Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. She moved to Cambodia in April, 2000. How and why did you find yourself in Cambodia? My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Mlup Baitong???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

I started to find great expat blogs about Cambodia, particularly sweetcucumber and started to follow the links of the comments and found another blog which referenced Elizabeth's project. I am hoping that I can set up something with my son's class and the kids she is working in Cambodia over the next year. I emailed her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Ever since, I’ve continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia. I’ll be raising money for the Sharing Foundation to contribute to Keo Savon’s college education. Claire from Twitter kicks it off today with a post about giving to Hope Runs.

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JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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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. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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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. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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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 27, 2007

My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. But, also felt sad when thought of the many children in Cambodia who would not have the same opportunities as our children do. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. Sign up here.

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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. When you are in the privileged position of being the one to bring the educational items, how do you present a balanced view?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices asked people if they would consider donating their schwag for the Cambodian bloggers conference. 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

AUGUST 17, 2007

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too!

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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

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. They have a good chance of securing 50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

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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 Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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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. book go directly to SEPTAR, the fledgling Special Education PTA of Redwood City. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach. All proceeds from the sale of the Can I Sit With You? Can I Sit With You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Ending Global Slavery is part of an Ashoka initiative Changemakers.net. There are 15 projects in the competition, all with a mission of ending traffiking and slavery, including an entrant from Cambodia. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

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. Global NpTech. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! Wanna check out more tech tools?

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

Companies involved in the production of Agent Orange are still facing lawsuits from victims, both US veterans and civilians from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, to this day. . In the same year, the Global Reporting Initiative was founded in Boston. 2000 – The United National Global Compact is launched.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

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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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

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. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. theasianeconomist.com/?p=6.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS. Glamour and powerHouseBooks have produced a collection of Pearl's interviews in, In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl , which includes a Foreword by Angelina Jolie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. It helped me write this post - " What Color is the Social Web? ". This is just a sampling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Take for example IRIS Business Service voter project or Steria's Education program to get a flavor.

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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. It got the seeds planted in my head that this is an altruistic community, it's an educated community. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. 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. The first step is to get educated.

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