Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Just received word that Jayne is off to Afghanistan at the end of February 2007, to serve as Communication and Reporting Advisor for the United Nation's National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP), part of UNDP. I'll be in Afghanistan through part of August." You can follow her adventures in Afghanistan on her blog.

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JULY 10, 2023

It paints a complete picture of the people you serve and the opportunities they can capitalize on with some help from within their community. Example: A gift of $50 today can help a neighbor (not a hungry family) who faces food insecurity. Helping those community members in need helps the community as a whole.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Over the past 75 years, UNICEF has made great strides toward helping all children realize their right to health, education, and protection. Students attending class in Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. Photo credit: UNICEF. Reimagine disaster spending.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Many of us will purchase hundreds of dollars in holiday gifts over the next six weeks, and with some conscious consumerism those dollars could also help some of your favorite nonprofits continue their work in 2012. Your purchases help improve the lives of tens of thousands of artisans worldwide. [ Shop 10,000 Villages ].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Their first project is a secondary school for 1,200 girls in Afghanistan where the female literacy rate is only 12%. Let’s help them get started on Twitter by following them at @CoWReachnTeach. Also known as Project Wonkhai, the school opened it’s doors in March 2009.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

This helps viewers better understand your daily operations and impact. Nick co-founded Stop Soldier Suicide stemming from his experiences leading Paratroopers as a Ranger qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne during 27 months deployed to combat zones in Afghanistan. Plan a variety of ways for users to interact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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MARCH 18, 2011

The Rucksack" -- a cutting-edge project that I led recently for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) -- is an especially powerful example of an organization using technology in a strategic and transformative way. To help share the story, I've put together a behind-the-scenes video tour of the Rucksack.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Encourage supporters to use this information when creating their own fundraisers, which can help protect your nonprofit’s digital brand (and, make the process easier for the users creating fundraisers!) but this simple strategy can help you overcome it. Being inconsistent is. Consider pivoting your year-end events to Facebook.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Share fundraising tips to help them reach their goals. When used effectively, social media is the ideal tool to help your nonprofit grow your social engagement leading into #GivingTuesday. You can connect with supporters via Facebook Messenger, similar to how they connect with their friends or family members on the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For example, Mark Horvath has put together a cookbook , filled with recipes from social media leaders, that is being sold on iTunes and is generating funding to help provide programs to homeless. Free Agents still find creative ways to make a difference today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

This year’s campaign hopes to raise $65,000 to invest in Mama Lucy’s secondary school in Tanzania, Renu & Maggie’s schools in Kathmandu & Surkhet, Nepal, and Suraya’s women’s shelter in Afghanistan. Learn more about the women being honored and create your heartspace for your mom here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin Be the Change: How Meditation Can Transform You and Your World by Ed and Deb Shapiro Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad (..)

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

Perhaps that voice in 2017 will be to help your nonprofit adopt text messaging as a new way of fundraising. It may also be helpful to know that 64 per cent of charitable donations are made by women. SAWA-Australia is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Afghanistan women with education and health services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Expressing their emotions so openly was a new and uneasy task, but with the help of a wonderful facilitator, Conso Buzabo , they intuitively shared their compassionate connections through simple art making. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

By promoting transparency, the Crowdfunder Bill of Rights helps address some of the potential problems with crowdfunding campaings. They've also hosted some successful nonprofit campaigns: Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace raised over $10,000 on its Indiegogo campaign. The Crowdfunder Bill of Rights. Neff of Lights.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: There are a lot of people these days who want to help other people out. People like me help get the word out. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. A: Nerds can help. All for Good makes that easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

World Food Programme to help a mother feed her child. One of GlobalGiving's "Mom Knows Best" projects like Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso or Fast Tracking Education for Women and Older Girls in Afghanistan. * . * Room to Read's Girls' Education program. Create an interactive card for your mom on the U.N.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Share fundraising tips to help them reach their goals. When used effectively, social media is the ideal tool to help your nonprofit grow your social engagement leading into #GivingTuesday. You can connect with supporters via Facebook Messenger, similar to how they connect with their friends or family members on the platform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Salbi is the President of Women for Women International , an organization that helps women affected by war to rebuild their lives. Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). With All Our Strength by Anne Brodsky. Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I now serve as the company’s ‘Principal Evangelist,’ which means my role is to help introduce GamesThatGive to the world. I have seen hundreds of ideas for new tools and technologies designed to help raise money for charities, none of which ever lived up to the billing. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. Do Something.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

A personalized approach will help broaden your reach. Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning. In addition to sharing it on your nonprofit’s Facebook account, try to get everyone involved in the making of your video to share it from their personal Facebook accounts, too.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

It was a tough pill to swallow, but I clearly understood that my role as a leader from the rear and as a mentor helped contribute to the success of the team. Having the ability to find my own purpose and center that soon after his tragic suicide really proved helpful. It certainly did for me.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Not only does Indiegogo offer discounts on fees, you can also get a badge on your campaign that says you're a verified 503(c) nonprofit (which, according to the Indiegogo rep I spoke with, helps with garnering donations). Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

About a year ago I was at a party at a friend's house, I wasn't feeling very social, so I went into the kitchen to see if I could help with anything. We got to talking, and she told me about a book she wrote about the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan , an underground organization working for women's rights in Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Help your users recommend new nonprofit partners. A growing company acquiring a start-up in a foreign market can use this data to help research the giving landscape in their new location and help new employees bring their favorite organizations under their corporate social responsibility (CSR) umbrella.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I believe if we go in that direction, and our intention is to be true to ourselves, and also to remember our own interconnection, and the state that the world is in right now, that it will guide us to a place where the work that we are doing is actually helping, and has an application. MH: It's been really crucial for me.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan. We can take time to explore, alongside projects such as MetaGov , E2C , MEDLab , Purpose , and Zebras Unite that are helping us find our way. Learning Together.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2010

One of the reasons I keep this blog is to help me figure out how to have fun, and do good, and o ne of the ways I learn is by example, so I've asked a handful of bloggers from my Have Fun, Do Good blogroll to share how they have fun and do good. She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. We are most interested in women of color, and girls of color who are the most economically and socially fragile.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2016

The campaign also sent reminders to expecting mothers about doctor's appointments and included quizzes that mothers could take to help retain the information they were receiving in the texts. On the other hand, 90 percent of text messages are opened within three minutes. Bottom line: increased open rates = increased participation.

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