Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Can I Sit With You? Can I Sit With You? Photo by Dmason.

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JUNE 15, 2007

The program ended with a South African woman named Mama G, who thanked AJWS and its supporters for helping fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. Regards, Fran 16 Jun 2007 Yahoouj Really good work about this website was done. It was an amazing event. And she sang a thank you song that was moving and beautiful and upbeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

" But to really be a platform for individuals, where the participants decide how to do things, where the successful organizations are only those that help residents succeed, where feedback loops are tight, fast, and respected - these are new ways for philanthropic institutions to act. And, I got an instant response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. And if Web 2.0 generators.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Activist, journalist, and singer, Marisa Handler , chronicles her activist journey, and the role spirituality played in it, in her 2007 memoir, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. Certainly in terms of my own activism, it has really helped open my eyes. A lot of it was coming from a place of compassion, and wanting to help.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I am an Angelina Jolie fan, so after watching The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa on MTV, I wanted to read his book. About a year ago I was at a party at a friend's house, I wasn't feeling very social, so I went into the kitchen to see if I could help with anything. End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Advancing Human Rights and Conservation Although Benetech was founded in the accessibility field, our success in equilibrium change is not limited to helping people with disabilities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. What will.especially if folks hear this, and say, "Oh, I want to start a circle" help them have a successful one? This past March, two different groups went to Africa.

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JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

And just last week, GiveMN , a new online web site that hopes to encourage more Minnesotans to give and help create a stronger nonprofit community for Minnesota, raised over $14 million dollars in 24 hours using a multi-channel campaign. More than $550,000 was raised last March. . Donors As Program Partners Not Just Check Writers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

In addition to supplying financial support, sponsors are asked to exchange letters each month with the woman they are helping. Denise of the Denise in Africa blog visited one of the program's facilities in Kigali. Kennedy New Frontier Award in 2007. Sissel of the Sissel Byington Photography blog sponsors a women each year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

from the Campaign Monitor blog takes us through a detailed makeover of an email newsletter to help illustrate best practices for email design, layout and construction. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. Extreme Email Makeover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

These blogs raised $350,000 to pay rangers salaries and help save mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park. Says Paula, “Two years later, have over 70 blogs , donations have risen 4 fold, as has website visitation. One came to the conclusion that social media was a waste of time; the other talked.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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