Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Getting answers from real people: Digital platforms allow users to find and interact with people who have similar work needs and get answers to their questions from real people. Provide services: Services that people or organizations can themselves repackage and tailor to their own needs can be provided via digital platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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DECEMBER 28, 2006

The most important way for people to collaborate is face to face, so we have a number of ways that we convene women who are doing this work on various different levels. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions.

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MARCH 2, 2007

What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It also helped students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. So Bhatia’s business partner, Robert Chatwani , used social media tools to implement a Help Sameer campaign. Employ empowerment marketing. Don’t ask for help require it.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It took a long time actually, it took about five more years of holding it inside, and I bet a lot of people in the audience might have experienced that feeling - of just holding onto something that you think could be very transformational, but you are too afraid to take that step. It had hit India. Or, you have to grow to a demand.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

It's sort of a new form of philanthropy, where average people can be really engaged, make a huge, huge, huge difference, and have a lot of fun at the same time. Our combined donations range anywhere from $21,000-26,000 per month, depending on whether it's July and people are on vacation, or what's going on, and how many chapters meet.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. This time, I had the benefit of help. It was a chance to get exposed to a new set of people.

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Britt Bravo: I think one of the things that make the Global Fund special is how women can submit grants, the lack of bureaucracy involved, and maybe you can talk a little bit about how you choose the people who are funded. What are those issues or areas right now that you are seeing really need the most help?

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