Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program” What Solutions Are Hiding In Our PDFS? : – eMarketer -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. I queried nonprofit colleagues, asking for their best advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

" So, when she emailed me about her plans to raise money to visit Rwanda for this project , I made a contribution and circulated her request. Jen Lemen will visit Grace (12) and Lillian (9), the daughters of Odette Umurerwa, a genocide survivor from Rwanda currently living in the United States. Here's a summary of her plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Pearl Children Care Center I discovered Camera Rwanda's beautiful photo stream when I wrote about it on blogher last January. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0 just posted an interview with her entitled " Camera Rwands: Storytelling using Flickr."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you are reading, I’ll probably have been on a jet plane for far longer than I want to be and maybe have landed in Rwanda. Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations.

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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. Yet, it is not one of the top five reasons nonprofits use social media. Social Media for Your Nonprofit: Take Charge! Social Media: A New Way to Pass Wisdom on to Leaders. Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2014

Twiplomacy aims to identify the extent to which world leaders use Twitter and how they connect on the social network. While some heads of state and government continue to amass large followings, foreign ministers have established a virtual diplomatic network by following each other on the social media platform. Housekeeping'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

But there was something else at play for me this year, my fourth, celebrating my birthday with social media and a networked fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation. One of things I've learned about social media and doing fundraising for causes is that you will be surprised!

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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. If you’re reading this blog, it’s probably because you’re a huge fan of social media and believe that it empowers all of us to connect, create, explore, and understand our world. Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. Program Design.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25). San Francisco, California: Social Impact in Tech: Panel Discussion with LinkedIn, Lyft, and Salesforce. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Crowdsourcing Change: The Social Web to Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. ” It also brings up issues about the r ole of social media and a connected society for delicate diplomacy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Technorati tags: social change photography net2 nptech India Rwanda.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Storymakers presents a unique opportunity to participate in storytelling education and capacity-building with a focus on using Adobe Spark to create social media graphics. Kigali, Rwanda: Storytelling Event. Pangani, Tanzania: Social Media Surgery: Instagram for Farmers and Livestock Keepers. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

ThinkSocial at the Paley Center for Media is dedicated to advancing the use of social media in the public interest. Jacqueline Novogratz , the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund , is certainly one leader from the field of social innovation whom I find incredibly inspiring and thought-provoking. The purpose of ThinkSocial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. Tap Into the Power of Social Proof. charity: water is excellent at using social proof to encourage people to fundraise on their online platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

He invested some of his social capital in my cause and I want to invest in his. Rewards: Dr. Mani offering donors to Roger's campaign a copy of his Social Media Marketing Plan Guide. What is the secret to success of social networking for good? Relationship : It's spring fundraising season and I'm getting spammed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

Is the rapid growth of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) more important than the basic social needs of health, education, etc.? It is a known fact that over half of international aid never makes it to the actual people in need (only 20 percent of aid ever reached Rwanda during its recent genocide).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Fundraising Campaigns and Presentations Camera Rwanda Photo Stream Post with an interview Street Kids Fundraising Campaign raised $8,000 from photo group Sharing Foundation Presentation annotated in a flickr photo set. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites). Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0

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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. And, don't just support Breast Cancer Research on special holidays, every Friday is PeaFund Friday. Join the Red Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I remember being so frustrated with my inability to fully tell the story that I knew was going on, but it was a matter of an absence of historical, political, and social context that I just didn't have. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s. CH: Yes, we do.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

September Campaign 2012 Trailer: Rwanda from charity: water on Vimeo. Post it on your social media networks. See below for an example of concise, effective storytelling, with good pacing and music that appropriately illustrates the content of the video: Video by charity:water. Share your video!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

I've been thinking recently about ways to represent issues (social, political, scientific) in museum settings. Rather than adding more information to my database on Rwanda and genocide, I find myself asking alongside the author, asking myself instead of the authority.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

After creating a stunning visual story, nonprofits must take the step of getting their images seen by as wide an audience as possible, integrating the images into all communications materials, from social media outlets to printed materials.

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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. . Spencer Brodsky.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In November 2021, we joined with our ImpactCloud partners, AWS, nonprofits like NetHope and Mercy Corps , the Pacific Disaster Center , and the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) in a crisis response scenario to a simulated earthquake in Rwanda. The challenges facing humanity in 2021 are intersectional and complex.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color. We are most interested in women of color, and girls of color who are the most economically and socially fragile. Anisha Desai is the Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. I remember talking with Stacey Monk on the phone last November about how difficult it is to set goals for social media infused campaigns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? What are some great examples of creative work that is very effective in social impact?" Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero. Great question!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

So,we just knew that if you wanted to make social change, you had to understand how to connect with women and how to motivate women. So we decided to look at what the private sector had learned, and layer that on top of the social-change sector. They're using social networking more than men and they instinctually connect more.

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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. government intervene, say in Rwanda, or in genocides of the past?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

During our conversation, I was particularly moved by her revelation that she started Women for Women International not only to fill a social need, but also for her own healing. So, we do different things from microcredit lending, to commercial organic farming, to social enterprises, where the job becomes, how do we help her get a job?

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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. Part of Akilah’s program is that students start social businesses to give back to their communities. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 5, 2006

Eight BPeace members traveled to Rwanda in May 2006 and used the Bpeace Rwanda blog to document their trip. One of the team's members, Cari Clement of the Fiber and Craft Entrepreneurial Development Center , also kept her own travel blog, Rwanda Knits, during the trip.

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