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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JANUARY 29, 2013

Facebook Tests Giving Platform - TheNonProfitTimes : Facebook Tests Giving Platform - 01/24/2013 Facebook rolled out an experimental giving platform that allows users to donate $25 to any of a dozen charities. The social networking platform might expand the program later in 2013. or Blue Star Families.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Michael also is founder of the UK-based fundraising firm Xtraordinary, and the co-founder of two global fundraising products, The Global Legacy Giving Group and the sports-based Fantasy Fundraising. 17% of Gen Y, 7% of Gen X, 2% of Boomers, and 2% of Civics would consider making a donation on their mobile phone through text-to-give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

This could be a pizza or taco party or giving comp time. One organization has a silly banana statue that they give to the “Top Banana” for the month. Give them a cake or have everyone sign a birthday card with a small gift. You can decorate their office door, give them a birthday hat, or sing happy birthday.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

could go towards giving the people you love a gift, and making the world a better place? Empower an Entrepreneur with a Kiva Loan. You can give a Kiva gift certificate for as little as $25. I bet former President Bill Clinton will be giving out a few of these this year. Give a Child a Laptop, Get a Child a Laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

Read about that in “ How nonprofits are cashing in on the crytocurrency trend ” 3. In March, Airbnb announced a plan “ Shared City ,” a multi-faceted collaboration designed to give back to the communities it serves — beginning with the city of Portland, Ore.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The social side of giving : ow various organisations, from Justgiving to Virgin Money Giving, have made it easier to organise online donations, while new charities like Help4Heroes and Kiva have shown how it's possible to use the web to promote a cause and get funds flowing rapidly and efficiently. BBC News - Charity 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And Kiva ([link] builds on already existing networks (including that network of networks we call the Internet) to give people the opportunity to loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. They give community members a very concrete piece of information to take advantage of. The Value of Specificity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2008

On Saturday I completed the 29-Day Giving Challenge that I posted about last month. First I gave away money, then stuff, then advice, and then my giving became more intangible. I came to realize that, at least for me, the most difficult thing to give away sometimes is compassion for individuals I encounter in every day life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book. They are giving away 500 paperback copies of The Blue Sweater in quantities of 25, 50, or 100 books to organizations that can leverage the ideas.

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Site Search is probably the easiest thing in the world to add a dedicated site search box to your 404 page, so that if they do know what it was they were looking for, why not give them an easy way to find it. This encourages people who may not have visited your site previously, and drives the conversion of people back onto your main website.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Last night I went to my first giving circle using the Dining for Women model, and it was pretty inspiring. I am looking forward to our next giving circle and learning about more ways that women can help women. giving circle microloan microlending microfinance Big thanks to Kris Wolcott and Kristen Byrne for organizing the event!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. told me early on that one of the reasons Kiva works is that you see the exact goat herder you’re helping with your loan (not to mention read his story and look at his pictures).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Another iPhone application is Give Work , a collaborative effort by CrowdFlower, a professional crowdsourcing service provider, and Samasource , a non-profit organization that trains youths and refugees to use computers, and by extension to find sustainable employment. Put another way, an iPhone application to put thumbs to good use.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

– Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "According to the study, “women at every income level give to charity more often than men do. Women Rule the Philanthropic Roost! What’s more, at almost every income level, the amount women gave exceeded that of men in comparable circumstances.

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MAY 1, 2009

. * A Kiva.org gift certificate so your mom can choose a woman entrepreneur to give a loan to. * A Good Card from Network for Good your mom can use to donate to the nonprofit of her choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Or, if you're a US blogger and participated in Blog Action Day you be lucky enough to get an email from Kiva B2B that they are giving away 300 hundred copies to participant bloggers. And if budgets are tight, you might be able to pick up a used version on Amazon. And the lucky winner is Cynthia Hanna from People Helping People.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Windows Phone) brings your Kiva portfolio to your Windows phone. Facebook) uses mGive's text-to-give platform to bring easy donating to Facebook. Users can add the Giving application to their Facebook profile and then browse for their favorite nonprofit or charity. At stake is a small donation to a charity of your choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I attended a panel called "The Future of Social Innovation on the Web" This all-guy panel was facilitated by Dennis Whittle, Global Giving and featured Premal Shah, Kiva.org; Jonathan Greenblatt, Our Good Works; Steve Newcomb, Virgance; and Ben Rattray, Change.org. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning. Don't give up.

