Support U.S. Troops

TweetAs you know, one of the reasons why we started Social Media Philanthropy was to help give a voice to and amplify the reach for various causes and charities.  In some cases we highlight companies that are doing socially responsible things or sponsoring, participating or promoting activities that give back.  For this reason we are [...]

BIG Movember Thank You

Tweet   I want to give a HUGE shout out to those that supported my Movember mustache-growth fundraiser. Thank you to the following people: Tejas Gosai Maryanne Gibbard Chris Martin Hyalker Amaral Jamie Goddard Surge Creative Group All in all my Movember team was able to raise over $2,000. While I hated having the mustache, the [...]

Give wholeheartedly for this ridiculous thing on my face – Movember

TweetSTOP FOR A MOMENT… and look at this thing on my face.  My face is not well suited for a moustache.  However, in spite of that very obvious fact, I started growing one on November 1st.  Why?  Because it’s Movember. What is Movember? Movember is simultaneously the most effective and least enjoyable way to raise [...]

An experiment in micro-donations, will you participate?

TweetSo what’s so great about the World Wide Web? I think there are a myriad of things that can be said about the internet.  Our unprecedented access to information, our ability to connect with one another, and of course LOLCats. But one of the things I find most amazing about the internet is that it allows [...]

Philanthropy and its role on this blog

TweetOne of the early inspirations for this blog was the desire to help others. The tagline of my blog is “Generously donating ideas and opinions…you’re welcome.”  This is a play on words, as donating ideas is one form of my philanthropy.  Beyond having a platform to convey my ideas and educate my audience about issues [...]

Cancer Sucks Part II – Fundraiser for Angelo Avery & Lorenzos brother 1

TweetIf you are in Philadelphia and want to come out for something important, please check out this event that runs from 4pm – 10pm at National Mechanics. Cancer Sucks Part II – Fundraiser for Angelo Avery & Lorenzos brother 1.