Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Whenever I've travel over to Cambodia, I have the opportunity to check two large suitcases up to 70 pounds each. This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 YouthNoise?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

In her birthday wish post , Beth announces that she’s trying to send 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530. Last week, Stacy Monk and I were chatting and thought that our community could help smash that goal by raising much more funds as well as awareness for the work the Sharing Foundation does in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, as a prelude to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit , I'm going to tag 8 of them. On my first trip to Cambodia, I photographed a pair of red baby sneakers in front of famous landmarks in Cambodia with the idea of writing a children's book, "Where Are Harry's Red Shoes in Cambodia." by CogDog Blog.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Last year, Nathanial Whittemore facilitated an online discussion by asking bloggers to answer the question: " What is the one thing you need to know before you donate to charity? " This year the answer to the question isn't overhead ratios and executive salaries. . Photo by Oblivion 9999. My giving style is streamlined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

But I didn't see your offer to share the POST report with bloggers until just now. So, not only will I blog it, but you'll be supporting orphans and children in Cambodia too. I hope I am not too late to get a copy of the report. If I can get a copy of the report, I'll make a donate to the Sharing Foundation in your honor!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She is also a terrific live blogger! I am grateful for her detailed notes from the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. This was a trip to bring urban young people to experience life in a rural area and to deliver school supplies for children who live in the province and are very poor. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2007

She earns a monthly wage working for the Sharing Foundation 's Sewing Project, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or a better paying job in Cambodia???s Are you a blogger? s garment industry. school uniform packets???

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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. The orphanage represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

It represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. The orphanage is home to over 70 infants and children, nearly half of whom, due to serious disabilities, will remain in the Foundation's care indefinitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

He loved my Mom, his four children, and 7 grandchildren dearly. He was interested in my work used to say, “My daughter the blogger.” Please donate to SurfRider Foundation in his memory. Tribute to My Dad. With 6 out 7 grandchildren. ” He wanted to learn how to blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Mongkol , a Cambodian blogger, sent us this lovely New Year's card. If you are curious Cambodia New Year, you can learn about it here - a curriculum and materials I created for other adoptive parents so they could bring the Khmer celebration into their children's classrooms. Click to see larger version.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. So, maybe they will make it easier for people who want to support specific schools and children. Tharum was disappointed too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

TSF has helped support a poor school named Beng Krom School, with 595 grammar school children on the far side of the Mekong. s children really need three latrines to expand from the two they have for all their children and teachers. Now Beng Krom???s I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! Only us Khmer can bring forth the change needed in Cambodia. how much of that 40 dollars acc[t]ually goes to cambodia? how much of that 40 dollars acc[t]ually goes to cambodia?" We hire local people in Cambodia to run the programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I got tagged by three different people for the same blogger meme that swirling around the blogosphere. Here's the meme: Publish five little known facts about yourself, and then tag five of your blogger pals to participate. The culprits are: Matthew Saunders , Nedra Weinreich , and Dina Mehta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

A quick search through Flickr resulted in many photos of beautiful, but toothless children, tooth fairy pillows , a pair of tooth fairies from a dental school, notes to the tooth fairy a dog's visit from the tooth fairy and children's notes to the tooth fairy like the one depicted in the photograph above.

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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. Are you a blogger? I'll also be asking people to donate (minimum $10), ask their friends and networks to donate, and help me promote this cause. Call To Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. Mean was only recently introduced to blogs and the organization got the idea of doing a blog projects from one of Cambodia's better known bloggers, Ex-King. How can other bloggers who are interested in Cambodia encourage or support your project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

And that's not all, the Sharing Foundation provides school uniforms (a requirement to enter school) to street kids in Cambodia so they can attend school. 's So, if don't worry that we're over goal - there are many children who will benefit from the additional support. Keun Fast , another Cambodian blogger. Nancy White.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I've been thinking about how bloggers can use their blogs during the holiday season to support organizations that they care about, like Chez Pim has done for UNICEF with the Menu for Hope. My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. She sits on their board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

For this small organization which is doing alot of good in Cambodia a prize like this means new children can benefit from their education programs, more young people can attend college and more families can move out of poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart! We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

He tells why the Sharing Foundation's work, particularly its education work, is important: Inspiring from article Cambodia facing uneducated future written by BBC News, I decided to make a change in this new year 2008 by donating some money to help The Sharing Foundation win the $50.000 from America's Giving Challenge. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

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???s For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Most children are illiterate and work on the family farm. Mon Chany's Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers. We had the time to dig into a topic and come out with a deeper understanding. That's rare in a conference setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. In February, I was asked to go to Uganda with 15 other bloggers through Compassion International. What advice would you give to other bloggers who want to use their. blogs to raise money for charity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. After the class, she shared the story with her three children (above) who rallied together and made a contribution to the Sharing Foundation! Final Slides PoST View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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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. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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