Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. Nobody wants ads ruining their game experience, so we make sure they don’t. Jumpstart for Young Children. The Wilderness Society. Feeding America. Mercy Corps.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 21, 2011

1] Education, religion, age, and income are some variables that are typically studied in relationship to formal giving and volunteering, informal or personal giving and volunteering, and secular and religious volunteering (Sundeen, Garcia, and Wang, 2007). [2] Sundeen et. t and Voluntary Sector Quarterly , 38(4): 929–955. ^ [2] Sundeen, R.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2011

This phenomenon was explained more fully in an article from the Catholic Sun in April 2007. As the years went on, my daughter grew into a toddler, and then a preschooler, as children tend to do, and with that she became hungry for my time and attention. It's not uncommon for many to only last two years before they burn themselves out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. In developing countries, nearly 11 million children die every year from preventable and treatable diseases, with 60% of these deaths from hunger and malnutrition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Since we launched in May 2007, 60 million people have started using Causes and over 250,000 causes have been created about every topic from halting global warming to supporting arts education. So, Michelle started a cause. Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

We are interested to hear your personal experiences, your thoughts on media stereotypes of certain religious and ethnic groups, and your views on how violent conflict has affected your life. These days women are having children later and some are not having children at all. Join us in exploring the world of self-expression.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

July 24, 2007. This integration has lead to lead to 7 Chapter groups communicating local news to their community and a national group with over 3,400 people sharing their stories and experiences. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. In the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Children of the Lodz Ghetto research project , participants work together with staff to do database research into the lives of thousands of Polish children during the Holocaust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Soon, Worcester received close to 6,000 emails from people around the country sharing their wartime experiences, stories of loved ones lost, and humbling appreciation for the project. In 2007, I met a young mother at Arlington Cemetery who requested we lay a wreath together on her son’s grave. “I have never forgotten that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She started her blog this year in May, 2007 because it was an opportunity for self-expression. This was a trip to bring urban young people to experience life in a rural area and to deliver school supplies for children who live in the province and are very poor. She has worked for that NGO for almost two years.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. The blog started with a conference experience. hour at the Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Support Children. Shaping Youth recommends supporting Age of Conversation to Benefit Variety, The Children's Charity. Can I Sit With You? Life in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Three examples: In the late 1980s, the Brooklyn Children's Museum created an exhibit called Send a Letter to Snoopy. As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters."

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2006

January 10-24, 2007, the artisans' communities will host eight Shunku Llacta volunteers for two weeks. Volunteers will work with community members on projects like building a community center, working with children in local elementary schools, and practicing sustainable forest management work. . Two partial scholarships are available.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Interested in seeing how we can help you design the perfect donor experience for your end-of-year appeal? Brother Wolf Animal Rescue was founded in 2007 to enhance the lives of companion animals and the people who love them. They offer experience, strength and hope to individuals as they identify and translate strengths to new arenas.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. low-income household with children. They provide warranties, support, and a user experience as good as the big computer makers. All models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus and also with system restore capabilities.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. 60) Search « Care2.com

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

It’s crucial to giving them the ability to make choices about their lives: when a woman has access to reproductive health care, she can make choices about her body and her future – not just about having children but also about staying in school, starting a business, or perhaps pursuing a role in local government.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

I've seen several museums experimenting with inviting visitors to take action, make promises, and join communities of intentionality (here's a post with examples from 2007 ), and the USHMM effort is particularly compelling for some specific design choices made in the development of the pledge wall. That's not to say it's perfect.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

As a Certified B Corporation, we prioritize our stakeholder promise to empower nonprofits by offering an exceptional giving experience without sacrificing an inclusive work environment or a sustainable future in the process. In 2007, Google became the first major company to reach carbon neutrality. Achieve carbon neutrality .

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. A museum that went back to its roots as curiosities cabinet, for very exclusive (and expensive) experiences.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Which leads, finally, to the experience of designing exhibits in Second Life. It's playful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. I'll share the experiment for my 53rd birthday - to spread happiness or happy birthday and the metric of retweets and clicks. I hope you'll join the fun.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. So we’ve created a way for people to get a sense of what their work is, and we call them the rebuilding lives experiences. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 7, 2011

who come from different Latin American nationalities, although they have varying races, cultures, language proficiencies, and experiences in the U.S. While Latinos have a variety of differences, they are often united by the many struggles they experience. Moving to the land of milk and cookies: Obesity among the children of immigrants.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

In 2007, Tim wrote an article called "In Praise of Coin-Operated Machines" in which he argues that coin-operated devices are a superior way to present exhibit-like content. Pop in your quarter, and you become the short-term owner of the experience. changes the perception of who "owns" art.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

Even though it’s been more than 30 years since Mandela gave his famous and memorable speech, his words about the children of today as our future community advisors and representatives are as powerful and accurate now as they were then. I noticed many children not in school and the large proportion of them were girls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. . The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. . That may seem like a small amount, it is important to remember that millions of people have played the game since its inception in 2007. For each click, 10 grains of rice is donated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

This claim is based in large part on the authors’ graphical representations of pre- and post-conflict mortality rates for a variety of countries, and on their critique of five surveys conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2000 and 2007.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

By sharing our photographs, by sharing our experiences, we alter the way people everywhere understand each other, and we might as well do it consciously and well." The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. And, their weapon is poetry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

While there she lived and worked with immigrants from throughout the US and Central America, and they shared their experiences. That experience awakened her desire to make immigration rights her life's work. That all changed after the massive and devastating raids in New Bedford, MA in early 2007.

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