It's the time of year that you can use the web to keep giving.  From yarn bombing to twitter….fun can help you move hearts with instagram to arts dialogue, from business models to distractions…..culture is being moved by technology, participatory engagement, to social enterprise…..consumer electronics, ipads, androids, swivl, snapshots, and small recordings are allowing for a broader base of donors to become collaborators with public arts organizations and charities.  You can begin with a gift by click today or a check in the mail before the new year.  Here's some ideas and innovations …apps, reports, newsfeeds, databases, and widgets.  Watch the Pew Video on Art Beat…or use your handheld …it's a new world of giving.

You can find causes like hearing aids for friends who have forgotten to budget for them or personal peeves like healthy anger.

All over the globe you can find small charities that make a difference to children, to adults, to seniors, to refugees or to people with chronic pain or difficulties that will need a hand up.

Whether you are Mozilla or Independent Radio looking for a text donation, a donor advised gift, a bequeathed fund or an old car, cars 4 causes to new widgets, development departments, your mailbox are ready for clicks, envelopes, digital forms, and phone calls.

It's year end and it's time for mini campaigns for social justice, cleaning up a riverbank or setting up an art room, buying instruments or bringing support and products to families in need, and children who need to go back to school.

Board members are searching Linked in for new allies.  Associations are getting ready for member drives and tradeshows.  2016 is almost here.

For new ideas for your giving:

1. You can ask if your favorite charity has a website, a mailer, an annual report or look them up on Guidestar or Charity Navigators.
2. You can find them in press releases to find out who they impact and some of their events.
3. You can look for a social media campaign or a newsletter or photo post on pinterest or find a twitter feed or blog.
4. You can read about their mission, their staff, their service area, or their achievements.
5. You can read about them or put a comment into "Great Nonprofits.org"
6. You could volunteer to help them raise funds or grow their community outreach in 2016-2017.
7. You can add a testimonial to an email and send it to their webmaster.

Whether learning about an agency, adding your gift, your time, your words and deeds, the world will be richer.  Mozilla or another agency will use your contribution to move ahead on a teaching guide, a program or a service.  Your generous gift will help them get back to work in the new year, renewed, appreciated and supported.  It's these gifts of love that help the Marin Community Action Fund to the programs they sponsor to operate and serve many needs from chronic health issues to daily needs, from annual and seasonal needs to receiving support getting counseling or medication.  From Actors Fund to CAM, from Media Access to SAG Book Pals, from Kidney Transplants, to school arts programs and before and after school childcare…..they need your help, dollars, volunteer time, matched grants, phone calls, copywriting, even office work.  The web can help you volunteer or make a last minute debit that will make someone's day or make the bridge to self-sufficiency or enrichment.

Volunteer Centers:

http://www.thevolunteercenter.net/

Seniors:

http://www.whistlestop.org/

New Technology to help in San Bernardino:

https://app.mobilecause.com/vf/SBUnited

STEM/STEAM and Health Programs:

www.waterbuddy.org

Scholarships for Enrichment and before and after school programs:

http://www.kidsfirst.la/

Giving a Car as a gift or a Van:

http://www.cars4causes.net/supported-charities

Pacifica Radio:

http://kpfk.org/

Marin Community Action

http://camarin.org/

Sign Up For Cam-o-Gram

Community Action Marin - Kidney Community Education

https://camarin.org/safety-net/kidney-community-education.html

kce@camarin.org

Finding out about Arts Integration:

http://artsed411.org/

Giving through a program or a widget:

http://dafdirect.org/

Giving Blood:

http://www.redcross.org/blood

Healthy Anger:

http://healthyanger.net/

Year end giving reports:

https://www.blackbaud.com/files/resources/downloads/2012.CharitableGivingReport.pdf

California Cultural Database:

http://www.culturaldata.org/

Match funds for arts organizations and government programs:

http://www.californiavolunteers.org/index.php/Grants/

http://www.elevationweb.org/1for1-match/

http://www.neh.gov/grants/match-your-project

What are matching funds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_funds

Donors Choose:

http://www.donorschoose.org/

Find a new way to match or ask an old program be reinstituted:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-way-of-greater-los-angeles-announces-matching-fund-launched-by-two-local-philanthropists-62203562.html

Ida's for childcare help:

http://www.gnoinfo.com/united-way-ida-program-matching-savings-account-home-or-vehicle-purchase-business-assistance-education-assistance/