Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

We not only kept that promise, but our family went on to support various projects in Cambodia through my board membership on the Sharing Foundation and through the connections I made through my first blog, Cambodia4kids. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. And there are a lot more ways to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. She also mentioned that the Case Foundation will be doing the giving challenge for a second time , so stay tuned. Was it all hype? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Jane Quigley who I first met via Chris Brogan and my fundraising campaign to send Leng Soparath to college via the Sharing Foundation 's education program. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. Google social search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The money goes to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, I raised the money on my blog. My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. My fourth personal fundraising campaign was to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. .

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