Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." It develops and supports the profession of social entrepreneurship by acting as a venture capital firm for visionary change-makers around the world. Here's how it works.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Before this point I had not been able to affect the kind of change I was seeking by being a fine art photographer only. I know that I can make a difference for positive change, and am learning that Traveling Postcards might be the vehicle for making that change.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It felt to me like coming out of the closet when I began talking about spiritual practice with my activist friends"--Marisa Handler The more I write about organizations and individuals who are creating social change, the more I realize that to create true change, we need to change our inner world and our outer world.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007).

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Marianne is a change-maker, a human rights advocate, a yoga teacher and a writer. She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. All I’ve ever wanted from my life was to do good. The first guest post is by Marianne Elliott. You can follow her on Twitter at @zenpeacekeeper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one. Many of us in the weeds disagree.

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MAY 13, 2009

This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life.

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MARCH 7, 2011

We'll show you how Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a national non-profit, non-partisan group supporting our nation's newest generation of veterans has established a multi-year partnership with Miller High Life, the San Diego Padres, and celebrities that support their mission. When: Saturday March 12 11:00 AM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe.

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JULY 18, 2007

She writes for Our Bodies, Our Blog (about women's health and feminism) and manages the web site, Women's Voices for Change. Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student.

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DECEMBER 3, 2005

I will leave my family and my friends and the life I knew and I will fight." If you offer any criticism or even mention that we should take a second look at our strategy and change our approach, you're branded cut-and-run. Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. And they went.

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