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Title: Limited 'face' time: most donors on Facebook go unthanked by charities.
Author: Mark Hrywna
Publication: The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 15, 2008
Publisher: NPT Publishing Group, Inc.
Volume: 22 Issue: 16 Page: 23(3)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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Technology is fast. At any second a GPS unit can track your location and text messages can be sent between continents. Emails packed with data can be received within minutes, if not seconds.
So what takes so long for nonprofits to acknowledge an online donation through the Causes application on Facebook?
The answers vary, but in most cases, nonprofits are only just starting to develop strategies for how to handle Causes donations via Facebook, others are beginning to direct some resources to it, and still others have yet to realize they're receiving donations.
