Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Details about the project have been hard to come by over the past few months, but here’s what we know: What. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. No, I'm not blogging on the plane!

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Responses were received from 2,383 individuals in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Face-to-face fundraising is mentioned most frequently by respondents from the Netherlands, major donor cultivation is cited by respondents from Canada, India, and the U.K.,

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# After giving Jumo some basic details and your interests the site lets you start picking projects that you are interested in.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

I myself was also almost a human trafficking victim for the purpose of forced marriage in India. In 2008, Aashika graduated from the University of California, Berkeley; she is now working on her Masters in Philosophy in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK where she’s a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. Her name is Solame.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

I had the chance to interview Belinda Lang, American Express Vice President, Consumer Marketing Strategy, and who was involved with their very inspiring 2008 Members Project. I interviewed her Nov 5, 2008 at our Marketing and Online Communities Conference. AMEX gave away $2.5m AMEX gave away $2.5m

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