Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

When I was in the third grade, I volunteered to bake cupcakes to help fundraise for Lucy the Elephant (who thankfully survived super storm Sandy ). Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. Document the learnings from this personal fundraising campaign. Blog about this campaign and repost the fundraising badge on your blog. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I am donating my royalties to support the Sharing Foundation ‘s college education program for young people in Cambodia. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon , who we met this summer in Cambodia. The book also has a social good purpose.

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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. Education is the path out of poverty in Cambodia. To sponsor a college student through the Sharing Foundation is $1,000.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2007

but wanted to share a few learnings re: personal fundraising. Twitter as a fundraising tool?!? My friends responding with public questions about what else was needed or suggesting fundraising strategies. I noticed a Twitter sticker on the wall and was wondering whether there any Twitter t-shirts that could go to Cambodia.

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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. Dr. Hendrie, hand delivers the letters to each student when she goes over to Cambodia to oversee the programs every quarter.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

All artists work in a free and fair work environment in Cambodia where they are paid above average wages and receive benefits such as health insurance and stipends for their children’s education. For every bracelet purchased, one pound of trash is removed from the ocean and coastlines. 2) Brave Collection :: thebravecollection.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. As each fundraiser shares their campaign with their personal network via word of mouth and online, the number of people who know about charity: water quickly multiplies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

I'm doing a workshop in Cambodia called " Five Steps to Khmer 2.0 to Change The World I also created another version for University Extension professionals and one that focused on fundraising/marketing. What advice would you offer to Cambodian bloggers? Let me know in the comments below. " for the Bloggers Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So, while I am delighted with the response to book , I’m even more pleased that the book is able to help young people in Cambodia. It’s made think about how far social fundraising has come in the last four years. Sharing knowledge, social media, and supporting young people in Cambodia.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

This form of fundraising is called peer-to-peer fundraising , and it's not just for kids. With crowdfunding sites taking the business, art, and nonprofit world by storm with exponential growth since 2009, it's easy to overlook peer-to-peer fundraising. Is peer-to-peer fundraising the right strategy for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2007

Fundraising Success.??? He is the author of 30 Days to Successful Fundraising. For his weekly fundraising column on his blog. I was honored to be interviewed on the August 14th edition of the Fundraising Success Podcast about personal fundraising. Goldstein is the host and producer of ???Fundraising s Corner???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! I am also thinking about the report that Katya Andresen and colleagues at Network for Good published several months ago called " The Wired Fundraiser " providing some research and insights on these very questions. Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Based on my experience with the Sharing Foundation in Cambodia, I know how important it is for children in developing countries to have books to read in their own language. If you want to get a bottle of our limited Pinot Noir or Chardonnay, visit the Fledgling Initiative and contribute. Good wine has never been better!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. But there was something else at play for me this year, my fourth, celebrating my birthday with social media and a networked fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I'm thinking about the use of video or vlog posts coupled with fundraising widgets as well as some other possible ways (ad revenue from web videos?) to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. But every little bit helps and even pennies go far in Cambodia. I did a campaign video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

In both my campaigns, I let the fundraising widget/badge remain on my sidebar even after the campaign was over and we had made our goal. Her biggest concern about doing online fundraising is that we would loose our personal connection to donors if sent out "form" emails. More out of laziness versus strategy. See above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

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. re seeing less resistance as nonprofits witness the effectiveness of wired fundraisers. Year round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

Twitter isn't half bad as a fundraising tool. Celeste Wroblewski. Alan Levine Gr??goire goire Japiot Shirley Williams Ruby Sinreich Sean Stannard-Stockton Laura Chambers Allison Hewlitt Thomas Taylor. more about that later. And, a special thanks again to Liz Sanger and this time with link love. I've never met Liz in person.

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Amy Sample Ward

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. Tags: community fundraising beth kanter beth53 campaign children sharing foundation. How does it work? And happy birthday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

They've just launched their online fundraising campaign to keep the world talking. I was thrilled to discover it because I had just started my " Cambodia For Kids " blog and thought it might help me connect with bloggers from Cambodia. I'm a donor and let me tell you why. at Harvard University. at Harvard University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia. Opened in 2000, it provides a new standard of compassionate care for children in Cambodia. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

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. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. This is my story in why I hold this cause so dear to my heart. And of course.

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APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Well-informed, constantly connected, and more tech-confident than your aunt Jan, they’re taking on the world’s problems, one online fundraiser at a time. Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons. Small Givers, Big Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

I will be taking a short break from blogging except for reminders about the virtual paddle out and fundraiser. At some point, I will share with you some lessons learned about online fundraising, hope you will help me celebrate my father’s memory. … Read More Fundraising' Tribute to My Dad.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Meet A Cambodian Wired Fundraiser: Nhung Son. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation Eugene Chan's New Year's Resolution. Harry's Fundraising Video. Social Fundraising. Flow of Donations from Networked Fundraising. Social Fundraising Is International and Needs Paypal. Happy Birthday Amy Jussel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. 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. Click to see the larger image. I'm going to call it AMORE. It replicable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources. Photo by MeanLux. May Mean Lux will drop a comment in english?

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JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Anol Bhattacharya, repeat donor to the other socially networked campaigns I've run for Cambodia, not only donated, but made two blog posts ( Soul Soup and here )and posted it to the Internet Times Ning Network created by Jay Cross. Yep, it's working! Thanks Julia. Thank you everyone!

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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. While things have changed here in the US, in Cambodia, women and girls face tremendous odds trying to get an education.

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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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