Charity and social networks

Have you ever donated money to charity? Have you ever done it  through social networks?

Earlier in my blog  I viewed  the topic of  using social networks for businesses, today I want to draw your attention to a delicate issue - charity.

 

 

The  reality is  that to the child, who needs  an urgent surgery, or  poor people who needs food  we need to collect money, almost by the whole world. In this case, social networks help a lot. 

You can often see posts with calls for help on their pages. The purpose of charitable organizations in social networks is to bring people together in order to help those who find themselves in a difficult situation, because life has presented them not with a pleasant surprise. All independent volunteers and charitable foundations are active in social networks. On their pages they report about the following:

• How the work plan has been implemented 
•What kind of events were held recently, and other information.

Basically, they submit information about the help provided.

  

 

 

 

 

  

But there are more charity ways  online.

Everyone remembers  Ice Bucket Challenge charity flash mob that blew up the Internet. 

Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world poured ice water itself, the whole process was recoded on camera and then uploaded to the Internet calling others friends to do the same. This way they tried to draw the world's attention to ALS, which is a terminal illness. Driven by the viral effect and the participation of Hollywood stars and Silicon Valley, donations have reached almost 80 million dollars during the first few weeks. Number of references of this flash mob on Twitter is correlated with the amount of donations made to the ALS fund. Ice Bucket Challenge reached its highest when Justin Timberlake did it. A few days later, Mark Zuckerberg did it too and started a chain reaction that lasted for a few days.

 

Another example

 Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder has launched a new project  in  UK  a social network "TPO". The purpose of the project is to help people to make donations to charities and elsewhere they want to.

As Jimmy Wales noted in an interview with Business Insider «It looks more  like Twitter, than Facebook». Here you can see how  the interface page  like at the  example of his profile. 

 

On TPO, as on any other social network, you can send personal statuses, follow your friends, send private messages, create groups, but besides that TPO gives an opportunity to send money directly to a particular fund or charity. However, unlike other well-known similar projects, such as Kickstarter, TPO does not have any transaction fees.

And, of course, I really like the next example

The first charitable social network in Russia. 

 The open version of an  application, allowing users  to donate money to charities through posting photos,  is now  available in AppStore. The project  called Mainpeople  has been  tested for three months. It is a charitable social network, that operates on the principle of Instagram: users can post pictures, like and comment on their  friends' post.

The publication of each new picture is a donation of 1$ and the account’s owner chooses the charitable foundation the money goes to. The mechanism is that if other users like the picture, they click «I'm with you» and thus  donate $ 1 to the selected organization. The number of clicks per person is unlimited and the amount of donations can  increase endlessly.

"We believe that you don't need to be rich and famous to do good. You also don't need to focus on other people's problems and get to the heart of their situations every day of your life. There are people who do it professionally. We can help them doing our daily routines. For example, uploading photos of a trip or discussing today's traffic", the creators of the project say

 

And I want us to say:

Let us think not only about business!

Let us try to make the time spent on social    networks benefit the world we live in!

And the world will become a little kinder!

 

As corny as it may sound....