Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Now a parent with my own children, I involved my kids when they younger when I was fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Cambodian youngster in the Sharing Foundation 's Education program practices her alphabet. In Roteang Village, where the Sharing Foundation has programs that help over 1,500 children each and every day, there was a birthday bash at the orphanage for the 70 plus children. We raised $6,158 from 157 donors!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2011

It’s been almost five years since my first foray into social fundraising to raise money from my friends and followers to send a young woman, Leng Sopharath to college. Ever since, I’ve continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

In her birthday wish post , Beth announces that she’s trying to send 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530. Last week, Stacy Monk and I were chatting and thought that our community could help smash that goal by raising much more funds as well as awareness for the work the Sharing Foundation does in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. What are the transaction and transformation metrics? The first is easy – dollars raised, # of volunteers, etc. Their approach empowers everyday individuals to use their creativity to raise money from their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. I asked folks to raise their hands if they had a smart phone, most did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

My 53rd birthday wish was to raise money for the Sharing Foundation to send 53 Cambodian Youngsters to school by covering the cost of their uniforms ($10 per child). We crushed that goal and raised $4,540 because of your generosity in donating and calling attention to the birthday wish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I want to thank the other 31 Facebook friends for their donations to the Sharing Foundation in honor of my Birthday Cause. We've raised $1, 206 to help children in Cambodia. Even though I'm not raising huge dollar amounts, what makes feel great is that small donations go a long way in Cambodia. Let me explain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

As I do every year for my birthday, I ask for donations to the Sharing Foundation in lieu of gifts or cards. This nonprofit helps to care for children in Cambodia. Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

To honor my Dad’s memory and his love of the ocean, I am raising money for Surfrider Foundation in his memory to support their ocean conservation efforts. And his love for ocean will live on through the work of Surfrider Foundation. Please donate to SurfRider Foundation in his memory. Tribute to My Dad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. I reached out to my readers for suggestions about how to raise more charitable and socially aware children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Note from Beth: Next week, I’ll be keynoting the “ Future of Social Media Conference ” in London hosted by Social Misfits in partnership with Facebook, JustGiving, the Hospital Club Foundation, and the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. Having met his goal, he’s doing it again for his twelfth birthday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2008

and nonprofit workshops in different places. They have identified the Sharing Foundation that helps children in Cambodia as the recipient. They have identified the Sharing Foundation that helps children in Cambodia as the recipient. (If If you read this blog and are going to the QIK party, buy lots of schwag!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

She earns a monthly wage working for a sewing school and shop, a vocational program run by the Sharing Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or get a better paying job in Cambodia???s This could make a big difference for thousands of children in Cambodia.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. The sewing girls, who are employed by the Sharing Foundation's vocational training program, earn from the first day of their training, so this is a win-win situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

It's hard times and many nonprofits are and will experience the pain of tightening budgets and perhaps worse. Nonprofits are eligible to apply for the shoes to distribute to clients. So, we can sit around and whine about the economy or inspire people to take action for our causes or do something for a nonprofit or cause.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

First, I want to say thank you Caroline Meeks from Solution Grove and fellow Boston TechnoBabe for her donation to the Sharing Foundation to support Leng Sopharath's education. Now, as some reader may know, I've been actively exlporing games and nonprofits and the educational side of games. for the Sharing Foundation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Earlier this week, the Overbrook Foundation released a report on Web 2.0 and nonprofit adoption. Assessment of The Overbrook Foundation's Human Rights Grantees," is asking for reactions. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 Allison Fine, author of the report titled, "Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

This year is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day , which takes place every year on December 1 to raise awareness about AIDS pandemic. The impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of people globally every day, particularly in countries like Cambodia. Over the years, web awareness raising campaign have gotten more sophisticated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I am just back from Legal Services Corporation and a keynote on ROI and Nonprofits. I tried to make the point by raising the question, " Can you quantify the intangible ?" I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. I did a campaign video. I contributed.

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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. " Be A Role Model of Generosity. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2007

The contest is about telling a story about someone's good deed on behalf of an nonprofit organizations. So now, if you can vote for the story and we win, we get a crack at raising some more money for the Sharing Foundation. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. And thank you. And Leng Sopharath says thank you too! Here's how to vote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Pimp My Nonprofit Panel at SXSW. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Did you know that according to the 2005 Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report : "On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online." As of this writing, 3 PM on November 16th PST, she has raised 44% of her goal, and she started the campaign ten days ago!

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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! I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. For those of you who are new, let me share why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. to support the Sharing Foundation. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the second of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

When people ask about holiday gifts - we direct them to the Sharing Foundation , When give gifts, we give to the Sharing Foundation (and a few other causes), and make "in honor of" gifts. They are still building out the content on the site and there is a growing list of nonprofit recipients. His campaign video is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. There are 15 projects in the competition, all with a mission of ending traffiking and slavery, including an entrant from Cambodia. Hurry voting ends August 5th.

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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

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. Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000.

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