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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. It represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. Think we can do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

But many other people across America won't have that luxury. According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Hunger isn't just a problem in America. So I thought how a couple of bloggers came together to fight hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. There are so many stories that I hope to share with you about the many children that the Sharing Foundation care for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. Meanwhile, I am so proud that he put the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge widget on his blog. Meet Wanna. I've know Wanna virtually for over three years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it. Good luck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. Here's a few stories about some children mentioned in the video: Sina, age 15, is an orphan and head of her family, two younger sisters aged 12 and 9. Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Jen Lemen is a writer, illustrator, blogger and immigrant advocate living in Silver Spring, Maryland. Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices asked people if they would consider donating their schwag for the Cambodian bloggers conference. The children???s Jen gave me several T-shirts she picked up from some of the exhibitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

When I was invited to keynote and lead workshops at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit this summer, I collected technology and nonprofit t-shirts to bring over. so genersously that I had to pay for an extra suitcase to carry over all the t-shirts that were donated) and had enough extras to bring to the children in the orphanage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge. Over 95% raised goes directly to supporting the children! " And, then, of course, there is the art of integenerational online fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

I am not sure if everyone is following the ups and downs of Beth Kanter's online fundraising for the Sharing Foundation in America's Giving Challenge. There is just 36 hours left to the end of the challenge and the campaign is in the lead by 16 donations. This is exactly the kind of example we want to give to our clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

I'm also taking this opportunity to remind anyone who wanted to donate to the Sharing Foundation: If you haven't already, donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Retailers and corporations like CVS, H&M, Bank of America, and more have been getting into the #GivingTuesday game, and many businesses already find ways to give back during the holiday season.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

At the end of the day, while taking a little Twitter break and checking on the progress of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , I noticed that we were 3 $10 donations shy of $15,000 total raised. A Laughing Squid T-Shirt is now being worn by a proud Cambodian Blogger! Thank you Jonti and Nancy White !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this past week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. The ubiquitous world of Disney is inescapable when you have small children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I talked up Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge while I was getting a haircut and other patrons were interested, even touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. There's also a whole village of bloggers helping with this cause lead by Michele Martin. Immunizing the Village's Children. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

The America's Giving Challenge will be over in another ten days. If we win, we can help many children like Mon Channy have a better life. Frequently, children in very poor families work in order to bolster the family??? For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Mon Chany's Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

He mentioned the America's Giving Campaign for the Sharing Foundation in his talk. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! With $10 you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

The rise of mobile and social media has profoundly altered how journalists frame and format their stories, and the same is true for nonprofit bloggers. An organization whose mission is to support education could write a post about how parents can instill in their children at an early age the desire to go to college.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge. I thought, "Great.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

We recommend including different types of messengers such as the media (aka self-identified bloggers) who can write about your issues and “everyday” advocates who can share your message to their networks. Media (blogger) Influencer. Goal: Cultivate bloggers to write or Tweet about your campaign. VIP Influencers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School.

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