After a lot of great feedback and help from you, our readers, I'd like to introduce two main new initiatives: #Teams4Good and "Promotion for Donation."
Looking for Team Leaders - #Teams4Good
Through the GlobalGiving platform, we are going to set up a competition between 10 teams to see who can raise the most money for the Summer of Social Good fund. If you believe in the Summer of Social Good and feel you can motivate your base to come out ahead, then this competition is for you. Apply to be a Fundraising Team Leader here: http://bit.ly/sosg-leader and on Friday we'll announce the teams who will then have one month to raise as much money as possible for the charitable cause.
The Prize: Winners will have a choice between:
- 2 VIP tickets and $500 reimbursement for travel expenses to the August 28th Social Good Conference in NYC
*or*
- A 32GB iPod Touch
*Winning team must raise minimum of $5,000 to be eligible for prize.
Promotion for Donation - Special One Week Promotion
This week, we are promoting individuals and companies who donate more than $20 in a blog post and with retweets. In either of the cases below, please forward your email receipt of the donation to socialgood (at) mashable |dot| com to receive promotion.
$20 - $99 Donation: Tweet that you've donated and @socialgood will retweet you. Mashable will also include your avatar and link to your Twitter account (or Facebook Fan Page or LinkedIn profile) on Friday's Post.
* Be sure to include your profile URL you'd like us to promote in your email
$100+ Donation: Tweet that you've donated and @socialgood will retweet you. Mashable will also include your avatar and link to your Twitter account (or Facebook Fan Page or LinkedIn profile) on Friday's Post. In addition, you'll receive prominent placement on the post and you can include up to 3 social profile URLs or links you are looking to promote.
* Be sure to include your profile URLs and/or promotional links you'd like us to promote in your email
$2,000 Donation: In addition to the above, Mashable will also give you 1 week of 125x125 advertising to be used any time between now and December 31st, 2009 (subject to availability).
* Be sure to include your profile URLs and/or promotional links you'd like us to promote in your email
$4,000 Donation: In addition to the above, Mashable will also give you 1 MONTH of 125x125 advertising to be used any time between now and December 31st, 2009 (subject to availability).
* Be sure to include your profile URLs and/or promotional links you'd like us to promote in your email
Corporate Donation Matching and Prize Donations: We need your help. Contact us to get involved. There are plenty of great opportunities available.
Thanks to the Summer of Social Good Sponsors
Thanks to Zappos and MailChimp for sponsoring the Summer of Social Good. Their generous sponsorship covers the campaign and event costs, so that 100% of your donations and ticket sales go to the fund.
We make it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. Unlike some of our competitors, we don't 'dumb things down.' We take extremely powerful tools that sophisticated marketers use (like segmentation, a/b testing, and ROI tracking), and we make them accessible to anyone."
Thanks to our Summer of Social Good Partners
Thanks to the following partners for lending their generous support to the Summer of Social Good.
