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

JANUARY 8, 2008

Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia. Her family has been willing let her pursue her education instead of working in the fields. Opened in 2000, it provides a new standard of compassionate care for children in Cambodia. Chheng Srey Mom, 16, has completed grade 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This is my challenge to you on literacy day: What do you think, and what can we all learn from incidents like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to my network, and Vicky Davis is one of the people I turned to for to ask for help with the from her network of wired educators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Cambodian youngster in the Sharing Foundation 's Education program practices her alphabet. If you want to know more about why my family and I care about the children of Cambodia and this charity, take a minute to watch this video my son, Harry made.) We raised $6,158 from 157 donors!

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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

APRIL 17, 2008

Not For Sale works to educate about, expose and eradicate modern day slavery, because no one should be for sale. She has challenged herself to eat on a dollar a day for 30 days. Education And More : Has a mission to help educate the children and reduce poverty in Guatemala. suggested by Dave Web 2. Suggested by Kare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

where we talked a lot about the job of educating people about the possibilities of new technologies like Web 2.0 We also talked about the challenges of making leap from Web 1.0 My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection.

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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." Jen gave me several T-shirts she picked up from some of the exhibitors. s basic needs. The children???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

Wagner writes the Educational Technology and Life Blog - his tagline "Context-embedded, Inquiry-driven, and Socially-negotiated Learning." " Anyway, his blog was one of the first edtech blogs I started to follow and he emailed me recently to let me know he has a new domain and wordpress blog. and the lack of time.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

L — Listen and understand the challenges faced by individuals and organizations working to strengthen our community. I — Inspire individuals and organizations to overcome their challenges and make a difference in the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

I'm thinking about the interview that I had with Jon Udell where we talked a lot about the job of educating people about the possibilities of new technology. My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection. As one participant said, ???Money

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

Beth is a Cambridge, MA blogger and techy who has done a lot of work with arts and educational organizations. She also does a lot writing relating to Cambodia. While the blog is not primarily about technology, he explores in this post his ideas for utilizing Writely, a web based collaborative word processor, as an educational tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. The Fellows provide much needed energy, expertise and enthusiasm while being exposed to to the compelling, challenging, essential and often dangerous work done by campaigners for human rights and social justice. Can I Sit With You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. I rounded up some other resources here and the Shaping Youth Blog did a roundup post with huge pile of green geek, recyclying, and youth education links. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

" (Interesting that KhmerOS had a table at the Cambodia Fair Trade Expo ). He told the story about the growth and challenges facing the Joomla! " This calls to mind a debate in the educator community. The video captures those on the philsophical side. UPDATE: His name is Johan Janssens.

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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. In Cambodia, rural children often die from preventable infection and disease. Cambodia's child mortality rate is among the world's highest. 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. Both Bora and Nhuong, young people from Cambodia, who are donors to Sharing Foundation, know this story all too well: As Bora says, "I don't know what I can do as a single Cambodian citizen to help next generation of my country. Mon Chany is in the middle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I love designing and delivering trainings on social media and the added challenge of working outside of the US. I am also very transparent with the audience about the challenges of "lost in translation" and include discussion questions like 'How does this translate to an Indian context?". It always helps me improve practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation, which began with Seane talking about Off the Mat, Into the World's origins, and the Seva Challenge. We raised around $60,000 doing very little.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Tactical Philanthropy continues the One Post Challenge with a post titled " Beyond Hacking Philanthropy " from Kevin Jones from Good Capital and who blogs xchangexchange. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Coming from a background in developing and implementing programs, it was a challenge to shift to the operations side of the non-profit world. Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it.

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