Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I don't want to you annoy you dear readers, but I can't pass up an opportunity to raise some money for the Sharing Foundation to help care for children in Cambodia. I am thinking of a series -- perhaps sharing one brief story every day or other day about the good work that the Sharing Foundation does by focusing on some of the children.

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MARCH 23, 2020

Food Lifeline, a member of Feeding America, is the largest food bank in Western Washington , distributing donated food to more than 300 food banks, shelters and meal programs throughout their region. They put out roughly 134,000 meals every day to hungry children, adults and seniors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel. If you need to pop in to an Internet cafe to connect every other day or so, please do… but my advice to you as social media manager and a fellow traveler is to leave the gadgets at home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

During the peak, it was ranked as the #1 nonprofit bestseller, #3 for general industries , #19 in the overall business segment , and # 108 overall in America ! I’m donating all of my profits to the Sharing Foundation , which helps to care for Cambodia’s children. We really appreciate everyone’s contributions to this success.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

They have a desire to pass wealth to charity vs.their children. Smith, also added that Boomers not only drive the economy with their purchasing power, recent studies show that Baby Boomers now boast the highest growth rate of entrepreneurship in America. 84% of internet users 50 and over use social networking sites.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today’s Q&A is with Barbara Newhouse, CEO of The Children’s Heart Foundation , where she is using her experience and lessons learned to create strengths from organizational challenges and rebuild a brand that staff, board, supporters, and volunteers can trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

I was in college studying pre-med, and I decided to spend a summer volunteering in Central America. Q: What is the best piece of advice you’ve received that has guided the way you lead? Q: What led you to working in the nonprofit sector? A: To be honest, it caught me completely off guard. A: “Set aside your ego.”

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

It’s free advice about how to build a give-back program into small business. The Gift Shop also adopted the family for Christmas, asking community members to donate toys for the children. Limitless Good launched a “Share a Smile, We’ll Share a Meal” campaign to donate to Feeding America.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ames will offer advice on meeting the challenges of using a video sharing site within a government agency in support of public communication. Morgan Jindrich of Consumers Union (the great organization that publishes Consumer Reports magazine), will tell the amazing inside story of the Cover America Tour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

any advice to offer him? Meanwhile, I am so proud that he put the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge widget on his blog. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge. I didn't even ask him.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! Some advice from the report: Find your Wired Fundraisers: Find the people that are passionate about your cause and reaching your target audience. Perhaps that advice should be more, "let your wired fundraisers find you." Then develop a relationship with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

I was curious about my colleagues, who work for nonprofits and are parents, what do they do to encourage their children's spirit of giving at a young age? Hans shared a story about how his wife donated her hair to Locks of Love which sparked a conversation with their 4 year old about children who are in need. s World Food Programme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Allison Fine offers some great advice for getting "unstuck" . It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2020

Q: What is the best piece of advice you’ve received that has guided the way you lead? While this is probably not the kind of response that is helpful in a work context, and not what you were likely looking to hear, the compilation of Dad’s life experiences and philosophies was a remarkable gift to me, my siblings and our children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

What strategy advice would you offer to the 100 organizations competing in this contest? Because I know their work first-hand, they got my vote ! It's not just the size of the Fan base, but activating them. In watching the scoreboard, the first and second place contenders have been fluid. Here's where you can go vote !

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether the use of stories or data will create a more compelling year-end appeal: Dear Charity Clairity, Should nonprofits appeal to reason or emotion in their appeals? One in four children in our community don’t get enough to eat.” 1 in 4 of which children?” “Is

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And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. I have one organization that serves children and they show the smile or the eyes of the child, but we don’t see the actual whole person. As Steven knows and a few of you on the session here know, I don’t have children. Steven: Yes.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Founding and Scaling JFF Frank has three children born from various fertility treatments. When I came back to America, I understood how expensive fertility treatments are,” she said. The Value of a Business Coach Frank’s top advice for founders and leaders is to work with a professional business coach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This blog post references rape, sexual assault and harassment, but also offers suggestions on how to reach out for help, resources for talking with children and self-care tips. The latest headlines have focused on the political calculus, and I, like much of America, followed much of the news coverage closely. TRIGGER WARNING.

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JULY 17, 2021

First of all, these children have taught themselves. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. And then there are other children. What’s your best advice for managing up? And Rose, you had to go remote overnight.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Recently, I got to talk with Priya Haji, the CEO and co-founder of World of Good about their work and her advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs. So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities. retail market. Priya Haji: My name is Priya Haji. We are not thinking about this alone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

In America, I think oftentimes one of the first things that gets cut are people's food budgets. But, as an adult, the moment that catalyzed my work was when I was in graduate school at NYU studying history, and I learned about the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for Children program. Grub Project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Examples of numbered lists include, “Five Reasons Why Conserving Wildlife is Important,” “Ten Simple Ways to Serve Your Local Community,” “Nine Powerful Stats about Domestic Violence in America,” and “Six Reasons Why You Should Read to Your Children.” Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She heads the firm’s practice in women’s issues and global affairs for clients including Women for Women International, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Global Fund for Women, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucille Packard Foundation and many others.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

Perhaps nonprofits have listened to my advice over the years to time their email campaigns when the most giving happens. Best Subject Line Award goes to Oxfam America Ambassador Aziz Ansari for his “Bad fruitcake news, Steve” message. Countdown for our children. Your gift today helps twice as many children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

As with any new technology anywhere in the world, when you very first introduce it - whether we're talking about cell phones in America, or we're talking about color TV in America, or we're talking about making purchases on the Internet - when you first introduce this, nobody wants it. Nobody knows about it.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Three pieces of advice for nonprofits looking at litigation as advocacy. Using courts to force societal change has produced some of the most enduring rights in America: the right to use birth control, the right to marry whom you would like, and the right to an attorney in a criminal trial to name a few. Do not reinvent the wheel.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Potentially populations served, like children or people with disabilities. So feel free to share with everyone your recommendations and your advice in the chat, because we all benefit and learn from each other. It’s a small family foundation and Bank of America is sort of managing the grant. That was great.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

It was my own story of wanting to understand why my mother sent me to America all of a sudden in an arranged marriage that I document. What advice do you have for people who have the idea, "I want to start an organization, or project, or social enterprise to make the world a better place"? Why would my mother betray me?

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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. FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign , a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2007

SK: I just completed a film called A Drop of Life , which is a film about the future of water; it's about a woman from America who comes to India to seal a deal that would put plastic prepaid credit card meters on the village water pumps so you can't get water unless you have a prepaid card. Britt Bravo: What are you working on now?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. The Green Festival is a big green economy event that we co-produce with Co-op America. Below is a transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I hope you'll take the time to read it, because they all have some great advice.

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