Social Actions Roundup7 - Get Your Social Actions News On Twitter! (@SocialActions)

Want to know the secret source where we get the majority of our platform news and updates? From Twitter! The Social Actions Twitter account is combined feed of about 30 action platform blogs. On Twitter? - get the news here! Not on Twitter? Subscribe to the combined RSS feed here!

Platform News and Updates:

ThePoint launches blog focused on identifying breaking opportunities for e-activism: http://is.gd/298Z

David Cohn of Spot.us shares close-to-finished design (and it's hot!) - http://is.gd/2gUD

Fundable.com partners with Prosper. From the Fundable.com e-Newsletter: "If you're not interested in using Fundable.com again, there are other options. Fundable has partnered with Prosper to offer you a peer-to-peer loan."

GlobalGiving Launches Back to School Program, which will be distribute funds amongst high-impact education projects around the world - http://www.globalgiving.com/backtoschool.html

Kiva.org lending teams grow from 0 to 400 in no time! http://kivanews.blogspot.com/2008/09/lending-teams-from-zero-to-400...

GiveForward Will Launch $100 Fund Race this coming Monday - http://www.giveforward.org/blog/win-100-in-the-giveforward-fund-race

Articles and Relevant News:

Lucy Bernholz of Philanthropy 2173 covers the Donation Dashboard, which enables collaborative filtering for philanthropic opportunities. Also check out these awesome visualizations from Philanthropy 2173 - Geologic Eras of Philanthropy and the Evolution of Philanthropy Markets.

Ethan Austin’s Super-Awesome Strategic Fundraising Model: a modestly named guide to developing a successful online fundraising campaign - http://is.gd/2gUq

Check out the ChangeMakers.net Competitions - Seeking Financial Solutions for All and the Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition - ( hat tip - Idealist post)

From OnPhilanthropy: "The Coming Paradigm Shift in Philanthropy: It's Not About the Money" (by Susan Raymond, Ph.D.) - http://www.onphilanthropy.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7591

Beth Lingard of FirstGiving Shares Fundraising Tips and Tricks: Make the Most of your Personal Fundraising Page - http://www.onlinefundraisingblog.com/2008/09/fundraising-tips-and-t...

MediaShift covers "particapatory philanthropy" - ChangeMakers, IdeaBlob, and Knight News Challenge Garage - http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/08/participatory-philanthropy-par.html (Hat-tip - Tactical Philanthropy)

In response to Hurrican Gustav, Allison Fine of Personal Democracy Forum asks the question - "Really, Give to the Red Cross?" Similar post from GiveWell - The case against disaster relief Begs the question of how we can best find and fund P2P relief projects and on-the-ground orgs during disasters.

Beth Kanter shares her predictions about the Future of Social Media and Fundraising - http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/09/i-got-a-request.html

"The Real Costs of Online Fundraising" by Steve Kehrli, development director at PETA. (Hat-tip - TheAgitator)

Are you going to Open Sustainability Camp? What about Social Capital Markets?

Interesting Discoveries & Sites to Watch:

GlobeFunder, CommunityLend, Innocentive (Hat-tip - PhilanthroMedia), 1% For The Planet , Prosper 3rd Party Apps

New and NoteWorthy Campaigns:

New American Dream: Break the Bottled Water Habit Pledge - http://water.newdream.org/ (uses ForwardTrack!)

ThePoint: Ask for it Green - http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/ask-for-it-green

DonorsChoose.org: ESL Teacher asks for help acquiring copies of my favorite graphic novel, Kingdom Come - http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=57342&zone=0

Social Actions News:

Thanks to a tip from Margaret M. Egan, Social Actions nominated the Related Ways to Take Action Widget for the 2008 Forrester Awards, in the Social Impact Category. Your vote could help us win it!

We're getting ready to add Nabuur, VolunteerMatch and all bookmarks tagged "TakeAction" on Delicious into the Social Actions Search Engine, Open API, and web apps. Are you ready?

Social Actions is hosting or part of numerous event in New York and Washington, DC in the second half of September. Please join us! - http://blog.socialactions.com/events

Social Actions Asks - What's Your Peer-to-Peer Social Change Success Story? - http://is.gd/2gDf

Each week, Social Actions community members post links and news about online social activism to the Social Actions Round Up group. The following round-up is a summary of the links that surfaced in the last 7 days.