Social Actions Roundup #17

Each week, Social Actions community members post links and news about online social activism - This round-up is a summary of the links that surfaced in the last 7 days. You can now share links and news for future Social Actions rounds ups in the Peer-to-Peer Social Change FriendFeed Room.

From the Social Actions Blog:

• How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012? - Peter Deitz shares awesome insights into the future of fund raising for nonprofits. Also, check out Beth Kanter's response (w/demographic analysis) here.
• The Future is Here: How to Take Action on Any Web Site - Imagine being able to highlight a phrase on any website and instantly find related ways to make a difference. Now you can, thanks to Marnie Webb !
• What if, for $25, you could help fund the next electric car? - Joe Solomon explores the possibility of mashing a Kiva.org model of peer-to-peer micro-lending for funding green and social entrepreneurs.
• Social Actions Welcomes Three New Action Sources: Celsias, DreamBank and BetterPlace.

From the Web-O-Sphere:

• New e-book: Occupation: Change the World - Attempts to answer the question, How do you make money and change the world? "We spent a year looking for the answers and have put all the stories, results and resources into this e-book." And it's free! (Hat-tip: Nathaniel Whittemore)
• New Report: e-campaigning Ideas 2008. Case studies of organizations using Advocacy Online's platform - including GreenPeace, PETA, and WorldVision. (Hat tip: Solidariti)
• Salvation Army flips the funnel and enables anyone to fund raise using a virtual red kennel. (Hat tip to Jeff Brooks of the DonorPowerBlog)

• JGooders.com launches - a new Jewish site that mashes donating, volunteering, and networking (More in Jerusalem Post) (Hat tip: Lucy Bernholz)

• Green startups merge: 3rdWhale acquires Happyfrog - HappyFrog will go forward as 3rd Whale with the aim of combining the happyfrog green business directory with 3rd Whale's "green on the go" mobile application (aka Luna)
• Social Innovation Camp announces the 6 winners for their December Camp. Very interesting projects were selected - like Vegsty or "Etsy for vegetables - This idea uses an online market place to bring together people who grow food in their home, allotment, small holding or farm with people who want to buy locally produced, natural, wholesome foods - just like Etsy has done with handmade craft goods."
• Are you following The Extraordinaries blog? Recent and awesome posts by Ben Rigby and Britt Bravo about mobile volunteering, virtual volunteering, and mobile for social change.

• Also worth checking out are the KnightPulse video interviews. Kristen Taylor, Knight Pulse's Community Manager, interviews Nicholas Reville of Miro, Sean Bonner, founder of Metblogs, and most recently, Ben Rigby of MobileVoter/The Extraordinaries.
• Didn't make it to the Social Entrepreneurship Summit in Toronto this week? Get a super comprehensive re-cap here. (Hat-tip: Nathaniel Whittemore) Also - Beth Kanter has excellent coverage of the ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania and Amy Sample Ward likewise offers a number of great posts on the Chain Reaction Conference in London.
• And last but not least - Echoing Green Fellowship applications are due December 1st, 2008 - Get started submitting your project here.