Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Quiet Time: Noisy and busy offices can be stressful due to interruptions that can keep people from getting work done. One example is “ Stop Days ” where there are no meetings and people plan for the next month. Kiva, the microfinance organization, gives a monthly 30-minute recess to enjoy unstructured “play time” at the office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mention the word “network” to most people and their reactions tend to sway between these two polar extremes. Gansky calls these “Mesh” businesses ([link] that leverage data and social networks to allow people to share resources conveniently (a car sitting idle, an extra room in your house). Flickr by Leo Reynolds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This session is: Ideas, people and cold hard cash: why the way we make stuff happen is broken and how to fix it, from Anna Maybank at Social Innovation Camp. Think about 5 things: what’s the problem, what technology you’ll use, design sustainability, how will people come to use it and how will you distribute it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

These are the people behind the great nonprofit Story of Stuff animated environmental videos. This is a new Croatian company that has developed an affordable device that allow disabled people to control their environment with voice commands like ‘turn on the lights’ Miroslav Vrankic was trolling the conference looking for U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

We do this by highlighting (on Twitter and on our website) a cause every week and encouraging people to follow it, tweet its message, and consider making a donation. My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. Enable People to Pre-Commit their Support: We’re all busy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 25, 2009

--Rick Williams, President & CEO of the American Indian College Fund on his blog, In a Good Way. Flipping through the Sunday New York Times earlier this month, I noticed a public service announcement (left) for the American Indian College Fund , with the slogan, "Think Indian: To think Indian is to save a plant that can save a people."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Razoo (iOS) helps you keep track of each donation, track your fundraising progress and thank people when they donate. Windows Phone) brings your Kiva portfolio to your Windows phone.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Chelsea Bocci of Kiva.org also hit on this theme as she discussed several social media engagement campaigns Kiva has done in recent years, and how with each campaign they learn from their mistakes and adjust their strategy to better engage their community. Happy People Give More and Giving People Are Happier. every year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

What I didn't realize about Dining for Women, is that they research and choose the organization that will be receiving the funds from that month's gatherings so that all of the Dining for Women groups meeting across the country are donating to the same thing. This month's organization was the Village Enterprise Fund.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Crowdfunding involves a large number of people funding a program, project, or cause. Runs, relays and extreme challenges (such as climbing Mount Everest) have already motivated people to collect small sums of money from their peers for years. Crowdfunding and Generational Giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

After the call I started wondering, "How do you activate more people to contribute to the solution of a problem that is so horrific it paralyzes people into inaction?" Organizations like Kiva and Dining for Women demonstrate these principles well. It is relatively simple to make a donation using Kiva.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

How do you transition the ways you fund your mission without cracking the foundation? Kiva breaks it. People to people fundraising breaks it. More importantly, are you seeking out people with a healthy appetite for change? This panics some people and drives the passions of others. One day at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Here's how it works. the rest of the world.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The Portland Hotel Society provides housing and advocacy for the "hardest to house": people with mental illness, physical disabilities, HIV/AIDS, a record of criminal activity, and drug addiction. Lots of people get inspired to work at a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving, but organizations always need help. It's just really hard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy. The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica Jackley Flannery is the kind of person who makes you feel at home right away, like she is truly happy to meet you, which is why I wasn't surprised when she said, "Kiva started out of relationships and love, ideally I would love for that to be present in every single transaction that happens. People connecting." What is Kiva?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. If you give a hundred people the tools to lay bricks and get them working off a shared plan, then you can build anything you want. Kiva , charity:water and a few others were mentioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Help Survivors of Slavery and Trafficking Rebuild Their Lives The Emancipation Network and MadeBySurvivors.com , where people can help survivors of human trafficking and slavery to rebuild their lives and to have sustainable income, education and hope. You're making a tangible, lasting difference for both people and nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. How does one track their or the COF only letting those four bloggers live blog or are these the only four people who are attending who might be possibly be blogging? The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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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. It covered many examples of how people were using Facebook for online activism as well as how nonprofits were using it for fundraising.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

It’s an unincorporated community group with no employees, no assets, and no funding. There’s no upper limit on how many people can search, find, and use that information, and the content doesn’t change rapidly. There is no upper limit on how many people can search, find, and use that information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She heads the firm’s practice in women’s issues and global affairs for clients including Women for Women International, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Global Fund for Women, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucille Packard Foundation and many others.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

Isn’t it curious how people who are young and enthusiastic about online communications are so firmly convinced that direct mail is dead or dying – while professional fundraisers, that is, the people who are responsible for bringing in the bucks, think the young critics are living on another planet? nonprofits in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! " Another write up about Kiva. If you want to talk about micro-lending with Kiva for a whole day, here's a Talkathon. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award.

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