Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. This contest is for donors to share their story – so why not encourage your nonprofit’s board or donors to enter? Good stories are authentic, emotional, and use dramatic structures. Momsrising.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

She originally founded the Voice of Women Organization (VWO) to educate girls in Kabul in secret schools under the Taliban, and has since expanded to support and assist underprivileged women and children throughout Afghanistan. Please share the stories, insights, and lessons on the heartspace wall. And now I hope you’ll join me!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. To read more about these remarkable individuals and the organizations supporting them, visit the Microsoft Philanthropies site and learn how we can all help to change their stories. Why NGOs and Humanitarian Workers Need Technology.

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NTEN

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Growing up, I took ballet lessons, played flute, attended concerts, learned how to draw, painted with water colors and oil paints, wrote poetry and short stories, learned how to spin wool and weave fabrics, sew, theater improv. She always encouraged me to participate in the arts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

She's offering a special deal right now that if you buy her book, Zen Under Fire: A Story of Love and War in Afghanistan , you will receive 30 Days of Courage for free You'll notice when you click on the link for Zen Under Fire , that the book is only available from New Zealand at this time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video? As charities, we tell stories all the time—it’s how we show our donors their money is making a difference! Find your story. Like all good stories, your final script should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Of course you do!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. Nonprofit Success Story: Indiegogo has a wonderful gallery of campaigns from verified nonprofits, but I especially like this campaign from Give2 Asia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 16, 2008

Rather, it is a do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. education book Pakistan Afghanistan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

SAWA-Australia is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Afghanistan women with education and health services. Text messaging allows organizations to reach members quickly and social media allows them to keep their members’ interest by sharing stories, photos and videos. Text-to-Give Case Studies.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. Nonprofit Success Story: Indiegogo has a wonderful gallery of campaigns from verified nonprofits, but I especially like this campaign from Give2 Asia.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In his books, he tells the story of founding his nonprofit and recounts tales of the struggles they faced while fulfilling their mission of providing education to girls in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He used his best-selling books T hree Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools to promote the cause of his organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). According to their site, "RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

One year she made each of us a sweater with a story. 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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Her newest book, the story of a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations for 34 years, has inspired an upcoming documentary and feature film. Her, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was on my Favorite Do-Good Book of 2007 list. Check out the Chasing the Flame blog for more details.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Dreams is his personal story, while Audacity is more of a reflection on American politics and culture. 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. Unbowed by Wangari Maathai.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan. I think it is partly also about seeing the power of stories, which writing this book has shown me, just how people are so moved by stories, and how drawn I am to telling stories.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

To get a sense of the complexity involved in connecting these groups to make an impact, take three countries’ unique nonprofit data stories: Organizations have a variety of registration types. In France, eight types of foundations are registered across multiple national registries.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tell a story. And having your own stories, like really great stories about the volunteering that you’re doing, or the experience you’re having with your beneficiaries and being able to tell those stories. These are simple, this kind of warm-up. Write a couple of things in the chat. What are some. I like that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told.

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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

APRIL 25, 2008

A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. And finally, VidCaster for HootSuite allows you to view, share, and measure analytics on your videos so you can better tell your nonprofit’s story.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

Her personal story is chronicled in the memoir, Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. Literally, the safe haven for women is the only space where they can go, and learn, and share their stories. That's the story of Women for Women. Every single one of them has a story.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Habbo’s InfoBus re: curbing violence against gay teens; developing understanding via the Matthew Shepard Foundation visiting ‘in-world’ or the War Child Int’l foundation partnership to focus in-world on kids impacted by violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda etc. What do you think?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. Each had their own stories of horror, of lives lost, and of struggling to regain their dignity. She received the John F.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

Listening to the stories of these young men and women, most of them in their early twenties, I had to ask myself how I would be feeling if it were my son, my nephew, or my sister lying there. Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. What are the costs and benefits of our actions moving forward?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

A truly remarkably story of very every day mothers and daughters in Liberia who were just so sick of the civil war between Charles Taylor, and then the rebels in Liberia, being funded with Sierra Leone diamonds essentially, that they mobilized an entire community of women around peace. It's something worth thinking about.

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