Shane Snow is a writer and entrepreneur in New York City, and founder of the online printing  site PrintingChoice.com. A graduate in digital media at Columbia Journalism School, he’s fascinated with all things geeky, particularly social media and shiny gadgets he’ll never afford. He blogs at TelevisionSky.org and tweets at @shanesnow.

Social good is one of those terms people use in a vacuum; it’s a concept, an idea, a satellite around the established norms of traditional fundraising and charitable giving. But social good and online giving are two quickly growing fields producing some very real results.

The infographic below tries to put social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline (although no-less-chartiable) counterparts.

Read on for a glimpse at how social good fits into the online universe.

This post was brought to you by the groundbreaking Social Good Summit. On September 20, as global leaders head to New York for United Nations Week — including a historic summit on global issues known as the “Millennium Development Goals” (MDGs) and the annual General Assembly — Mashable, 92nd Street Y and the UN Foundation will bring together leaders from the digital industry, policy and media worlds to focus on how technology and social networks can play a leading role in addressing the world’s most intractable problems.

Date: Monday, September 20, 2010
Time: 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. ET
Location: 92nd Street Y, New York City