Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reeta Roy , president and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation, is sending tweets from her site visit to Uganda and Kenya. Reeta is currently in Uganda, where she’s learning first-hand about the Foundation’s partnerships and programs.

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KONY, Networked Nonprofits, and Transparency

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The campaign prompted discussion online and here in the US about KONY, although hardly anyone in Uganda is talking about him. The issue is complex. The KONY video simplified it, but left out important facts. Is that responsible social change? For responsible social change, you need transparency.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example, Mary Grace Henry and her project, Reverse the Course , a site where she sells reversible headbands that she sews and donates all profits to support girls education in Uganda. This generation is doing more than clicking on line, they making change in the world! And, they have generosity in their genes.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. While video can be expensive to produce, it can also produce large returns. One way to make video more affordable is to reuse existing assets.

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Jen Lemen Raises Over $3,000 in 24 Hours for Rwanda Project

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s experience as a seven-year-old Tutsi girl living in poverty in a refugee camp in Uganda. On this trip, Jen will distribute a small independently published book written by Odette Umurerwa and illustrated by Jen Lemen. ???Let???s s Learn How To Help Ourselves and Others??? tells the true story of Odette ???s

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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