Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

Many of you already know about my first personal fundraising campaign to raise money to cover the cost of the college tutition and living expenses for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia. She is one of 18 students being sponsored for college through The Sharing Foundation's program. More background here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Leng Sopharath, Phon Vandy, and CHom Thavy - Sharing Foundation College Students. I was able to raise $850 which helped cover the costs for her to participate in the Sharing Foundation’s college student sponsorship program and send her off to Noroton University with an accounting major in 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

My birthday is officially on Sunday and if we can raise $5,200 - we can leverage some matching money - $520. I just got an email from Dr. Hendrie who is in Cambodia right now. The money raised from my birthday campaign would help us hire one of the college students that the Sharing Foundation has sent to school to teach the kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. The t-shirts were delivered to the students in May - here's a blog post about it. Click To Play.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Two years ago, my family and I made a commitment to sponsor Leng Sopharath, a young woman from Cambodia, for her college education through the Sharing Foundation 's education program. The Sharing Foundation (and some friends) covered her medical expenses and she is recuperating in the student house that we rent for our college students.

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MAY 17, 2012

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The main exhibition tells the history of Rwanda leading up to the genocide, what happened, and the aftermath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. Network Solutions partnered with a 12-year old Connor who was raising money for hunger by selling popcorn.

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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. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2008

They have identified the Sharing Foundation that helps children in Cambodia as the recipient. (If Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodia woman, has been sent to college for three years due to the generosity of people who read this blog , follow me (or Chris Brogan) on Twitter , or have connected with me through different social networks.

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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.

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AUGUST 26, 2007

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. How did you end up in Cambodia? What did you do while your in Cambodia (and Kenya)? I also wasn't able to shift my major that late in the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. When I wrote about video blogging and nonprofits way back in September, I discovered the Have Money Will Vlog (see their video here ), and it's an excellent example of what Peter Dietz calls micro-philthranthropy. They take 50%.

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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, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. How do you get students to write concisely, boil ideas down to their essence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart! We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day.

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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 helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection.

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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 ). At the end of the day, I met Adam Thompson who teaches at UofC Santa Cruz and I discovered that he distributes some of my blog content to his 25-40 students each semester. The video captures those on the philsophical side.

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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

As I said to the DDD team, we love to make our money work twice as hard by choosing social enterprises as vendors. Not only do we get outstanding quality and value for our money, we also know that money is supporting a social objective by helping disadvantaged people build assets financially and experientially.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I asked the students what else does that? was to raise money for the Sharing Foundation to send 53 Cambodian Youngsters to school by covering the cost of their uniforms ($10 per child or $530). That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. My 53rd birthday wish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2007

How many people can use Internet in Cambodia? ITC is the new knowledge in Cambodia. Cambodia does not have computers made in the country so we have to import. But now the government of Cambodia, also cares that people learn how to use computers and ICT. Before computer use was only in the US offices in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

His teacher, Ying So Ry, says Channy is a very attentive, hard working student, and she sees a bright future for him. Nhuong says,"I understand how difficult it is to obtain an education when you have no money and more importantly when food and clothing are scarce. He looks forward to advancing to the village school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

My fourth personal fundraising campaign was to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. The money goes to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, I raised the money on my blog. which manages the program. My family has sponsored her college costs for her freshman and sophomore years.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

When I asked her how much money that was and how she was trying to save for it, she was in a shelter at the time. She said that two hundred dollars was the amount of money that she was trying to save up. There was a woman I met a couple of years ago who said that all she ever wanted was to build her own noodle shop.

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