Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2010

Somaly Mam , Cambodia woman, is an anti-slavery activist and survivor fighting for victims all over the world. I noticed her tweet tonight after Spenser Brodsky's tweet about my birthday campaign connected me to her. Human Trafficking is a huge issue around the world, especially in Cambodia. She graduates this year!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Since I was born and bred in Cambodia I understand how difficult it is to obtain an education when you have no money and more importantly when food and clothing are scarce in itself. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Most children are illiterate and work on the family farm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

I can't do this alone and that's why I'm asking my blogger friends to join me and in helping to raise money to help the many children who are touched by the Sharing Foundation's programs. My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. Sign up here. Why am I doing this? s poorest families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. But collective action isn’t enough unless there is collective impact. How does one measure that?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. But there was something else at play for me this year, my fourth, celebrating my birthday with social media and a networked fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

In Roteang Village, where the Sharing Foundation has programs that help over 1,500 children each and every day, there was a birthday bash at the orphanage for the 70 plus children. Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

I'm pulling together all my notes and will post reflections about all the campaign shortly! 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 We are very grateful to everyone for their contributions, links, and advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The Give One, Get One campaign launched yesterday. I wrote about some of the challenges about using these laptops in Cambodia (primarily - can't load KhmerOS on them because the screen is too small) and you can' t designate the recipient or the country even. Nonetheless, I decided to make a donation to the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons. Shocked and angry, Noah opted to turn his eleventh birthday into an online fundraising campaign to raise $11,000 for imprisoned kids around the world. Help them set up and manage their campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. This year we could more than double the number of uniforms we provide to children in Cambodia, including some for HIV children's group homes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

She earns a monthly wage working for a sewing school and shop, a vocational program run by the Sharing Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or get a better paying job in Cambodia???s This could make a big difference for thousands of children in Cambodia.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

The Sharing Foundation sends a personalized, made in Cambodia, thank you card designed by one of the talented orphans we're supporting for high school and art lessons no less ! His campaign video is here. A better world for my children, and the children of everyone around the world. And then goes on describe the features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2007

Provide 570 children with life-saving vaccines. This project will immunize 570 children in a small Cambodian village against Hepatitis B, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, all potentially fatal and preventable diseases. Location: Cambodia | Need: $18,700. We're raising money to immunize 570 children in the village.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Why Cambodia? be it Cambodia, Africa or Haiti.??? s garment industry. Hendrie points out, ???While

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2008

When we decided to adopt from Cambodia, we tried to learn as much as possible about the country. Dith Pran came to a New Year's Celebration at a friend's home that included many children adopted from Cambodia. He talked about his campaign against genocide everywhere. The quote from the New York Times obit says it all: ???One

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies to work on a couple of projects and get ready for the final phase of the our America's GIving Challenge campaign. Dr. Hendrie has been working tirelessly on this campaign using her social networks. Please go read it. ve assumed all leadership positions. Dr. Nancy is an inspiration!

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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, it makes very difficult to get motivated to do a fundraising campaign for some unknown recipient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. The Sharing Foundation gave them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage.

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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 And in November, I purchased one of the special CC t-shirts and wore it on my blog in November to support Creative Commons Annual campaign. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. Sharing Foundation's Roteang Orphanage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath. You can read see the other photos and read the letter in flickr here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

It can be a greater fundraising strategy than just creating a campaign. Before thinking of events or campaign pages, ask yourself these essential questions to determine if you have the makings of a flourishing peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: Does your nonprofit have a unique story? Set Up Your Campaign Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

During the America's Giving Challenge, when we dropped into 5th place and I thought the race was over, Jen activated her supportive network with this beautiful post, " To Cambodia With Love." The children???s Jen, can you share how you ran this campaign? s basic needs. Why do you think it was successful?

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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 family latrine??? shown 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. Designing the campaign, messaging, and gathering up the content is the hard part. It's important to me. Setting up the Cause is the easy part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2007

The first thing that came to mind was the extraordinary generosity that you all showed in supporting the campaign to send Leng Sopharath to college. The contest is about telling a story about someone's good deed on behalf of an nonprofit organizations. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. HURRY this ends on December 19th. So go vote now! And thank you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Warning: This video creates some graphic and powerful images that may not be suitable for younger children. I also thought about the fantastic work that they are doing in Cambodia . For 15 years, WITNESS has harnessed the power of video to advance human rights. But then I watched their video - storytelling at its best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Every time Dr. Hendrie travels back from Cambodia, we had a special briefing meeting for the Sharing Foundation volunteers and board members. The blog campaign raised $49,000 which was matched by Yahoo. Photo in my flickr stream here. The Sharing Foundation accomplishes so much! There's so much to write about.

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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

MAY 11, 2009

Cambodia brought me my two beautiful children and I felt strongly that we should give back to the country in some way. I was delighted that Mark Grmes, from nedspace, who has been a repeat donor to my Cambodian campaigns made me an offer I could not refuse. I've been thinking about her senior year and how to cover that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Having implemented a successful campaign to raise the money to support a young college student named Leng Sopharath in Cambodia that raised $872 using the ChipIn widget, I set up a charity badge over at Network for Good to support the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which provide educational opportunities for over 1,300 children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. One of the panelist had asked the room on my behalf for t-shirts for my suitcase campaign and Jen gave me a her blogher schwag! t been able to shake the urgency in Beth Kanter ???s

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. Between now and December 31st, Beth is working to raise $750 for the Sharing Foundation , an NGO that works with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to improve children's lives. She sits on their board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

Just as I was about to hit publish, I got an alert that Steve Sherlock donated to my birthday campaign and the total is now $1,206. We've raised $1, 206 to help children in Cambodia. Even though I'm not raising huge dollar amounts, what makes feel great is that small donations go a long way in Cambodia.

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