Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2007

At Logan Airport loaded up with swag Found a plug and wifi at LAX My husband and kids dropped me off at Logan Airport a couple of hours before my flight to LA to connect to my flight to Phnom Penh via Singapore to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. I flew American Airlines and the terminal was a zoo. I waited in line 2.5

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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. Bora Vuth, a young man from Cambodia who is attending college here in US, put his finger on it as he joined 136 other people on Facebook who donated to the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I wasn't sure whether I was feeling awful from being dehydrated or from the experience of something not translating well, but this young woman approached me afterwards and asked if she could keep the cards and to use in her class. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So, while I am delighted with the response to book , I’m even more pleased that the book is able to help young people in Cambodia. Sharing knowledge, social media, and supporting young people in Cambodia. It’s made think about how far social fundraising has come in the last four years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Here’s what I learned. Share in the comments. … Read More

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JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

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. Nonetheless, I decided to make a donation to the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. One of their donors was a class of kindergarteners at the Berwick Alternative Elementary School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

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." I like to listen to my favorite khmer group, Dengue Fever. Dop Pram Moy is my favorite song.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

A CultureQuest is undertaken by an entire class working together, within which small groups of students focus on areas of the culture that are of particular interest to them. A secondary goal of a CultureQuest is to provide students with the technology skills they will need for the 21st century.

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JUNE 11, 2008

Do you want to take the peacefulness you feel after taking a yoga class, and use it to make the world a better place? The Seva Challenge asks participants to raise $20,000 (or more) by December 31, 2008 for the Cambodian Children’s Fund , and to take a trip with OTM in February 2009 to Cambodia to help CCF with their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I have many examples from my own children and those of Sharing Foundation stakeholders - many who are adoptive parents and have encouraged their children to give back to Cambodia. One of their donors was a class of kindergarteners! Take for example the lemon stand fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Create tags and encourage users to adopt them: If you're creating a class tag, for example, make sure that the students in that class know how to use them. I also thought about the fantastic work that they are doing in Cambodia . My first reaction was, I need to create a video like I need a hole in the head.

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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. This is my story in why I hold this cause so dear to my heart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

The impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of people globally every day, particularly in countries like Cambodia. HIV pregnant women who have previously registered come here near to term, receive teaching in group classes, and when in labor go to the Hospital, where they receive nevirapine in labor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

In Harry's class, there is a large computer and I can put the images in powerpoint: Inquiry questions: How do we celebrate New Year's in America? In Cambodia? I've created a book with lots of photos and will do circle style on the rug - the interactive lecture. How it different in Asia? Gung Hay Fat Choy - What does it mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Take this example of an art history class. Tharum , who works for a a Cambodian NGO, recently wrote about how flickr helps more people learn about Cambodia. Technorati Tags: nptech cambodia. I was inspired about the possibility of how the Cambodian blogosphere might share knowledge cross-culturally across the globe via flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

Computer classes are held every morning utilizing donated laptops and desktops (that are hand-carried over by Dr. Hendrie on her quarterly trips) Students, picked by lottery, come daily for six weeks to learn word processing, spread sheets, and Internet use, on our one, slow connection, acquiring a useful skill for future employment.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

Do you remember selling chocolate to raise money for your class field trip back in elementary school? For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Enrique Allen asked me what I call a " teachable moment question " during the class.

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Phymean Noun "Growing up in Cambodia, Phymean Noun struggled to complete high school. Viola Vaughn "A group of failing schoolchildren in Kaolack, Senegal, once asked Viola Vaughn to help them pass their classes. Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. Bernard Parish, a community just outside New Orleans.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand. Hagar International rescues and rehabilitaties women and children in Cambodia who are victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and sex trafficking.

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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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JANUARY 16, 2008

When I was growing up, I was very aware of the class differences, and the different ways that people would treat children who were from lower class families. There were five of us that were born in South and Southeast Asia, and I lived there until I was 21.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Sometimes, I'll be sitting in class, and I'll know there are six people here every day working full-time to just make this happen, and they believe in it with all their hearts. We had an intern go to Cambodia and visit one of the businesses that was supposed to have started a fruit stand.

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MAY 23, 2006

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. In addition, being a woman, an immigrant in the US, and being of a working class background, I feel close to issues of discrimination and inequality.

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