# How big is your Facebook group?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/02/28/how-big-your-facebook-group/
- Published: 2008-02-28T19:40:53+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

On the back page of Third Sector magazine this week, Matthew Little pointed out that Facebook is turning out to be “a very lonely frontier” for some organisations in the charity sector. He cites the example of the Directory of Social Change. Despite the fact that it runs 300 training courses for thousands of voluntary sector staff each year, its two Facebook groups ‘Grants not Contracts‘ and ‘Are small charities an endangered species?‘ have so far attracted just one member each (the same DSC staff member in fact). Which suggests it’s time to have a quick look around to see just how many people some of the sector’s Facebook groups have actually attracted and/or retained, some nine months or so after Facebook exploded into many people’s awareness in the UK. I’ve chosen some of the groups that I’m a member of, which include a few US groups, and the membership figures were accurate as of a few minutes ago. I have excluded charities’ Facebook groups: this is a list of suppliers, trade publications and other support elements of the voluntary sector. So the list is illustrative only, and not comprehensive. Advertisement 1. Everyclick (674 members) 2. The Third Sector PR and Communications network (519 members) 3. do-it.org.uk: Volunteering made easy (438 members) 4. UK Fundraising (361 members) 5. Direct Dialogue Fundraising (320 members) 6. Fundraisers Network (192 members) 7. I worked for Dialogue Direct (186 members) 8. Convio [USA] (146 members) 9. acevo – third sector leaders (95 members) 10. VolResource (93 members) 11. Intelligent Giving (86 members) 12. Professional Fundraising magazine (79 members) 13. The Chronicle of Philanthropy [USA] (68 members) 14. Justgiving (58 members) 15. Fundraising Training – The Bill Bruty Fan Club (41 members) 16. Institute of Fundraising South East Group (33 members) 17.