Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about solely about making a lot of money, but also giving it to charity as Ariana Huffington points out in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity. Look out world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. Or donating to a cause during a presentation or speech that motivated the giver? I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ? What do you think?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The app is currently being used in Tanzania, but the developers are hoping to deploy it in other countries as well. They can set goals for building credit and saving money, hence the name. This app does a tremendously important service because it speeds up the time in which broken pumps get fixed. Supporting Youth. Youth ALIVE!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

” Mpesa works on really basic phones and allows users to deposit money, and most importantly to transfer money using SMS (texting) to other users. The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. If they don't have a way to make money, they can't access those things.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Overstated claims hurt the cause of the human rights movement over the long term. We need innovation money that represents probably less than 5% of our budget, but is essential to our future. Human Rights Program – Changing the Field of Human Rights Making the truth matter is the core theme of our human rights work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. The March of Dimes community rallied to raise money in Maddie's memory, unleashing a groundswell of support and sympathy expressions. . What is important to take into 2010?

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