Causes On Facebook Turns 1

by Allison Fine on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 10:40

The Causes application on Facebook celebrated its one-year anniversary last week. I had a chance to catch up with Joe Green and Sean Parker, the founders of Causes (previously known as Project Agape), this week at the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy conference.

They told me that in the first year Causes registered 12 million users who are now supporting more than 80,000 non-profit causes worldwide. $2.5 million has been raised for about 20,000 nonprofits. Facebook reports 60,000 daily users of the application. They also launched Causes on MySpace a few months ago, and about 25,000 people are using Causes on that platform.

Pretty impressive first year, guys!

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5 Jun 2008
Maya Enista

Congratulations Joe, Sean, Susan, Chris, Keith, Kevin, Kristjan, Jill, Tam, Jimmy and everyone else – it’s been a pleasure working with you for the past year, and we’re looking forward to many more!

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