AFP Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Press Release Austin Nonprofit Bridges Digital and Education Divide in Cambodia - PR.com : That’s something that Austin’s Windows of Wonder Institute, or WOWi, wants to end. The Tchey school has a new computer lab and students eager to learn. The team will take along equipment, much of which will remain behind with the students.

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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. Parenting Tips To Encourage Your Child’s Philanthropy.

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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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JUNE 14, 2011

Susan Gordon, Director of Nonprofit Services, Causes. Even if the mission of your nonprofit doesn't have anything to do with adorable cats or precious babies, you can still raise money using social media. Social media is leveling the playing field in the nonprofit sector. Small Nonprofit Using Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

We need more better policies to address gender parity and more programs that build the capacity of nonprofits and the tech skills of women and girls in the development world. Noel is has a crowd funding campaign to help raise money to rebuild after the devastating fire. Tech2Empower: Helping Women in Cambodia.

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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. I've been given an opportunity to help by leading a training and sharing my experience with nonprofits and social media. I'm raising $4,000 and the amazing folks at ChipIn. Keynote welcome.

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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

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

AUGUST 1, 2012

Find out how one successful nonprofit leader does it. Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors. His first Facebook campaign raised $250,000 in 2005 for Genocide Intervention Network, now known as [link]. It’s easy to find nonprofit 990s at GuideStar.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2009

(If you want to know more about why my family and I care about the children of Cambodia and this charity, take a minute to watch this video my son, Harry made.) We raised $6,158 from 157 donors! 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

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. I asked folks to raise their hands if they had a smart phone, most did. I asked folks if they were on Twitter or Facebook, most people raised their hands. As always, lots of fun to actually see my co-author, Allison Fine , in person. I’m now an advisor ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

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. I also like the "good job" praise I got for raising the money. Notes about application. Click to see larger image.

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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 3, 2009

This nonprofit helps to care for children in Cambodia. If you want to know more about why my family and I care about the children of Cambodia and this charity, take a minute to watch this video my son, Harry, made last year.). I've already raised enough through my Facebook Birthday Cause to send 100 kids to school this year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

I’ll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. 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

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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. And as Facebook continues to evolve, nonprofits should seek ways to become less dependent on their algorithm. I’m not saying that your nonprofit should ditch your organic social strategy. But no algorithm is perfect.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

Do you remember selling chocolate to raise money for your class field trip back in elementary school? Or how about asking your family to purchase gift wrap as a way to raise funds around the holidays? Do you need to raise a lot of funds in a short period? It can be a greater fundraising strategy than just creating a campaign.

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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

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. One of my most memorable Skype calls was when I had forgot to turn switch off SKYPE during a presentation to health care nonprofits about social media in 2007.

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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

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. This year we could more than double the number of uniforms we provide to children in Cambodia, including some for HIV children's group homes. Here's how it works: Yahoo!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2008

and nonprofit workshops in different places. Today, I learned that QIK will be celebrating their one-year anniversary with a party and charity drive. They have identified the Sharing Foundation that helps children in Cambodia as the recipient. (If Earlier this year, I got an N95 smartphone to stream videos while I doing web 2.0

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See3

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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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

Now, as some reader may know, I've been actively exlporing games and nonprofits and the educational side of games. So, this raises a question - what if a nonprofit uses this service and the ad that is placed on their video does not necessarily reinforce the message of their cause or even worse is in direct opposition?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

and nonprofit adoption. My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 Nonprofits are still struggling to answer to the "What it is and why it matters" questions.

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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. We had to replace one of the speakers and I recommended Michaela.

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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 don't know what I mean yet.

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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

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

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! We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2008

If you don't have a camera or if you're not comfortable creating video content, there are other ways to raise awareness about this important issue. Get all of your staff involved: In the early stages, it's important to get started with a strong community, so encourage interaction by asking nonprofit staff to participate in creating content.

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