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Cambodia: Social Media, NGOs, and Social Change: Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two weeks ago, I took a homecoming trip to Cambodia with my family. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you already know that Cambodia is in my heart! When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know this first hand because my family and I have been honored to support the college education of two young Cambodia women through the Sharing Foundation ‘s education program. College tuition in Cambodia compared to the US is not that much, for many young Cambodian women it is beyond their grasp.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In my own work, raising money for Cambodia children , I passionately believe this to be true. Don’t ever think that you, as individual, have to top the Forbes 400 list – like my modest charity:water campaign , small actions add up to collective impact.

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” is 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award Finalist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This photo of my father holding my second book, “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” was from my October, 2012 visit to see my Dad. Katie Paine and I had done a whirlwind of book talks in NYC and I stayed on the East Coast briefly to say hello. He loved Rob Cottingham cartoons. She is a civil engineering major.

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Austin Nonprofit Bridges Digital and Education Divide in Cambodia - PR.com

AFP Blog

Press Release Austin Nonprofit Bridges Digital and Education Divide in Cambodia - PR.com : That’s something that Austin’s Windows of Wonder Institute, or WOWi, wants to end. A WOWi team, skilled in digital media creation and management, will go to Siem Reap for two weeks in February 2012 to begin training these students.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. Throughout the holiday season charity: water will be raising funds for their Cambodia campaign, which will help bring clean water to more than 15,000 homes in Cambodia.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] First things first: we clean water for kids.