Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2008

I came across Ore's writing via Sokari Ekine's fantastic bridge blogging of the African blogosphere on Global Voices. I was a mentor on Ore's Blog Mentoring Project in Africa as Joitske Hulsebosch also writes about. I also had a chance to work with Ore through Nancy White and KM4DEV Technology Stewardship issue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Here's how it works. Add a Breadline Blogger Bakeoff fundraising widget to your blog. Join the campaign.

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

To become one of the success stories, it helps to work from the bottom up, top-down, and inside out. Our “boots on the ground” colleagues are often working alongside community leaders to help residents advocate for change. appeared first on Candid Blog. Examples include #BlackLivesMatter, #MADD, and #FlintWaterCrisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Here’s what I learned: How did you get started working in the nonprofit sector? However, now I’m bringing a new tool to my work in the form of mindfulness.

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APRIL 12, 2021

org is an international movement of people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. For example, AfrikaVuka , the digital organizing platform for 350 Africa, is a climate organizing platform now engaging about 100 groups across the continent. Bentley Motors.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful Funds raised will go to support the work of Mama Lucy Kampton ( @MamaLucy ), a ChangeMaker who has transformed her community in Arusha, Tanzania through her school Shepherd’s Junior. Tags: events fundraising africa epic change tweetsgiving.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Our partners around the world have been busy working on some interesting projects, articles, and blogs for the nonprofit sector. NGO Pulse (South Africa). Learn how a nonprofit in South Africa, the Papillon Foundation , helps unemployed people learn new skills and find jobs. GuideStar International. Image: gabindu.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. As we look forward to 2015, we recognize that much work remains to be done, and we definitely need your continued support.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2010

Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog. That is one of the conclusions I drew from the Seminar on Science and technology partnerships with Africa: Opportunities for European Foundations. This post comes from GuideStar International communications manager Keisha Taylor.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2017

The following blog first appeared on. That is, once they’ve cultivated a new donor, they spend a considerable amount of time and effort attempting to persuade that donor to volunteer or participate in some kind of hands-on activity at their headquarters or at an off-site location where the donor can experience their work firsthand.

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

While the research revealed a disappointing reality, it also highlighted opportunities for foundations and HBCUs to work together to make a greater impact. She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children. Panelist Dr. Steven E. I’m encouraged that we can pull together to get this right.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

In other words, don’t throw this together at the last minute and expect it to work! Interest Keepers: Post photos and videos of your work in action throughout your campaign. Tell stories about how lives have been changed and show powerful images of your work. So, give this effort the time and attention it deserves!

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

entities were also supported, including 11 based in India, two in Africa, and one in Mexico. . Her latest blog is aptly titled “Seeding by Ceding,” as she has continued to award very large, unrestricted donations, allowing nonprofits the flexibility to determine how best to spend the funds. This time, however, non-U.S. Conclusion .

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. appeared first on Candid Blog. Patrick’s Cathedral. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Candid

JULY 18, 2023

and around the world—be it through their investments in gender equality, the capacity to convene collaborators to streamline development financing for low- and middle-income countries, or the ability to make billion-dollar, long-term commitments in Africa. They are not the only pledgers with the capacity to set public priorities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

I found it incredible that almost no one in the social entrepreneurial field knew about this and decided a blog post was in order! It was a daring venture: Paraguay was then still under a military dictatorship and it was extremely difficult to advance social work. and Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2011

As I noted in my first blog on my African trip, I was delighted with the entrepreneurial culture in Nairobi, Kenya. We were introduced to Steve and Daproim through the great offices of Leila Janah and Samasource, the "Give Work" people. Steve wanted me to work my way around the office shaking everybody's hand!

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

In GreenTech we've explored how telework, or working remotely via the Internet, is good for the environment and will likely change the modern office. It is cloud-based work, which can be done anywhere where people can access the Internet. I remain somewhat skeptical that online work will save America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

We are particularly interested in the human side of AI and how it will augment the work of fundraisers and support donors. This week I interviewed long-time blog reader, Alison Lowndes who I first met via my blog as a regular commenter. We reconnected, of course, through a recent blog comment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

As those of us in the United States, Canada and Latin America are wrapping up our work days, Asia and Australia are just beginning theirs – and then hours later those in the Middle East, Africa, and then Europe come online to a new day as well. This blog post will be posted as a $30 Promoted Post on Monday morning, June 11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

I worked with 39 young women between the ages of 18-30. I shared Ory Okolloh’s Twitter profile and shared some of her background as a co-founder of Ushahidi and now working for Google. The mission is to empower young women in East Africa to [.] Everyone was using Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22. You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Tags: community digital learning africa education.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. What are you up to right now in Africa? Where do the funds go?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. What are you up to right now in Africa? Where do the funds go?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. To this point, your work with your volunteers is all procedural. Complete the paperwork.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival. Block, delete, ban, report, and move on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. The video bloggers Marcus Prior their spokesperson from East Africa. FLIP Camera.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I visited Daproim four years ago, and wrote about my experiences in a blog post about its founder, Steve Muthee. Daproim worked with TechnoServe and developed soft skills training modules for students who stuck with the work after an initial period. Incredibly, the high-quality work continued to flow from Daproim uninterrupted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Note from Beth: Over five years ago , I connected with Sam Mayfield, an independent media maker, through my blog. In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 29, 2010

Christopher Fabian has a great blog post up on the MobileActive blog about the way the #1MillionShirts idea emerged and grew via social media, especially Twitter, this week. You can read the full blog post here. There were uniformly negative tweets from everyone with any sense of the “African&# context. Please join!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

I saw this while I was busy mentoring for the Young Caucasus Women Blogging Project. The project is about: The African Mentoring Project was created as a way of encouraging and supporting Africans who want to start blogging. So, I immediately emailed Ore to volunteer as a mentor. which I had taken in the fall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

He worked at Cern or the UN at the time and everyone wanted to view his public FTP folder - after all it was the "secret" folder.). For example, I was looking for a list of Twitter users from Africa - and after some conversation with Kabissa on Twitter, I found their lists.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The TechSoup blog is also sharing practical tips to keep you safer online (just in case there isn’t a NetSquared group near you!). The link need to be like so: Africa. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa. Upcoming Events. Naples, Florida.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Ever since I’ve kept in touch with her over Twitter. Zawadi has launched her own consulting firm and works with African nonprofits and social change activists on their social media and crowd funding campaigns. She is working on a providing training for organizations and activists in Kenya to learn how to launch successful campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. Why don't I blog about it and ask readers for help I thought? Plus he will also donate $5000 to Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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