Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Over a year ago, I interviewed Carnet Williams , a long time member of the nonprofit technology and riders community and who recently launched a tool called Chipin which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Care2 who runs this blog is a sponsor too. Your Organization Can Win Up to Another $50,000. This is an inclusive event where both women and men are encouraged to be a part of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

Three weeks ago, using what I learned from my first personal fundraising campaign , I launched a second campaign to raise money for the Sharing Foundation education programs using the Network For Good Charity Badge and entering the Yahoo! Read more at BlogHer Students in the Sharing Foundation's English Program at Roteang Village.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. " So, when she emailed me about her plans to raise money to visit Rwanda for this project , I made a contribution and circulated her request. I was going to blog it on BlogHer for my next deadline, but Jen raised what we she needed in 24 hours.

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MARCH 6, 2009

A March 2008 report in Science magazine, Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness , found that, "spending more of one's income on others predicted greater happiness both cross-sectionally (in a nationally representative survey study) and longitudinally (in a field study of windfall spending)." Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Through volunteering, donating classes to community raffles, and holding events to raise money for various causes, I've always hoped that I was planting seeds of happiness for others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. I can't wait to share what I learn with the Blogher Community). I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Maybe we should consider adding it to BlogHers Act ? She is using her blog to raise money to support the first Community Access television station in Ghana, Coastal Television in Cape Coast Ghana. Cross posted at BlogHer. SamLand is Shirley Mayfield's blog. She is going to Ghana in November. In Kenzo is a network weaver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

Ponzi, who I met at blogher, loves postcards. We created postcards for the Sharing Foundation to see to raise money. She has a wonderful tradition - sending other bloggers postcards from her travels. Most recently, she visited Bangkok. I was the lucky recipient of the above postcard with the cool Red Cross stamp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. The topics: * What does it mean to be a "conversation community"? Are you an alternative world news agency? A stage for global activism? An international collection of diaries?

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

Bloggers compete against each other to raise the most money for specific projects in low-income public schools. Check out the projects some BlogHers are raising money for. The 2008 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge for public schools is happening this month. As of this writing, $168,941 dollars has been raised by 2,058 donors.

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APRIL 11, 2008

Your 29 gifts can be anything, "material objects, money, your time, smiles or kind thoughts." I signed up for the Challenge today and decided to celebrate Day 1 by donating to the BlogHers Act' "Donate Now to Save Women's Lives" campaign on Global Giving. As of this writing, 128 people have joined. And so I have begun the challenge."

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

All bought from an artist so grateful to be earning money from their work. When you visit me in my art studio, you'll drink tea out of cups I've bought from Marrakesh, and eat tapas from dishes handmade in Spain. You'll see a small oil painting from a favorite Parisian painter, and folk art from five continents and counting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I didn't come up with the title, but considering I gave a talk at BlogHer last summer called " Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money " and I'm on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit: How Nonprofits Are Using Web Tools To Kick Ass Online " it sort of fits. Any advice to calm my nerves?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious at BlogHer this summer. At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. I meet Candace N. I immediately noticed her t-shirt because I have the same one. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

The money Jasmin will raised will be used to help 15 to 30 entrepreneurial poor (mainly women) to form a Trust Bank. Beth Kanter, BlogHer Editor for Social Change and Nonprofits, writes Beth's Blog. .  (You can see an example of a slideshare (and some early contributions) here.)  They will co-guarantee each other???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Almost two years ago at the first Blogher Conference I was lucky enough to interview and get to know Lisa Canter (we aren't related but I learned a few things about the kanter/canter name from her husband, Marc ). I also include some specific ways folks can help other give money. Lisa's post is here. I enjoy reading Lisa's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

The image is from Roger Carr who is raising money to support the Arthritis Foundation???s And relationship building can scale into a networked approach - take a look at the most recent BlogHer's Act fundraising campaign to improve maternal health. Photo from Roger Carr's Juvenile Arthritis Weekend Set You can donate here.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. ChipIn allows a group of people to collect money online whether it is for a birthday gift, a party or a fundraiser. She sits on their board. 750 will cover her college fees and living expenses.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Next week, Beth Kanter will be continuing this BlogHer series about getting started using social media for your nonprofit, or do-good project with posts about social networking, connecting offline and online action, and raising money on social networks. Relationships that were formed through your blog.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Beth Kanter posted an incredible photo today on blogher and netsquared (click on one of them to see it) taken from the camera_rwanda blog. Camera_Rwanda is using photography to raise awareness and money to send Rwandan orphans to college. You must visit this blog and see the photos.

