Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. Nasscom Foundation is a partner of TechSoup Global and has an impressive technology product donation program called " BIGTech " Here's how they describe their mission and impact. Som Mittal. Soumitra Dasgupta. Sudha Kumar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The frameworks and tips we outlined were field tested in real-time as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation with 60 of their grantees who participated in a peer learning/focuss group and contributed many of the case studies. The book also has a social good purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The first two books, The Network Nonprofit and Measuring Networked Nonprofit provided college scholarships to two young Cambodian women, Savon Keo and Leng Tharath through the Sharing Foundation. I have two adopted children from Cambodia, and both these young women lived in the same orphanage as my daughter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

But there is another very important personal reason to purchase the book on June 21st, I’m donating all of the proceeds from my share of the royalties to the Sharing Foundation , a nonprofit that cares for orphans in Cambodia. And if you are going to buy a copy, please wait until the party and purchase your copy on Amazon.

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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. How can you help?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. There was also awards ceremony co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

All proceeds from the sale after costs (ebay + paypal fees) will be going to charity, split 50/50 between the Sharing Foundation and Beyond Blue. I had the pleasure of meeting Duncan at Gnomedex in August where I presented on Social Media for Social Good , raised some money for the Sharing Foundation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman were in Cambodia and are in Thailand right now. Jay and Ryanne were delivering "video blogging kits" to Sharing Foundation in country staff to begin to capture some video of the work. Click to Play. They are traveling with Christina Arnold from Project Hope to document her project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

I’m fundraising for the Sharing Foundation , that supports children and young people in Cambodia. Because my children were adopted from Cambodia and it is a way to give back. Won’t you consider a holiday donation to the Sharing Foundation to help support Keo Savon and others like her? DONATE HERE !

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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. Children for Children Foundation. Youth Noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The camp was organized by Thai Fund Foundation in partnership with Opendream , , Thai Netizen Network , Frontier Foundation and Tactical Technology Collective. Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

He used social media ( blog , vlog , wiki , flickr , couchsurfing , twitter , myspace , dopplr , and facebook ) to harness the collective knowledge of the globe, and reported weekly on seven topics of freedom. We both ate weird things in Cambodia. (Here's the official press release ). for less that $6.00 USD a week ON FOOD!!!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

Book Party in at the Case Foundation: Who Has Their Hands on the Book. We were in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday for our book tour for The Networked Nonprofit to celebrate with live and virtual events hosted by the Case Foundation and Chronicle of Philanthropy. Tags: Networked Nonprofit case foundation Wendy Harman.

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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). That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. Kami Watson Huyse calls this a shared accomplishment.

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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

JUNE 20, 2013

It will also change the life of one young woman in Cambodia, Keo Savon (above) who lived in the same orphanage as my daughter who was adopted from Cambodia. I’m donating my author royalties to the Sharing Foundation in support of her college education. She is a civil engineering major.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I know this first hand because my family and I have been honored to support the college education of two young Cambodia women through the Sharing Foundation ‘s education program. College tuition in Cambodia compared to the US is not that much, for many young Cambodian women it is beyond their grasp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2007

At the Sharing Foundation, we are always on the lookout for t shirts and other items to bring over, so I asked if I could have them. Jay Dedman sent the box of leftover Vloggercon T-Shirts from 2006 and they were hand carried over the Cambodia and presented to the college students being sponsored by the Sharing Foundation.

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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. Instead, we bring over supplies for the Sharing Foundation , mostly in-kind donations of clothing, medicine, or other items that can't be easily acquired or are cheaper in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2011

Tom Watson has written about a remarkable woman in Cambodia, Mu Sochu. I’d like to introduce you to Keo Savon, an orphan from Cambodia from the same orphanage as our daughter. My family is sponsoring her college education through the work of the Sharing Foundation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

But the idea of doing this through your online social networks has become normalized in the last few years as online social networks have become intertwined with our lives. It has assembled a team of recognized experts and influencers, initially convened by leaders of 92nd Street Y and supported by a core group of founding partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. Do nonprofits and foundations listen to the people they seek to help and act on what they hear? Photo by LIFT. That’s why I’m honored to share this guest post from Melinda T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Since I'm on the board of the Sharing Foundation that works on development projects to support children in Cambodia and is part of the GlobalGiving community, I'm going to plug our education projects. I would so much like it to be the Sharing Foundation. You can read about them here as well as contribute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

to Cambodia ?" " She's asking her network to one or two of the following: Contribute the $10 -- If her school raises the most, the Sharing Foundation will give her $50,000 additional for the school. in rural cambodia with cell phone connection?" In fact, I'm going to ping a few colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2007

She earns a monthly wage working for the Sharing Foundation 's Sewing Project, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or a better paying job in Cambodia???s s garment industry. Call To Action.

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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. And, of course, January 11th is my birthday and I'm doing what I love helping Cambodian youngsters by raising money for the Sharing Foundation.

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JUNE 15, 2010

My pals, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine , have a new book coming out early next month, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change. Allison is donating to the Hope for Henry Foundation , which provides gifts to children in hospitals with chronic diseases. To register, click here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO. I got a chance to meet Stephanie Lai , who works at the Packard Foundation and is a member of the YouTube Symphony. This year my birthday (Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

She earns a monthly wage working for the sewing school and shop, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage. Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia. Chheng Srey Mom, 16, has completed grade 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

Many of you already know about my first personal fundraising campaign to raise money to cover the cost of the college tutition and living expenses for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia. She is one of 18 students being sponsored for college through The Sharing Foundation's program. More background here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with the Sharing Foundation's founder, Dr. Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies to work on a couple of projects and get ready for the final phase of the our America's GIving Challenge campaign. Dr. Hendrie has been working tirelessly on this campaign using her social networks.

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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. My love for my Dad will never die.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Today, in an email, Allison Fine is asking for our reactions to a new report she authored and published by The Overbrook Foundation yesterday called "Web 2.0 Assessment of The Overbrook Foundation's Human Rights Grantees." I discovered this report last night via a google alert, but was too tired to blog it. common struggle???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Roger Carr has said it much better than I can in his post directing his blog readers to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge fundraiser set up by Michele Martin. I'd also like to point over to Bob Uva's blog post about the supporting the Sharing Foundation. Thank you Michele and Roger! I met Bob through Facebook.

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