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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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AUGUST 29, 2011

I guess Kiva has attained sufficient mindshare to become a phishing tool. Sender: Kiva Micro Financial Loan Company <kiva@yahoo.com> Subject: APPLY FOR YOUR LOAN AS LOW AS 0.2%. We give out loans within the. of beating your self up, contact Kiva Micro Financial Loan Company now, Loan. which is Our Mission.*

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

Below are some of the tips the panelists shared for how to get folks engaged for change online: Give instant, bite-sized feedback. Bay Area The Hub social innovation web activism Kiva Change.org Virgance The panelists were Matt Flannery of Kiva.org , Steve Newcomb of Virgance, and Ben Rattray of Change.org. Help people feel powerful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! He contributed to the Facebook Cause and also to Global Giving page if that icon below is you Adam. I should say that I'm trying to encourages as many people to make their donation through Global Giving. That's Adam Nicholson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0 Soren welcomed everyone and asked to be totally present and give full attention – which is becoming rarer and rarer at conferences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 2, 2008

They recommend giving to the United Nations World Food Program and America’s Second Harvest. How will you spend your economic stimulus check? FinancialAidPodcast suggests paying down your debt, putting it in a savings account, or donating to a charitable organization. Flickr Photo Credit: Money uploaded by Jennifer R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

And, to bring this post full circle, I'm giving a way a copy of Chris Brogan's Trust Agents. and referring to a post last Friday by Sean at Tactical Philanthropy breaking the news that Twitter had added charities to its list of suggested users. Sean listed the new users: The new “suggested users” are: Social Edge. Skoll Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Not about finding people to give it to or the decision process, but the different financial instruments we could use. What can we do with groups like Kiva? We asked our prototype projects what else they need. The answer was they need advice. Organizations that are trying to support people to do new things know this.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Social Actions’ actions come from Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch and others. All for Good has Google behind it, which gives it power of course, and we hope very much that they will build upon and not feel in competition with Social Actions.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Where are the stories of the courageous people who through their own efforts, or with a little leg up such as a Kiva loan, overcome their material poverty to create a brighter tomorrow for themselves and their communities, one person at a time. . There’s a lot of doom and gloom around at the moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

The information products for better giving are not as good as they will be, we have not yet seen all of the forms they will take, nor are they widely deployed or integrated into other financial management tools. But we’re getting there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Allan Benamer, of the nonprofittechblog , gives us an answer: The three biggest success stories so far are modestneeds.org, globalgiving.com and Kiva. None of those three are social networking properties. The biggest nonprofit social network is Project Agape's Causes with 4,000,000 users and counting.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Organizations like Kiva and Dining for Women demonstrate these principles well. It is relatively simple to make a donation using Kiva. If you scroll to the bottom of this page on Kiva , you will see the nine people (including me) who made a loan to Beatrices Amoka. Make it creative (ignite their imagination).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Thanks to wonderful organizations like Kiva , and the ONE Campaign , people are becoming more aware of the huge difference a small loan, or donation to an international organization can make to purchase a net to prevent malaria, or help a family start a business. Start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

In the nonprofit sector, we have micro-fundraising (giving small amounts of money on social networks like Twitter). Allison mentions a few more like mico-finance like Kiva's small loans to entrepreneurs here and abroad. . On the tools side, we have micro formats, micro blogging, micro media, and more. In a session at the Web 2.0

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MAY 23, 2008

Low tide gives way to high tide and back again. Kiva breaks it. presidential election are giving us a whole new glimpse of the multi-channel communication and fundraising industrial complex in action. It can be a great place to live if you are willing to give it a try. We live our lives between the tides. Care2 breaks it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Here's how it works: "The more you give, the better your chance to win." Each $10 you donate will give you one raffle ticket toward a prize of your choice. Choose a prize or prizes of your choice from the Menu for Hope Have a meal of your life. Delicious experiences. Feasts for the eyes: books and more. Tasty treats. Cooks' tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? This vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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