Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits

Causes, a Facebook and MySpace application that promotes viral donations of time and money to charities and nonprofits, launched a year ago. They've now released statistics today on their usage and donation numbers for that first year.

The company says they've registered 12 million users who are now supporting more than 80,000 non-profit causes worldwide. $2.5 million has been raised for 19,445 different 501(c)(3) charitable organizations. Facebook reports 60,000 daily users of the application, and MySpace reports 25,000.

Causes was founded by Joe Green and Sean Parker. Sean, a partner at Founders Fund, previously co-founded Napster, was the founding President of Facebook, and co-founded the recently acquired Plaxo. His goal with Causes, he told me last year when the company was called Project Agape, is to apply the same ideas around virality that worked so well on his previous projects to the idea of altruism and activism.

So far, so good.