Fundraising enters online Virtual Worlds
July 27th, 2006 at 11:31pm Under fundraising
3D virtual worlds have been around for a long time, and are only starting to enter into the mainstream of online users. Second Life is one of the most successful, and as more people are joining - more than 200,000 so far - they are bringing more and more ideas with them from the “real world”. Tom Watson of ChangingOurWorld.com writes about how philanthropy has now appeared in Second Life.
Philanthropy, it turns out, is sweeping the world’s largest virtual 3D community and big-name organizations like the American Cancer Society, TechSoup, Global Kids, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society are getting involved, creating virtual “chapters” and holding online fundraising events.
Read Tom’s article: Second Life fundraising: Philanthropy dips its toe into Virtual Worlds
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