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Network for Good is an online fundraising platform for charities and non-profit organizations. The company was founded in 2001 by America Online, Cisco Systems and Yahoo! and has processed over $1 billion in donations since inception. Network for Good charges between 3% to 5% transaction processing fee for donations, in addition to any subscription fees that the charity might incur. Transaction processing costs may be covered by the donor or by the nonprofit organization.〔John Schwartz, ("Marketing; After the Non-Revolution, Nonprofits Tiptoe Online ), ''The New York Times'', November 18, 2002. ("Set up as a nonprofit, the network tries to pick up transactional costs as part of its operating costs, giving donors the ability to pay those costs -- usually a few dollars -- themselves. Stephen Sigmund, a spokesman for the AOL Time Warner Foundation, said that 35 percent of donors now paid the transactional costs, too.")〕 ==History== Network for Good was set up in 2001 as a collaboration among America Online, Cisco Systems and Yahoo, replacing AOL's earlier charitable platform, Helping.org.〔Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, ("New Web site is central stop for giving" ), Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, November 20, 2001 .〕 By 2002 it was reporting receipts of about $1 million per month,〔 and by 2005 it reported about $30 million in annual collections.〔Elizabeth Bernstein, ("Cyber Giving" ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', December 30, 2005.〕 In 2005 Network for Good absorbed Groundspring, another online charitable platform that had been founded by the Tides Foundation in 1999.〔Sarah Duxbury, ("Groundspring to merge with Network for Good" ), ''San Francisco Business Times'', September 25, 2005.〕〔("Network for Good growing" ), ''Philanthropy Journal'', April 11, 2006.〕 In 2007 actor Kevin Bacon collaborated with Network for Good to set up his charitable project, SixDegrees.org, as a "celebrity-based" variant on Network for Good's existing model.〔Chelsea Greenwood, , ''Success'', June–July 2008 . ("Bacon discovered his idea pretty much already existed--in the form of Network for Good. "They already created this massive engine," he says. "At that time they were raising like $30 million a year; now, they're up to $50 million a year. They have over a million charities, and they have a very well-designed, easy-to-use site. So, in a way, I thought, 'Oh well, that's it. They're not going to want to have me involved in it.' On the contrary, they were like, 'Great, let's do it together.' So I was really lucky; it was kind of serendipitous.")〕〔Anna Stewart, ("Bacon gets celebrities to play charity game" ), ''Variety'', July 12, 2007.〕〔Ellen Lee, ("Social networking for good and Kevin Bacon" ), ''San Francisco Chronicle'', January 18, 2007.〕 In 2008 Network for Good acquired the ePhilanthropy Foundation,〔Jordan Weissmann, ("Network Counts On Collaboration For Growing Good" ), ''The Washington Post'', August 4, 2008.〕 an organization established in 2001 with the goal of providing training and promoting ethical practices in online fundraising〔Todd Cohen, ("Online Ethics" ), ''The NonProfit Times'', January 1, 2001 .〕 and that had later faced uncertainty after the departure of its founder.〔Maria E. Nobles, ("Out and back: future uncertain for ePhilanthropy foundation." ), ''The NonProfit Times'', November 1, 2007 .〕 As of February 2014, Network for Good reported that it had processed more than $1 billion in gifts since its inception.〔("1 Billion Reasons to Celebrate with Network for Good" ), Case Foundation, February 18, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Network for Good」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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