Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I know this first hand because my family and I have been honored to support the college education of two young Cambodia women through the Sharing Foundation ‘s education program. College tuition in Cambodia compared to the US is not that much, for many young Cambodian women it is beyond their grasp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Now a parent with my own children, I involved my kids when they younger when I was fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2011

Tom Watson has written about a remarkable woman in Cambodia, Mu Sochu. I’d like to introduce you to Keo Savon, an orphan from Cambodia from the same orphanage as our daughter. Tom Watson has written about a remarkable woman in Cambodia, Mu Sochu. My tribute is to a Cambodian woman leader of the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. This came from an article in the Phnom Penh Post, an English language newspaper, published in Cambodia and was excerpted by Tharum's blog. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech Maybe Tharum might be interested?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water explains clearly on their homepage the three things that make them different from other nonprofits: their 100% model, their emphasis on proving where donations go with GPS tracking and their collaborations with local partners in the countries to which they bring clean water. Cambodia Networked Nonprofit' Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. It became clear that social media in Cambodia means "any media that can solve social issues." Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out.

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Tech Soup

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. Our Local Impact Map. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

I was thrilled to discover it because I had just started my " Cambodia For Kids " blog and thought it might help me connect with bloggers from Cambodia. I remember first coming across it back in 2005 when it was just a simple blog hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. at Harvard University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Razoo has promoted local giving days, including Twive and Receive and recently announced reaching a milestone of raising $100 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

" When children are orphaned in Cambodia, their last name is changed is "rath" which means orphan. Every year at the annual Water Festival in Lowell, MA, we have the "Rath Family Reunion" where families who have children adopted from Cambodia gather.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Together we'll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @ roomtoread , and with each case sold they'll be able to supply about 60 local language children's books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can't read. Good wine has never been better! And, with a donation - you get a bottle of wine too!

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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. They’ll get more local involvement, tons of new content to share with their online campaign audience, and probably some pretty good cookies if they go for that bake sale option.

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JUNE 11, 2008

Off the Mat, Into the World is a 501(c)(3) project of The Engage Network that, "aims to inspire and guide you to find and define your purpose and become active in your local or global community in an effective, sustainable and joyful way." Neil of Neil's Cambodia Challenge is taking the Challenge to fulfill one of his Five Wishes.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

You are making Cambodia more visible on Google and you are portraying Cambodia from a local???s Bloggers in Cambodia can connect with their relatives who live in the USA and other countries. It provides important information. s perspective rather than a foreigner???s s perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

He is very interested in Cambodia and a colleague of Kilong Ung , Cambodian-American who is based on Portland and local leader in the Cambodian community. I'd also like to point over to Bob Uva's blog post about the supporting the Sharing Foundation. I met Bob through Facebook.

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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. Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school. Leda, a young child, was abandoned in a local market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, California and at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Take for example, the Columbus Foundation's recently launhced Match Day 2.0 , a giving stimulus plan created to matching gifts to PowerPhilanthropy organizations and raise $1 million in 48 hours to support local needs in their community.

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APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. There’s another piece that, while it is a cornerstone of our organization, complicates the picture even more: we hire local talent. The children living here are our exclusive focus.

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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. I'm working on what has become my annual holiday post at BlogHer on the topic: Helping kids understand why it is better to give than to receive.

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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. While things have changed here in the US, in Cambodia, women and girls face tremendous odds trying to get an education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

In an article about his surfing in the local newspaper , he said, “I like the thrill of riding a large waves – it’s like climbing Mount Everest.” He introduced surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – He was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owned the first Greg Noll surfboard.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Since I'm on the board of the Sharing Foundation that works on development projects to support children in Cambodia and is part of the GlobalGiving community, I'm going to plug our education projects. You can read about them here as well as contribute. However, there are many worthy projects in other countries to support.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Local NGOs choose what is most needed in their area and apply online for funding. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

This year the girls each received a handmade doll by two women from a nursing home in Massachusetts and the boys got matchbox cards donated by a local Cub Scout Troop, along with handmade birthday cards. 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

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Interesting article about the localization of linux in Nepal. Similar language, cultural, and access issues as Cambodia.

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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. Participants of the training are selected from local NGOs. I am Cambodian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

Here's the description of the project purpose from the site: The KhmerOS project was born from our dream for the state of computer technology in Cambodia in three years. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia. I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

For months, I've been tagging urls that I found interesting about Cambodia into delicious with the cambodia tag and checking what else was tagged. just the other day I found an excellent case study on the Khmer Open Source Localization project. Usually it was not much or crap. But this has changed.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2006

The party took place in the school's gym which had wonderful oil paintings of Cambodia hanging on the walls (for example, this one ). Sara was busy dancing with some local children. I made a video: After the party, we went to the local market. There was also a khmer-style scuplture. Everyone was posing in front of it for photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

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. In that aspect, I would like to give my condolences to such great cause.

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