1. Procedure

2. Mayoral and Gubernatorial Declarations

3. Media Coverage

4. Philanthropic Impact

5. Ethical Issues

6. Related Holidays

7. References

Social Media Giving Day is an online holiday created by St. Louis-based technology and social philanthropy organization Givver.com.^[1]{{Better source|date=June 2017}} Givver.com was beta tested with the Obama for America campaign in 2012.^[1] Givver spent 5 months working with elected officials around the country, charitable organizations, and social media influencers to promote the day as a way to use social media for social good and to leverage social media as a means to hashtag "give" to their favorite charity or cause.^[2] Governors and Mayors around America declared July 15 "Social Media Giving Day". The online holiday was trail-blazed by the founder of Givver, Chris Sommers.^[3]{{Better source|date=June 2017}} The inaugural celebration of Social Media Giving Day occurred on July 15, 2013.^[3][1] This day was marked as the first social media giving day in the U.S. Furthermore, July 15 is also significant because it happens to be the same day Twitter was launched.^[4]{{Better source|date=June 2017}} Social Media Giving Day can help reach new donors and help bring in more money to different organizations trying to better their communities.

Procedure

Using Twitter, a donor may send a tweet with the hashtag "Give" along with the name of their preferred charity. The tweet also includes the dollar amount desired by the sender. One limitation is that the charitable organization must be on Givver's approved list. ^[5] However, once an organization is on the approved list, they can use social media to diversify the organizations revenue.

Mayoral and Gubernatorial Declarations

Mayoral and gubernatorial declarations establishing July 15 as Social Media Giving Day have been made by Governor Jay Nixon (Missouri), Mayor John Sorey (Naples, FL), Mayor Buddy Dyer (Orlando, FL), Mayor Nancy McFarlane (Raleigh, NC), Mayor Mark Mallory (Cincinnati, OH), Mayor Tom Barrett (politician) (Milwaukee, WI), Mayor Jacques Roy (mayor) (Alexandria, LA), Mayor Sam Kooiker (Rapid City, SD), Mayor Francis Slay (St. Louis, MO), Mayor Dan Snarr (Murray, UT) and the entire City Council in Pittsburgh, PA.^[4] Social Media Giving Day has therefore not been fully recognized nationally yet.

Media Coverage

The inaugural Social Media Giving Day was covered in Forbes,^[10]{{Better source|date=June 2017}}^[1] Techli, the St. Louis Business Journal,^[12] Social Media Explorer,^[4]{{Better source|date=June 2017}} Fox 2 St. Louis^[2] and various other national and local news outlets.

Philanthropic Impact

According to data obtained in 2013, 47 percent of Americans learn about causes through social media.^[6]{{Better source|date=June 2017}} Additionally, 59% of Generation Z are willing to donate to charity because of social media.^[7] On July 15, 2013, Givver saw a 30 percent increase in the number of donors alone. Social Media Giving Day, therefore, serves as an opportunity for various political campaigns, non-profit organizations, and charity organizations to appeal to social media's users to donate towards their causes. These causes include animals, children, health and wellness, human rights, disaster relief, poverty and hunger. The non-profits that benefited from this holiday have increased ten-fold.^[8] This was done through various social media giving tools such as Giver.com, Fundly.com, Snowball.com, SocialFund.org and GoFundMe.com.^[9]{{Better source|date=June 2017}}^[4]{{Better source|date=June 2017}}

Ethical Issues

Many experts have warned that scams could take place during the holiday that can ultimately jeopardize the user's account on Twitter.^[10] Such scams, could be used to steal private information from the user through different claims for a "beneficial cause", such as profile passwords, credit card accounts, etc.^[10]{{Better source|date=June 2017}} This information is acquired by Givver when signing members up to their online database. Part of this member sign-up includes the storing of credit card information on the platform. ^[11]

Related Holidays

References

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