My friend Aaron shared an email about this today - UNICEF Ireland are shooting a TV commercial and are looking for members of the public to participate.

This October, UNICEF Ireland, will be asking every adult to give just One Euro for child survival.

For your chance to be part of their TV ad, all you need to do is shoot a short video with your webcam, and upload it to their website.

Find all the details here.

Here is a great example of an alternative way to celebrate your centenary - with a flash mob.

I noticed an article at Ragan.com about the Swedish Medical Centre in Seattle celebrating the 100th anniversary of the non-profit healthcare service (funded by Swedish immigrants some 100 years ago).

On the Seattle hospital’s anniversary, employees were invited to gather for a group birthday photo and then some of the employees started to dance to Abba's 'Dancing Queen'. At the timeof writing this article the video on YouTube has had 18,851 views.

You will also find the hospital online:

On a microsite celebrating the 100th anniversary of the hospital - http://www.swedish100.org/our-first-100-years

On Twitter - http://twitter.com/swedish

On Facebook for the hospital - http://www.facebook.com/swedishmedicalcenter

On Facebook for with a lovely page celebrating the babies born at the hospital - http://www.facebook.com/swedishbabies

Contributions continue to pour in for relief efforts in Haiti. Six days after the massive earthquake struck, donors have contributed more than $210-million to major U.S. relief groups, a Chronicle tally finds.

The pace of giving for Haiti is running ahead of the amount donated in the same period after the Asian tsunamis in 2004, but slower than the outpouring of gifts after the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

In the six days after the flooding started in New Orleans, Americans gave at least $457-million for relief efforts. In the nine days after the Asian tsunamis, major U.S. relief groups raised $163-million.

Many groups are raising large sums for relief efforts in Haiti online and through text messages. By Monday, the American Red Cross had received more than $21-million through its campaign to encourage $10 gifts through texts.

That’s a record for the group in terms of text messages. In contrast, it raised $200,000 from texts during the 2008 hurricane season.

Over all, the Red Cross had raised $112-million through Monday evening.

I recently covered different ways that social media is being used at times of crisis on my main blog: http://www.krishnade.com/blog/2010/haiti

If you are a non profit have you considered text donations?

There are many advantages to 'mobile giving' and is a very fast way for donors to make a donation - htere is no need to write a cheque, make a phone call or log onto your computer.

Your call to action be it on a website or in the main stream media can be responded to immediately.

So if you are working with a non profit, perhaps you could encourage them to consider text giving to support their cause?

TechCrunch has a list of the different ways you can donate via text messaging if you are in the US: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/18/mobile-giving-haiti-20-million

I recently write about a number of social media platforms being used as part of a communications plan in times of crisis.

Today I noted that Laura Fitton was posting about eBay being used to help with fundraising for the Haiti earthquake.

As a vendor you can sell items donating 10-100% of your final sales price using eBay Giving Works.

Some of the non profits using eBay Giving Works include the American Red Cross, Unicef, Save the Children, Oxfam and Habitat for Humanity.

So if you work with a non profit why not check out eBay Giving Works and is you are looking to support a cause why not head on over and explore what products are on offer so that even your regular purchase could help a non-profit ot of course in the case of Haiti, support the relief effort.