The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee as established a Haiti Relief Fund:

While details are still unfolding about the devastation in the aftermath of the recent Haitian earthquake, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee has established the Haiti Earthquake Response Fund to support relief efforts. Donations of any size can be made online at www.cfmt.org or by mail to The Community Foundation, PO Box 440225, Nashville, TN 37244.

Grants from the Haiti Earthquake Response Fund of The Community Foundation will be made to nonprofits and aid groups for response, clean-up, and restoration efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee is poised to react when disaster strikes in the Middle Tennessee region or around the world and has systems in place to simplify and expedite the process of helping people in need. The Foundation’s focus during a time of disaster is to connect generosity with need.

For more information, call The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee at 615-321-4939, or toll free at 888-540-5200. To contribute to the Haiti Earthquake Response Fund, give online at www.cfmt.org or by mail to The Community Foundation, P.O. Box 440225, Nashville, TN 37244.

The America Red Cross is also accepting funds for Haiti relief. Thus far, they have raised $3 million via text message for victims of the earthquake.

The Examiner, a Web site that monitors local news and trends posted an article on how the Community Foundation successfully utilized twitter in a recent campaign to giveaway 1k to a local nonprofit:

During the 10-week period, The Community Foundation invited people to follow their organization on Twitter and tweet about their favorite local nonprofits. They spread the word through Twitter, Facebook, GivingMatters.com, e-mail communication and help of local partners including CoolPeopleCare.org and radio station Lightning 100. Nancy VanReece, executive director of The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, said she heard about the contest through an e-mail blast.

VanReece noted that her organization decided early on that they would participate the first week and the seventh week since the contest was long. They did not want their followers to become burned out on their requests to participate. “Because the grand prize opportunity was not announced until that eighth week we were able to put all our efforts on that opportunity without what I would call tweet burn,” VanReece said. “We used HootSuite to schedule our requests at different times of day and used a pattern of every other day toward the end. With some research, I was able to tell when the tweets were trending and sent requests out at those times. In the last 24 hours, we sent direct messages to any follower that had sent a direct message to us in the last year and asked them to RT to help us win. We also included instructions on our Facebook Page, our Facebook Cause and our E-Newsletter – all in the last 48 hours of the contest. I really think that that hat-trick kept us in the top five for the drawing.”

Social Media for Social Good in Nashville
Join Social Media Club Nashville and panelist from several local community and non-profit organizations to explore their use of social media and its impact in promoting community services, recruiting volunteers, and reaching fundraising goals.Wednesday July 15th from 6pm to 8pm at Center for Nonprofit Management in Metro Center
(44 Vantage Way, Suite 230 Nashville, TN 37228)
This event is FREE to attend; however, space is limited to the first seventy reservations. Please RSVP to socialmediaclubnashville@gmail.com

Below is a list of the panelists for the program and resources to connect with them online:

Sam Davidson- CoolPeopleCare, Inc.
Website: http://www.coolpeoplecare.org/
Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/coolpeoplecare
Twitter: http://twitter.com/coolpeoplecare
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/coolpeoplecare

Corinne Ciocia- Center for Nonprofit Management
Website: http://www.cnm.org/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cnmmidtn
Blog: http://blog.cnm.org/

Jim Bartoo- Nashville Zoo
Website: http://www.nashvillezoo.org/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nashville-Zoo/97534520621
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NashvilleZoo and https://twitter.com/Gumu_at_the_Zoo
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/nashvillezoo

Kallie Bienvenu- The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
Website: www.cfmt.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nashville-TN/The-Community-Foundation-of-Middle-Tennessee/55356141327
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cfmt

About Social Media Club Nashville:
Social Media Club Nashville is part of an international network of community groups that host conversations that explore key issues facing our society as technologies transform the way we connect, communicate, collaborate and relate to each other. The Club’s primary mission is to promote media literacy, promote standard technologies, encourage ethical behavior and share best practices.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40982994791&ref=mf
Wiki: http://socialmediaclub.pbwiki.com/Nashville%2C-TN
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SMCNash
*If you blog, shoot video, take photos, tweet, etc, please use #smcnash as your tag

For more information about Social Media Club Nashville programs and events, please contact
Jessica Murray at jessicarmurray@gmail.com or Georgia Cross at georgia.cross@hotmail.com.

Here is the story on the Twitter competition and last week’s winner: