Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. Use an “ After Action Review ” process to debrief what worked and what did not work about your event with your team using your documentation. One of the more popular with nonprofits is ThunderClap. This will come in handy for the next event you plan.

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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. Emily Esch works on bringing practical digital literacy and citizenship resources to schools around the globe through www.commonsense.org/educators. Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

But they also asked to share how I've impacted their work , and by pointing that out has been created a very meaningful birthday gift. I've had the honor to work many people who are using social media for social change or fundraising, support their work, cheer them on, and learn from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good. Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others. About the Prize.

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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. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group/Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Kigali, Rwanda: Storytelling Event. Research Triangle, North Carolina: Topic TBD. Seattle, Washington: Springboard 2017 Graduation. Houston, Texas: Netsquared Houston: Storymakers 2017! Thursday, September 21, 2017. Monday, September 25, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Mani, who was a master of personal fundraising with his CHD Awareness Day and who also helped with the America's Giving Challenge, was featured in a 2006 FAST COMPANY magazine report about his work online helping children with congenital heart defects. The article was titled: ???Dr.Mani Dr.Mani - Spamming for Good???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

We can now discuss, highlight and organize around the initiatives that work. Jacqueline also talks at length about the Rwanda Genocide and how it would have been significantly different had social media been as prevalent then as it is now. The purpose of ThinkSocial.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

As a result, the UN is making the same mistakes it made on Darfur and Rwanda. Abolish forever the restrictive articles in the Foreign Correspondents Guide that limit the media’s freedom of movement and work. We are calling on people of conscience throughout the world to boycott the 2008 Chinese Olympics."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Do you have a special techie in your life who works for a nonprofit? You can purchase a gift or card that provides AIDS grants in Ghana, Rwanda, and Swaziland. Why not send some geek love from NTEN ? And, don't just support Breast Cancer Research on special holidays, every Friday is PeaFund Friday. Join the Red Campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Barbara worked for my Dad at the Mystic Seaport Museum , and every year she would knit gifts for my parents and I. When I was growing up, every Christmas I would get a bumpy package with a card that said, For: Britt, From: Barbara Gould in criss-crossy handwriting. One year she made each of us a sweater with a story.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

Closing speaker Michael Fairbanks (one of the unforgettable speakers of the event), raised some eyebrows but generated huge applause when he stressed introspection and the importance of stepping back and re-evaluating "who you want to be as an organization" and "really evaluating what worked (in terms of projects) and what did not, and why?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda. New(to me) Blogs Good Works Grapvine covers social media and strategies for Non-Profits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water even has an entire section of their site dedicated to stories from the field, where people who work for or collaborate with the nonprofit tell stories about the experiences they’ve had bringing clean water to people in Rwanda, Uganda, Bangladesh and more. Make storytelling a central part of your marketing efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. BB: What is the path that brought you to this work personally? I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco. We are pushing an envelope there.

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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." It is called " The Art of Social Web " Coolcat Teacher blog gives a wonderful post about how blogging is a work in progress - she concludes blogging is more like football than a once in a lifetime performance at Carnegie Hall.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Maybe you would like to raise awareness around a certain issue that your organization works to address. You can do this in your video by including interviews and showing those that have been impacted by your organization’s work. Don’t have a fancy video editor to work with? Are you raising money for a particular campaign?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.

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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. But what about those tools that weren’t?

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) worked with photographer James Morgan to produce images that not only tell a story , but also draw viewers in and drive them to learn more about the organization. Before relocating to San Francisco, she worked in New York with the Aperture Foundation, the International Center of Photography, and UnionDocs.

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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. . With her children's fundraising projects, she and her husband offered to match what they raised because they both worked for companies that matching gift programs. Spencer Brodsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. You need to find what works for you to shift you into that mindset. But they also asked to share how I've impacted their work , and by pointing that out created a very meaningful birthday gift. Final Slides PoST View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Lisa Witter: Over the years, Lisa and I, we've been working together for more than nine years, really have had an opportunity to look at how philanthropy is changing and the role that women are playing in society. And we've done that through working with a lot of "women's issues" clients. They thought, men and women, sort of the same.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

As part of the Genocide Intervention Network's general membership, the student division is very vocal piece, and we also have our adult and community members who are out there in the field, in the weeds, organizing their elected officials to do more work on genocide. how does that work exactly? How would you answer that?

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Is it working for you, Jen? Jen: Yeah, it’s working for my side, but I can’t see what you’re sharing. So today, I will only share with you a few examples of how our graduates from our courses have applied these ideas into their own work. She works as a fundraiser in the organization. Here we go.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

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. You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Right now, we are working with 53,000 women on a monthly basis in eight conflict areas. I just came from Congo and met with her, and a lot of other women in Congo and Rwanda and I am constantly amazed. Every single one.

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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. I work as a trainer and capacity builder for nonprofits and technology and more lately social media and networked approaches. This is an important employment skill for them.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

SOS Children’s Villages works to stop more than half a million children ending up alone, abandoned or in institutions. Wildlife SOS works toward protecting Indian wildlife, conserving habitat, studying biodiversity, conducting research and creating alternative and sustainable livelihoods for erstwhile poacher communities.

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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. prospect that things might not work out. for organizations.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2014

This year several nonprofits and leaders who are doing innovating work to create social change movements, submitted terrific panels in hopes of carving out a bigger track related to activism. Meaningful Marketing: Working for the Greater Good. New Models in Higher Ed: From Texas to Rwanda. Vote Here: [link] sxsw.com/vote/41802.

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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. Describe the work you do for Amnesty International. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog.

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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). She posted a scan of one of the letters she received on her post, Two Great Charities at Work to Beat Poverty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

In the Voices of Genocide Prevention interview , Christine Karumba said that Honorata now works for Women for Women International training other women to, " understand their role in participating in rebuilding of their community. And one of their roles is to bring their voice." She received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

You can also use Network For Good Good Card , it works like a debit card and the recipient gets to donate to any charity of their choice. " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them." " Stephen Downes suggests a boycott, but points out it is no cakewalk.

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