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JULY 30, 2006

The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance. Sara’s readers requested a PayPal account so that they could donate money for her to distribute to local organizations when she delivered supplies. Tips from Dina 1.

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DECEMBER 12, 2008

Give money to causes you are passionate about. Finally, in their post, Establish a Giving Plan , Free Money Finance outlines how they create their annual giving plan: 1. Cross-posted from BlogHer Flick photo credit: $5700 by Andrew Magill money holiday giving donation tithe plan Find your passion.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

ECHOage sends out an evite which allows the recipients to make an online gift of money. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Here are more ideas from the blogosphere: The Mom Salon writes about ECHOage: Teaching Children About Giving Back. I like this idea 'cause you are getting one gift for you, and one gift that helps others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A local radio announcer in Vancouver (Buzz Bishop of 95Crave) approached me to join his 95CRAVE Team Diabetes crew, a group of passionate runners raising money to support the Canadian Diabetes Association. What have you learned about personal fundraising that might be helpful to other bloghers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box! I learned how to type while I was in music school so I could temp to make some extra money. Perhaps it may be helpful to others who have not live blogged before.

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MAY 14, 2008

First I gave away money, then stuff, then advice, and then my giving became more intangible. For more information about joining the 29-Day Giving Challenge, go to [link] , and check out what other bloggers are saying about it: Monday was Day 29 for BlogHer Editor Green LA Girl , and today is Day 29 for the Chief Family Officer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?"

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MAY 27, 2009

Even if you feel like you need more experience, more skills, more time, more money, more confidence, more whatever before you can pursue your dream, take a step, even if it is a small one, towards your dreams. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Not breaking big dreams down into small actions. Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Shortly before the Blogher July 2005 conference, I got a new digital camera that came with a video feature. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. "Nonprofits are always running close to the edge in terms of money and time. Here's a synthesis.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Elisa Camahort Page is the co-founder and COO of BlogHer Inc, the largest community of women who blog, and the future of women's lifestyle programming.where women actively participate and can integrate their perspectives on everything from parenting to politics, food to finance. I started getting lots of information about animal right issues.

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AUGUST 23, 2006

That’s why I started interviewing women (and men) for the Big Vision Podcast , and my Solutionary Women series on BlogHer who get up in the morning and have a big vision for a better world as their alarm clock. Sometimes it’s hard to get up in the morning and be fearless, to have courage, to care. I think that is where it starts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. How do you as a progressive, compassionate person decide which causes to donate money to? Why did you launch your company? After 9/11/01 in New York, the economy was truly dismal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Epic change raises money to provide micro-loans in developing countries. Even though I'm more like twenty-something times 2.5, Why did I go? So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable. . $5 Epic Change Blog is written by Stacey Monk.

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JUNE 19, 2009

He was able to get some work digging pit latrines to put himself through one semester of his remaining high school education, and then he ran out of money. The biggest problem with international development is that people don't know where their money is going. Are they going to have to spend more of their money on shoes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Does it make sense for an organization dedicated to education to spend money buying software from a company that is dedicating itself to making it easier for all content to be controlled in a way that makes it harder and more expensive to access? Cross posted at Blogher These are the kinds of questions I want people to think about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Valerio sent me a copy of his new book that covers the best practices of all aspects of raising money – a bible for development professionals. I’ve been writing a blog for over a decade and in the early days I got a big boost from Blogher, co-founded by Elisa Camahort Page, one of the co-authors of this book.

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