Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

The systemic problems in the public school system I worked in overshadowed the impact we were making with our arts programming, and the lack of political and social change aspirations of my career counseling students was starting to trouble me. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Full disclosure: I'm the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Donna Callejon with kids in village in Guatemala - the houses, latrines, etc are being built partly with Global Giving support. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? I met Dennis Whittle, Global Giving's co-founder, at a social entrepreneurship conference in Geneva.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund. We would bring students. I was just finishing my junior year.

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APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. 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.

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