Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. Kids need guidance in this area just like they need help learning to tie their shoes, make a sandwich, or write a term paper. Photo by WhiteAfrican. Who knows what’s coming at us? Shameless plug alert!]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bora Vuth, a young man from Cambodia who is attending college here in US, put his finger on it as he joined 136 other people on Facebook who donated to the Sharing Foundation. It makes you feel good to give and celebrate and be part of a network of people doing the same. He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The film that lite the tinderbox of protests is disgusting and insulting to a people of Islamic faith and yes social media can accelerate protests and violent responses quickly (as it can accelerate social good.) “When people who were born and raised in dictatorships. ” Widad E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water , a nonprofit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, is leading the way when it comes to redefining nonprofit marketing; they are exceptional at inbound marketing, focusing on creating powerful content to inspire people to join their cause. We want our donors to be advocates.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

Are we, and if so, how are we configuring our websites in the States so that people anywhere around the globe can see them? But wait, are people in developing areas, and even rural areas, even getting access to the web and/or to mobile technology? It renewed my confidence that less privileged people would indeed benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

The site is a growing community of people who believe that social media used by people and institutions in the public interest -- like print, television and radio in the past -- can enable more effective responses to the social, economic and environmental challenges of our time. Who else should we be highlighting here at ThinkSocial?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Effective storytelling means nonprofits can reach more people, touch more hearts, and create bigger impact. Baltimore, Maryland: Fundraising Tech 101 and Tech Help/Consultations. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group/Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Kigali, Rwanda: Storytelling Event. Europe and UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Reciprocity : Roger Carr helped me with winning the America's Giving Challenge he blogged (more than once I might add), left supportive comments, retweeted to his network ( connected me to Dr. Mani ), and personally donated to my campaign. People (I don't know even know or have a relationship with.) Hint - the three R words.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better! Lastly we always love to receive an individual card in the mail. Please tell your friends, and "like" us on Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? The secondary goal is to provide better free, or fair information to people in these countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." A new service called Qunu that uses IM to match people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help. Today I Cried blog announces that he will quit his job ! Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Now, philanthropic psychology, in its simplest form, is the study of how people love humankind, or sometimes I say how people love people. People shouldn’t only be loving people. People should be loving animals and the planet too.” ” And I absolutely 100% wholeheartedly agree with you.

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JANUARY 30, 2007

I was required to read Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States in high school. In this alternative, the museum takes a stand on an issue (in USHMM's case, genocide), and breathes life into that side of the issue, helping visitors engage with and experience that side of the story. They help you connect. Of course not.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The baby boomers are retiring and young people are kind of coming up into that movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . As I parent, my hope is that by helping my kids find ways to share their passion for giving - they will make it a lifelong habit. Spencer Brodsky.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country. The challenges facing humanity in 2021 are intersectional and complex.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Without Masi’s powerful images and well-crafted visual essay, the story of The Bhopal Medical Appeal would not have reached the millions of people that it did. At SFAI, Christy wrote her MA Thesis on Alfredo Jaar's The Rwanda Project, looking specifically at the impact of photographic representations of Africa in the American media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. In a google document , some how they put the word out and 66 people signed up to blog and tweet about the birthday wish propelling its success! Design for People To Self Organize.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Real people were behind the organization. Women want to be engaged in something where real people are at. Use real examples of real people. They want to hear stories of people that look just like them. With women, you want to appeal to people's sense of group affiliation. And that's really important. They're busy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Britt Bravo: Why should people care about genocide? JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. How would you answer that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. At the end of the year, upon their graduation, the goal becomes, how can we help them get a job? That's the story of Women for Women. We will lose our success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Her vision to create an opportunity for these young people share their authentic voice about their work. All these taught me how to become a human right activist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) :: @ PETA. charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. FINCA :: @ FINCA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Florida. How do we help leadership understand the value of engaging in social communications?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. The outcome will hopefully improve Amnesty’s effectiveness, helping more people in the long run.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Through the blistering heat and through rain storms, she walked over 150 miles to Bukavu, a village that had become a haven for people fleeing the war. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. And walked. And walked.

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APRIL 2, 2008

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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