Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

Hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these hard times. Bloggers have helped raised awareness of this important issue. President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. Tags: hunger. AT&T will match donations up to $100,000.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2009

I've got 2 new posts up on WE Volunteer : HopePhones.org: Donate Your Cell Phone; Help a Medical Clinic September is Hunger Action Month: Getting Involved + Feeding America I've also started writing for a new blog for the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship ( full disclosure: my Dad is the Co-Founder ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I attended a local unconference for nonprofits about two years ago with the intention of learning how I, as a blogger, could help local nonprofits… you & your blog were mentioned several times. There’s nothing uglier than a blogger with a sense of entitlement. How did you discover my FB page? the UNITED STATES !!!!

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

The World Hunger Relief Project is actively engaging in a social fundraising giving day on World Food Day this October 16 to get 10,000 people to raise $200,000. We have a blogger/influencer resource kit built already where you can grab pictures, pre-drafted tweet, Twibbons, and other good stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease. Ed Nicholson from Tyson Foods pointed to two excellent examples of young girl who raised money for hunger relief by asking her friends to donate money to host a mobile food pantry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman. Here’s some resources from VolunteerMatch if you want to volunteer your time to help out hunger organizations. The organizations listed are profiled by other young people. Learning To Give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

The video bloggers Marcus Prior their spokesperson from East Africa. This is just one of the many different ways they are using social media for the fight against global hunger which has only intensified with the financial crisis. FLIP Camera. Flip Video Camera : These are easy to use, inexpensive cameras with a built-USB port.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Does he really comprehend what hunger or suffering means? Click here to read "Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Networking" — nonprofit blogger Jessica Sadoway 's take on what the buzzword "collaboration" really entails. For example, say a mother takes her five-year-old son to a service project. Probably not. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. In addition to Kids Against Hunger, the company is supports SOS Children's Villages , World Vision , and Children's Relief Fund.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Once a year, Blog Action Day unites bloggers around the world to focus on an important global issue and to create a dialogue that transcends international borders. This year, Blog Action Day’s focus is FOOD as it coincides with World Food Day that aims to increase awareness, understanding and fuel year-around action to alleviate hunger.

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JUNE 29, 2012

The blogger used Facebook as a base for people to send messages in order to allow people to elaborate on their stories (thus bypassing Twitter’s 140 character limit), and he then utilized the fast-paced, infectious nature of Twitter hashtags to spread his message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The event was designed for the Mashable audience, a younger and social media savvy group that has the hunger and capacity to consumer a lot of content as well as do good in the world. Very inspired by the bloggers and @ mashable @ 92y & @ unfoundation at #SGSGlobal. Remember to watch today at 2:45pm!

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Okay, maybe that's not what you guessed, and maybe it's not in a literal vegetable form, but on December 13, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. This law came as great news for anti-hunger activists and health advocates all over the county. Seventeen million children live in food insecure households.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

October 15th is Blog Action Day , an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day. Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank? Why not donate to a Women's Shelter in honor of your mom?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity. Innovative Giving: Tyson Foods For Hunger Relief. It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Even though tomorrow, October 15th, is Blog Action Day , an annual event when bloggers write about the same issue on the same day, today is the best day for me to put up my post, so here it goes! I figure it's already October 15th in some parts of the world, so it's ok (: This year's Blog Action Day issue is climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.     Join Change Bloggers and share what you're doing today with other social change bloggers.   The event will certainly spread awareness of the issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Many other nonprofit and do good bloggers helped promote the contest. Facebook users will be able to nominate non profits that serve the general public in the following areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. I'm sure I've missed something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. Help with world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. Co-Disruptor: AdoptAClassroom. Disruptor: Facebook. Disruptive Model: Social Network.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

—oh and while youre at it, can you please end all hunger everywhere?" What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. We are, after all, asking our nonprofit CEOs to take on enormous tasks: things like, "can you and your organization feed the hungry?—oh

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JULY 13, 2021

Penned by two successful bloggers and the former director of market development of Facebook, this book is a guide for nonprofits looking to incorporate social media into their strategies. Seth Godin. Download Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Content Planner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I was going to write a review and do a book giveaway, but I stumbled upon Wiser Earth blogger Angus Parker's excellent review. Note from Beth: I got a review copy. I read the book. It rocked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

2) Can you tell me about the "Pledge to End Hunger" that you recently launched to benefit Share Our Strength? We wanted this campaign to focus on the issue of childhood hunger in America and the fact that many different organizations and people were coming together to take up the cause locally and nationally.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Think of the people who now depend on Linux, on Google everything, on MySpace and Blogger, etc. Benkler goes further , and I go with him: Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development. And I think that in the new Web 2.0 6 Valorie Zimmerman 04.10.07

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

If you’re a fan of the trilogy, you’ll understand: 5 Important Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn From The Hunger Games. The Planned Giving Blogger, Phylis Freedman, shares ideas on launching a planned giving program for prospect audiences: Planed Giving When There Is No Annual Fund.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 7, 2011

Certainly, we must ask ourselves how we can best take advantage of the "new moral hunger that is growing" because of a world that is more self-aware than ever before. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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