Charities Compete in Giving Challenge

October 15, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Case Foundation is sponsoring the second annual America’s Giving Challenge to encourage people to use their online networks to raise money for charity.

From now until November 6, participants — either individuals or nonprofit groups themselves — will compete to see who can attract the largest number of donations using the Causes application on Facebook.

The Case Foundation and the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovations, which put up $20,000 in prize money, will award a total of $170,000 in daily and overall cash prizes that range between $500 and $50,000.

During the inaugural competition in 2008, 71,000 donors contributed more than $1.8-million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations.

To get there: Go to http://www.americasgivingchallenge.com.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.