Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda. How LinkedIn’s New Profile Section Can Help Nonprofits Fundraise, Find the People They Need. Her blog, Vistas provides insights, strategies, techniques, and solutions that help values-driven businesses realize their social-change missions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. Some nonprofits are experimenting with a group of tools called “Amplifiers” that allow you sign up your fans and friends to tweet all together at the start of the event. One of the more popular with nonprofits is ThunderClap.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help and Consultations. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Can Appmaker Help You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

I met Spencer Brodsky last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda. He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. So, being able do some real time network weaving while the birthday campaign was unfolding was highly satsifying. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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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. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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MAY 1, 2009

World Food Programme to help a mother feed her child. Your mom will receive a a handmade card made by a woman in their program in Rwanda. . * Room to Read's Girls' Education program. During the month of May, all donations made to the Girls' Education program will be matched (up to $100,000) by an anonymous donor. *

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Submissions must demonstrate that the nominee's work helps nonprofits both increase their effectiveness and help them motivate and communicate to their constituents. Since 2005, nonprofits have downloaded it more than 13,000 times to send news, communicate information on critical issues, and serve as an emergency help line.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

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. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Thursday, August 17, 2017.

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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. s annual nationwide event, Arthritis Walk, that raises awareness and funds to fight arthritis.

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MAY 20, 2009

I love hearing such inspiring stories and participating in any development initiative -- my heart lies in the pursuit of helping others, but how you define that help and the priorities of those in need, have to be well assessed and taken into consideration. Empowerment is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

You can purchase a gift or card that provides AIDS grants in Ghana, Rwanda, and Swaziland. The money helps women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. A percentage of each (PRODUCT)RED product sold is given to The Global Fund. Save the Children hopes to start a new tradition of sending Save the Children Valentine's Day Cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

What examples have you seen that further exemplify social media’s role in helping to affect social change? She emphasizes how important journalists are in helping to tell stories, both internally and from the outside and how these stories have the potential to reach more people through social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The USIP has been doing some really interesting work looking at this issue around “ dangerous speech ,” stemming from incitement during the Rwanda genocide. Co-create narratives with global partners that are based in local voice and respect for local communities, and invest in building networks that aim at community vitality.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

She profiles organizations like Afghans for Afghans that collects knitted goods for orphanages, clinics and children's hospitals in Afghanistan; Rwanda Knits that provides knitting machines and training to help Rwandan women increase their incomes; Peace Fleece that sells knitting yarn made from blends of Israeli and Palestinian wools; ChemoCaps that (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you are interested in online fundraising but don’t have the resources to build a custom platform for donations like charity: water, there are applications that help nonprofits get started with online fundraising quickly, including Salsa and Network for Good. But charity: water didn’t decide on this value proposition haphazardly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. " 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

Expressing their emotions so openly was a new and uneasy task, but with the help of a wonderful facilitator, Conso Buzabo , they intuitively shared their compassionate connections through simple art making. Anyone with a desire to enact change, empower women and girls, and help battle oppression is invited to share their voice and join us.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s. BB: How can listeners help?

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JANUARY 30, 2007

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. They help you care. Stories are compelling. But is stand-taking always right for museums? Of course not.

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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.

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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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OCTOBER 4, 2011

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. Christy helped found the San Francisco-based digital photography publication, Once Magazine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. BB: I read in one of your bios that you received a Fulbright grant to go to Rwanda and study the reconciliation process. It is like a dream come true.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Now, in the charity context, the most straightforward way to think about this is how can we love the people who need our help? It could be people who needed help today to help themselves. And they can simply ask supporters, “If you make a donation today, you can help end leprosy. It could be partners.

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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. For example, I noticed that Spencer Brodsky , who I helped last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda, re-tweeting the birthday call to action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Women for Women International is an organization that helps survivors of war rebuild their lives, and more than just rebuild their own lives, they rebuild countries by rebuilding their own lives. I learn about women in Rwanda, and they learn about my life. We can't help but want to sing the song. That's really important.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

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. JG: I think it may be helpful if I explain how it works. Why didn't the U.S.

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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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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? Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 5, 2006

They help women living in regions of conflict and post-conflict start businesses. Eight BPeace members traveled to Rwanda in May 2006 and used the Bpeace Rwanda blog to document their trip. The Fiber and Craft Entrepreneurial Development Center (FACED) provides knitting machines and training to women living in Rwanda.

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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. Giselle has been using Razoo to help raise funds for her to make the trip and she still has a way to go before reaching her goal.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The American Nicaraguan Foundation is a nonprofit that provides basic needs and tools for people to help stop poverty in Nicaragua. Gorilla Doctors :: @ GorillaDoctors.

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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

It is a jack-of-all trades position: I do everything from helping to maintain our Intranet, manage our internal news bulletin, work with our Board of Directors, conduct research that helps shape the strategic direction of our organization, and more. What should AIUSA’s role be in improving or resolving those situations?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). Each woman is paired with a sponsor whose donation helps to cover some of their basic necessities (food, water, medicine).

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