Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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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. Tuan , project manager, for the Fund for Shared Insight. Fund for Shared Insight is trying to change that. Melinda Tuan is the project manager at the Fund for Shared Insight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

chartiy: water is also excellent at using data to enhance narratives, which they do beautifully on the landing page for their current holiday campaign to bring water to families in Cambodia (hint: roll over each tile for a fun animation). Cambodia Networked Nonprofit' How can your organization apply this? Learn more here.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

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. In her birthday wish post , Beth announces that she’s trying to send 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530.

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AUGUST 31, 2008

Fund Raising at the Speed of Twitter - Philanthropy.com: "Fund Raising at the Speed of TwitterTwitter — mini-blogs updated via text message — can raise money fast from the technologically savvy.Beth Kanter and 250 bloggers, podcasters, and other technology enthusiasts at a Seattle conference raised $2,657 to pay for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia, (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children.

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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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JUNE 11, 2008

The Seva Challenge asks participants to raise $20,000 (or more) by December 31, 2008 for the Cambodian Children’s Fund , and to take a trip with OTM in February 2009 to Cambodia to help CCF with their work. Neil of Neil's Cambodia Challenge is taking the Challenge to fulfill one of his Five Wishes. yoga activism Cambodia

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

She is conducting an evaluation of a reproductive health voucher program in Uganda and Cambodia as part of her dissertation, and she co-instructs the International Maternal and Child Health Seminar, and the Maternal and Child Health Core course at UC Berkeley. Carinne Brody is a doctoral candidate in public health at UC Berkeley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I just got an email from Dr. Hendrie who is in Cambodia right now. We have an opportunity to receive a couple of OLPCs for our literacy program at our farming project (we school the kids of farmers who we train to farm the land, sell vegetables, proceeds go into micro loan fund.). Okay, that's not a huge amount, but I'm the donor!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

Or how about asking your family to purchase gift wrap as a way to raise funds around the holidays? With peer-to-peer fundraising, you don't have one fundraising page — you potentially have hundreds, with all the personal fundraising pages raising funds on your behalf. Do you need to raise a lot of funds in a short period?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I have many examples from my own children and those of Sharing Foundation stakeholders - many who are adoptive parents and have encouraged their children to give back to Cambodia. I'm working on what has become my annual holiday post at BlogHer on the topic: Helping kids understand why it is better to give than to receive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. Then I noticed that Andrew Parker had just tweeted it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Here's the post he wrote: My name is Nhuong Son and I am doing an online fund raiser through the America Giving Challenge. Since I was born and bred in Cambodia I understand how difficult it is to obtain an education when you have no money and more importantly when food and clothing are scarce in itself. Just think about that???that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. When history dictates that the vast majority of all East African orphanages are Christian founded and funded, the (obvious) result is Christian children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

How do we support and empower these younger fund raisers? Only us Khmer can bring forth the change needed in Cambodia. how much of that 40 dollars acc[t]ually goes to cambodia? how much of that 40 dollars acc[t]ually goes to cambodia?" We hire local people in Cambodia to run the programs. And that's okay.

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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've seen several terms, like "crowd funding" etc.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations. The foundation's mission is to help bring about shared prosperity and a sustainable future to all ASEAN countries, which comprise Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. CompuMentor has created a Technology Innovation Fund to provide direct cash support to projects selected by the NetSquared Community. The complete list of projects can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Non profit groups struggle with funding and public support issues on a daily basis. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The first photo of hers from Cambodia was this one of the four monks crossing the street titled Abbey Road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

It's sort of cool - you create a page with your "dream" and then let your friends and family know - and they can help fund your dream. The package also came with $20 voucher where I could fund my own dream or support someone else's. Some dreams include gifts to charities, others are don't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

Today, when I couldn't get online, I was cleaning up and organizing my paper work and I found an old fashion, snail mail annual fund request. Of course, I also have photos of other kids and bloggers in Cambodia wearing them - as well as friends. Photo from CC site - It didn't have a CC license, but I am assuming I can use it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Here's how and why from Justin: When Michael Bailey decided to try a group donation experiment.

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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. Sophie created a flier to sell Cambodian/American flag pins and raised $350 for Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Two years ago, with funds from the Long Island chapter of the American Association of University Women, we were able to replace their highly arsenic contaminated well with a huge rainwater collection tank and delivery system to supply safe drinking water. I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far.

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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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JANUARY 17, 2006

The winner will receive a $5,000 donation to the cause of their choice in their name, and a matching grant of $5,000 to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund in their name. 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." This fall, St.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Today, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease." Phymean Noun "Growing up in Cambodia, Phymean Noun struggled to complete high school. Maria Da Silva "Has lost 14 family members to AIDS. Bernard Parish, a community just outside New Orleans.

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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. Everyday Giving Blog. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. The children sat at their desks, quietly writing the khmer letters on their little chalk boards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Blandford Nature Center : Maria is raising funds for the organization in a very innovate (and tough) way. Transitions Cambodia : Helps many girls being trafficked throughout the southeast Asia area. Not For Sale works to educate about, expose and eradicate modern day slavery, because no one should be for sale. suggested by Dave Web 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Make sure to read through the FAQ and look at last year's winners to get a sense of what they are willing to fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. " Here's one very insightful answer: 1) I noticed your tweet and that it was a young woman from Cambodia. The fund raising is an impressive story, really just floors me!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

The Sharing Foundation sends a personalized, made in Cambodia, thank you card designed by one of the talented orphans we're supporting for high school and art lessons no less ! The website helps networks of small-scale philanthropists develop and fund solutions to pressing social problems."

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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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