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America's Giving Challenge: Bloggers Campaign Roundup

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I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. The students are the children of the poorest families of Roteang Village and who participate in the Sharing Foundation's farm project. Roger recently shared some thoughts about why he is participating in the bloggers campaign.

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Join the Blogger Challenge: Raise Funds for Public Schools

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DonorsChoose has launched a new program called BloggersChoose which allows bloggers to search through mini-grant proposals that school teachers have submitted to DonorsChoose, and ask their readers to fund them. To be deemed eligible for free lunch, a student must submit a form showing family income at or below 130% of the poverty line.

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

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The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

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A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Good Luck Wanna on Your Thesis and Thank You for Supporting the Sharing Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wanna Kahn is a Cambodian college student studying engineering in Vietnam. Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. If you are a blogger and want to participate in this blogger's campaign, you can sign up here.

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Transparency, Social Media, and Dealing with Criticism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo from Wokka. Charback's witty post describes a fictional (but ripped from the headlines) situation of a corporate blogger who has to address a customer's negative, vocal, but accurate criticism on the customer's blog. " And I changed the word blogger to social networker or facebooker.

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Tech and NGO T-Shirts for Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 There were more than enough t-shirts for the Cambodian bloggers (probably enough for some bloggers to get more than one). Like street hawkers.