Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media:
TweetsGiving 2009If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to (Read More)
Reuters:
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's benchmark Nikkei share average fell 1.3 percent to a four-month closing low on Thursday, with the nation's biggest bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group sliding after announcing a massive fundraising. (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
EnCap Investments LP is plotting its eighth fund and may need a placement agent to help it tap international investors. David Miller, a co-founder of the Houston based firm, told Buyouts that EnCap will start raising the fund (Read More)
Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech:
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of November 16th). You can join the conversations in the comments (Read More)
CNN:
Yes, I'm one of those "twilight people." I've become increasingly aware of how that makes me look and I simply don't care. I fell in love with a love story and I've made hundreds of online friends that share my love for this (Read More)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media:
Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPianaLast week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. We've spent the last 18 months focused on how social media can support communica (Read More)
Reuters Video: Business:
Nov 10 - China's largest wind power generator, Longyuan, hopes to double its fundraising in a Hong Kong IPO to $1.3 billion due to strong demand.
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Reuters: Private Equity:
NEW DELHI, Nov 9 (Reuters) - India's Kingfisher Airlines
intends to use the major portion of its planned
fundraising to retire debt and reduce its interest burden, its
chairman said on Monday.
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Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Kingfisher Airlines intends to use the major portion of its planned fundraising to retire debt and reduce its interest burden, its chairman said on Monday.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media:
Photo by Billie HaraLate last night (or early this morning), Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today. The email encouraged MySpace users of (Read More)
Reuters: Deals:
LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity investors are buying fund positions in the secondary market as a cheap alternative to new investments, putting added pressure on an already tough fundraising climate for buyout firms.
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PND - Philanthropy News Digest:
The report from the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and the Alban Institute found that nearly 37 percent of congregations saw an increase in fundraising levels during the first half of 2009, compared to 2008.... (Read More)
PND - Philanthropy News Digest:
According to an annual survey of the nation's largest fundraising organizations, giving to the top 400 groups will decline this year by a median of 9 percent, and the outlook for 2010 is also gloomy.... (Read More)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media:
Yesterday, Twitter announced its first corporate social responsibility effort on its blog:We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking longterm about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the r (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
More than a year after one of the hedge fund industry's best known managers departed Goldman Sachs, Mark Carhart re-emerged at a hedge fund conference and told Reuters the big news: he is coming back. You heard it here first. (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A Cosmen-led consortium said on
Friday it had decided not to make a takeover offer for National
Express but would support an equity fundraising by
British bus and train operator.
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Reuters: Mergers News:
PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Hype about theswine flu vaccines, pent-up demand for cash and a push by majordrugmakers to boost their flagging research pipelines hashelped lift biotechnology fund-raising 36 percent (Read More)
Submitted by egculbertson
from Google Reader:
We write a lot on this blog about the usefulness of public social networks like Facebook and Twitter as part of an organization’s network strategy, but it’s now becoming increasingly attractive to create a customized social n (Read More)