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One-on-One with Elana Frank: Founding and Scaling a Nonprofit

Allegiance Group

The first two were born via in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Israel, where she and her husband lived at the time. The process was free through Israel’s socialized medicine program, although it was a lonely and isolating time for Frank. She knew how to unite people around a specific cause, thanks to her nonprofit background.

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Wiser Giving: What’s Your Giving Style?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shel Israel describes social or goodwill fundraising (individual raising money and giving to causes) as the “ cult of generosity ” – I would like to call “ Individual Social Responsibility ” – like there is “Corporate Social Responsibility,” it is also important for individuals to be generous. Flickr Photo by Time Anchor.

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Nonprofits and Pinterest: Nonprofit Blog Carnival Round-up

Have Fun - Do Good

. ~ Pinterest: One Nonprofit's Story , Susan's Site • Marc van Gurp highlighted the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Israel's "Pinsulin" campaign. Using Pinterest to Raise Money: One Charity's Experiment , The Chronicle of Philanthropy More examples, info, and inspiration 9 Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits , Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. Skeptics in the audience tweeted about the limitations of tool-centric campaigns or wondered if, at the end of day, there was any on the ground social change.

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? I interviewed some digital natives last week about their use of causes and one thing they mentioned as application fatigue -- don't respond to every request to join a cause and delete them.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If anything, having social media as part of your trainer's tool box makes this an easy task. The big difference in India - is that CSR is not cause-marketing or geared towards sales. He points that in America, "Ninety percent of companies cannot discern the difference between cause marketing and corporate social responsibility.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.