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Show Your Mama Some Love (or Facebook Like)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The money you donate to this effort will support Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a changemaker in Tanzania who once sold chickens and used her income to build a primary school that now provides a high-quality education to over 400 children in Tanzania. I love the design.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

In the end, a sustainable and locally based NGO, staffed with volunteers from across the globe, can offer education to students in a small town in Tanzania. That NGO can continue for the foreseeable future, operating chiefly on Western dollars and donations.

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

There are definitely things that will make it more successful, like: Consider a matching gift. If you have a donor willing to match every gift dollar-for-dollar up to $1,000, $5,000, or some other amount, you will get more donations. Your gift will give a child the opportunity to enroll in school for the first time.

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do. Every Thanksgiving since, Stacey has launched a gratitude campaign.

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Solutionary Women: Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

Have Fun - Do Good

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Or there's a big celebration because there's a holiday at this time of year in Uganda, and this is what happened. So it's very personal.

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