The Causes [1] application on Facebook [2] 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 [3] 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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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!