Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Do nonprofits have an obligation to consider morality of the sources of their funding? Much of the “good” done throughout history has been financed by what one could call “repentant sinners,” such as Carnegie with his libraries, funded by the exploitation of labor in the days of the robber barons. Our choices and our voices matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

As a board member of Ushahidi and an advisor to Global Voices - very pleased to see them on the list of recipients which also included those listed below.

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APRIL 16, 2021

cut funding for drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. WildAid uses a proven track record of success with a unique model that will support anti-wildlife consumption and anti-poaching in Asia and Africa, with the support of donations and awareness. Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

It’s important that you understand that if anyone donates to your nonprofit on any of these sites, the funds are mailed to the contact information your nonprofit has in GuideStar. International Development Exchange touts that a $100 donation initiates a rural women’s organic farming collective inSouth Africa.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. Fundraising is the primary draw for service providers to SIBs, which are often assumed to be brand new funding. and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We need every solution and every solver…What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices — the full spectrum of ideas and insights for now we can turn things around.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. “To address our climate emergency, we must rapidly, radically reshape society. Wilkinson, ‘All We Can Save’.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

It is an outrage that girls account for 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa, and 40% of women on the continent suffer from anemia which results in 20% of maternal deaths. The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. You can make a donation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Africa the next Chapter??? The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices. She has put her knowledge to work for sustainable development on the ground in Madagascar when interning for the local municipality and focusing on improving the living conditions of the country's poorest neighborhoods.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices. Vital Voices identifies, invests in, and brings visibility to working women around the world. NCWIT is an organization working to improve diversity across the entire academic and corporate spectrum.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

Dara met some impressive young activist associated with NGOs doing great work in the Muslim world: Crowdvoice.org is a social media site that tracks voices of protest by collecting and contextualizing data, such as eyewitness videos, photos, and reports to raise awareness about current social justice movements worldwide.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

That’s why we added in a general profile picture and some text around the organization’s impact beforehand, all in the voice of the fundraiser, so that the page is engaging even if it’s not updated by the individual fundraisers. If S/HE raises $3,000, S/HE could qualify for a trip to one of their programs in South Africa!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Fund their work! Invest in organizations like Women Made Gallery , American Women Artists , the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts , WGAW , and the National Museum of Women in the Arts which help give a voice and a future to female artists worldwide. Want to see more women at the forefront of scientific discoveries?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

Raise funds 3. Not On Our Watch , on the other hand, ends with an eight page Appendix of ideas and resources for change. Their Six Strategies for Effective Change are: 1. Raise awareness 2. Write letters 4. Call for divestment 5. Join an organization 6.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

60% of the world’s youth are living in Africa without proper access to education, and also in other regions of the world we’re still feeling the impact of two and a half years of young people being out of education due to the pandemic. What he says is not just being said from one country, one party perspective or one company.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

New voices energizing conversations. Global Fund for Community Foundations / Johannesburg, (Int.) South Africa / $250. South Africa. AIDF Africa Summit. AIDF Africa Summit. Independent Sector / Washington, DC / $1,625. New partnerships with other sectors. New ways to collaborate with each other. 11/28/2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

When I was there last fall, I met a young woman named Paola Pereira who was the first woman in the history of this community to graduate from high school, thanks to the help from this scholarship fund. She's now in college, so she's broken another historic barrier. She's the first person in the history of this entire area to go on to college.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. Lloyd Gedye’s great “ 10 innovative apps which are reshaping Africa ” report is definitely worth looking at.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We really try and get women from all walks of life to be able to participate in our program, the goal being to provide as many unique voices and opportunities as possible. I am working with a foundation right now trying to plan out our Africa initiative for the remainder of the year. The path is laid out very clearly now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

The Voices of Davos This meeting is all about conversations. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week. Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa), talked about the opportunities in market failure. Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa), talked about the opportunities in market failure.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. So think about that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Having a voice empowers us to make a better world. everydayafrica was started by a photographer who wanted to show everyday life in Africa was not just famine, war, and disease. Charles Wells gave an inspiring talk about the power of crowd funding and peer to peer fundraising that the Just Giving Platform enables.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

For the past 26 years, she has contributed organizational and individual value as a thought leader, manager, author, mentor, coach and consultant throughout the United States, and in selected projects in Africa and Central America. So how do we make sure that our funding base is balanced to represent the 99% as well as the 1%?

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models. For example, vaccination rates in parts of Africa are barely a few percent, while most EU countries’ rates range from 80-90%. Interconnectedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

What challenges do women who tech in Africa and Middle East face? 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. (I made a small donation and hope you might consider a small gift too). Are these similar or different than in the US?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

This requires the global community to center the voices of people directly impacted by poverty in its approach and support solutions that empower children and their families. CRUS’ Innovation and Growth Fund , launched in 2021, will contribute significantly to the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We wanted to encourage them to find their voice, and to become leaders in their own right in their own local community. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. Of course, it came down to, as it should, funding. We'll supply the funding. It really didn't matter to us. I thought, "Great.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. And one of their roles is to bring their voice." Sissel of the Sissel Byington Photography blog sponsors a women each year.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. So during Suicide Prevention Month, there was a campaign called Seize the Awkward, and they ran a three-day Twitch event to raise awareness and raise funds, where people on Twitch that were doing live streams. I’m happy to send it to you afterwards. So I was a journalism major in college.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

A blog was really perfect for me, because first of all, it was a very casual voice -- it's not very formal. I want to thank Britt for putting the panel together and just for her work in inspiring women leaders, and getting our voices out there, and recognizing our work - and also to the organizers. We are a 3.5

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