Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Whenever I've travel over to Cambodia, I have the opportunity to check two large suitcases up to 70 pounds each. 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

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JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. They wanted to share their stories on my blog and through video and photos. Here is their stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Photo by Oblivion 9999. Nonprofit experts cite many reasons that focusing on an overhead ratio is not the best way to choose a charity: It tells you nothing about the impact the charity has on people it's trying to help. How do you decide whether or not you'll make a donation to a nonprofit organization or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons. I'll be writing a summary for the post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Sina, age 15, is an orphan and head of her family -- two younger sisters aged 11 and 8 (Sina is in photo with the white shirt and blue shorts on the left). Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia so they can attend school. s garment industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

He loved my Mom, his four children, and 7 grandchildren dearly. One of my most memorable Skype calls was when I had forgot to turn switch off SKYPE during a presentation to health care nonprofits about social media in 2007. Please donate to SurfRider Foundation in his memory. Tribute to My Dad. With 6 out 7 grandchildren.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Nancy Hendrie and Tep Vuthea Photo from flickr. Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Why Cambodia? s garment industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. The children sat at their desks, quietly writing the khmer letters on their little chalk boards. Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. Is that cool - the literacy school is green!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. Name your children after them. " Be A Role Model of Generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

I'm a longtime member of the Nonprofit Circuit Riders community. Here's a definition: Circuit riders travel throughout regions of the United States and parts of Europe providing technology assistance to nonprofit organizations. Don't know what that means? As one organization providing such services defines the group: ???Circuit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart! We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it.

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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. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Nancy live blogged Linda Stone's presentation and flickred lots of photos ) I think Annette's points on improving the conference dialogue between ideamakers and toolmakers is something that might be useful at the NTC Conference hosted by N-TEN. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

In September, we asked nonprofits and libraries to show us exactly how technology activates their organization and helps fulfill their mission. Each entry was more compelling than the next, showing us that nonprofits are putting technology in action in incredibly different ways. Want your nonprofit to shine and attract new donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. What was my birthday Wish At Age 6 ? Monday, January 11th is my 53rd Birthday! I hope you'll join the fun. After all, what's more fun than a birthday party?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. I quickly took photos and did a fast video of him explaining it. I, of course, don't have anything to compare it to - other campaigns I've run, other nonprofit campaigns, or some sort of industry benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. This is just a sampling.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

When I was growing up, I was very aware of the class differences, and the different ways that people would treat children who were from lower class families. We have a scholarship fund that gives scholarships to at-risk children along the Thai-Burma border; that is something else that can be gifted in honor of family members.

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