Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. How can your organization apply this?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

The topic of hybrid for-profit/nonprofit enterprises is a big one for me, and these guys are busy setting one up to greatly expand their operations. Plus, they are expanding into other areas of sustainability work, such as solar powered water pumps in rural Bangladesh. They are not just in Dhaka, but a dozen other cities now.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Our Local Impact Map.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. I use examples like Victoria Hale’s nonprofit pharma companies, that take drug ideas that don’t make enough money for traditional pharma, but could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Notes from the Interview with Rachael Chong, Catchafire Catchafire connects nonprofits to probono talent--specifically, they match nonprofit projects with professionals with certain skill sets or interests. Does charge nonprofits they work with. Started up a nonprofit foundation--the US arm of BRAC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

  He is doing this on his own - and not as a nonprofit organization, fundraiser, or charity.   He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques.    He says it better in his own words: I???m m a 27 year old Canadian from Toronto. uncultured???

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

On October 13th Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Grameen Bank, which provides credit to the rural poor of Bangladesh. Just the opposite of Yunus's entry into microfinance: Yunus left theory behind to listen to the poor, and Omidyar seems to rely largely on theory."

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh. SFGate had a story yesterday about the Purpose Prize.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

Bangladesh 2.1%. White/Caucasian 83.3%. Top 10 Countries. United States 24.5%. Singapore 14%. Israel 13.3%. Argentina 5.1%. United Kingdom 4.9%. Spain 3.7%. South Africa 3%. Australia 2.9%. 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. Published in ????????????,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week, I was honored to lead a “networked discussion&# about the Networked Nonprofit and working with free agents in Washington, DC at the State Department’s “ Tech@State Civil Society 2.0 &# Event. I introduced the concept of Free Agents and how they are smashing into the walls of fortress nonprofits.

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

With all that excitement, how should nonprofits think about this emerging technology and the opportunities and risks it might unlock? An even more transformative possibility would be to enable communities to provide verifiable feedback on the services they receive from governments and nonprofits. What is blockchain?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Across the globe there are many recent and well-known cases of social entrepreneurship that follow this pattern of independent sector or civil society working with government, such as Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen family of ventures and Fazle Abed’s BRAC in Bangladesh. The Early Bird deadline ends tonight! Click here to register to attend!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

For several years now, January 1st not only means the beginning of the New Year, but also an opportunity to look at trends in year-end fundraising emails from nonprofit organizations. Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. Emails By Date.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. The balance comes from unrestricted donations to Benetech as a cool overall nonprofit organization!] Your support gives us the resources and capacity we need to continue and grow these efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I heard a wonderful story about a woman from Bangladesh who just scrimped to save a dollar to contribute to them. One is that women can apply for grants by writing a letter, one page, in their own language, in their own handwriting. I mean, what a wonderful idea. The other thing is that they genuinely treat people as equals.

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