Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Not long after we received our final letter from Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman our family has been sponsoring for college over the past four years, the first royalty check from The Networked Nonprofit arrived! Sharing knowledge, social media, and supporting young people in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2010

Somaly Mam , Cambodia woman, is an anti-slavery activist and survivor fighting for victims all over the world. Human Trafficking is a huge issue around the world, especially in Cambodia. I noticed her tweet tonight after Spenser Brodsky's tweet about my birthday campaign connected me to her. She graduates this year!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. I met Christina Arnold who told me about her NGO and their work in Cambodia. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2008

Two years ago, my family and I made a commitment to sponsor Leng Sopharath, a young woman from Cambodia, for her college education through the Sharing Foundation 's education program. Without the Sharing Foundation's college education program, she would not be able to make a better life for herself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

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? She is entering her second year as an accounting major at a university in Phnom Penh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Having implemented a successful campaign to raise the money to support a young college student named Leng Sopharath in Cambodia that raised $872 using the ChipIn widget, I set up a charity badge over at Network for Good to support the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which provide educational opportunities for over 1,300 children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

To honor this rite of passage, we created one-minute documentary about loosing your baby teeth in Cambodia and America. will be to sponsor a young woman's college education in Cambodia. Wanna, a Cambodian blogger, contributed to the sound files of the phrase "tooth" in Khmer. I'm nervous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Cambodia brought me my two beautiful children and I felt strongly that we should give back to the country in some way. That's why in 2006 when Leng Sopharath did not have a sponsor for college, I stepped forward. My motivation was a simple act of reciprocity (not what you might read in some of these comments ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. But, also felt sad when thought of the many children in Cambodia who would not have the same opportunities as our children do. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. Sign up here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I learned that he is a reader on my blog, read about the campaign (either on my blog or my blog feed in Facebook), feels strongly about education, and contributed. Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. Have any insights to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In addition, the Sharing Foundation is sponsoring 40 high school students and provides an English program in the Roteang Village School for over 500 kids. And that's not all, the Sharing Foundation provides school uniforms (a requirement to enter school) to street kids in Cambodia so they can attend school. 's Ricardo Carreon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Right before I left for Cambodia, Ranger Rick's profile (the spokesperson for NWF) was deleted from Facebook because it was "fake" and the policy is that only individuals can set up profiles. I'm catching up. Nonprofits can use groups).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 17, 2006

I was looking on their web site for their addresses and was struck that one of the top menu options was, "H&M and UNICEF visit Cambodia." Apparently, H&M and UNICEF signed a three-year deal that includes, "an education project for girls in developing countries and a project to prevent the spread of HIV among young people in Cambodia."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. Annette is involved with a ngo called Half the Sky Foundation that supports orphans in china with educational and development programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. book go directly to SEPTAR, the fledgling Special Education PTA of Redwood City. People can also make a donation to The Emancipation Network, a 501c3 non profit, or sponsor a red light district child for school.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. I rounded up some other resources here and the Shaping Youth Blog did a roundup post with huge pile of green geek, recyclying, and youth education links. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand. Hagar International rescues and rehabilitaties women and children in Cambodia who are victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and sex trafficking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. It helped me write this post - " What Color is the Social Web? ". George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. It got the seeds planted in my head that this is an altruistic community, it's an educated community. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia.

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