Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This usually leads to discussions of “scope creep” and “change orders” as well as feeling pressure from funders to meet targets and goals originally outlined that may no longer fit with the project’s direction. One example Christie gave was describing the origins of Louder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

After I attended Catalyzing the Sharing Economy conference (the sharing economy is defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services), I shared a post with some notes and ideas about why I think it is the next generation of networked social change.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

“If we as activists can’t get the Internet to speed up social change, then we’re not doing our jobs.&# " Tags: roundup book bookmarks capacitybuilding casestudies change community engagement facebook fundraising ict4d list mobile nptech postalicious resources software women.

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APRIL 6, 2010

With AiCandle App supporters can light the iCandle and be a human rights activist by taking part in international campaigns and petitions to ensure that more prisoners of conscience are released, death sentences are commuted, torturers are brought to justice and governments are persuaded to change their laws and practices. Kiva :: Download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What is the change that will result? This is when I first observed the rise of “ Free Agents ,” highly connected individuals who could launch social movements in the palms of their hands by mixing their skills with online networking and their passion for social change. What is the definition of success?

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

But things changed for the nonprofit world on Friday. Check out some of the nonprofits that are currently on Twitter’s Suggested User List: @Kiva @CharityWater @SkollFoundation @Refugees - UN Refugee Agency @Ashoka @Water - Water.org @GatesFoundation @AcumenFund @DoSomething @PeaceCorps @OneCampaign @Care - CareUSA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Socap 09 Conference brings together a mix of the world's top social innovators, investors, donors, entrepreneurs, and thought-leaders, today's leading catalysts of change from across the globe. I loved what he said about Premal Shah - that he wanted to apply for a job at Kiva after hearing him speak. It is the trash from the buildings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world.

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JULY 29, 2009

On Monday night I went to a great event, Money, Mobs, and Media: Mobilizing Action for Change , presented by The Hub Bay Area. Below are some of the tips the panelists shared for how to get folks engaged for change online: Give instant, bite-sized feedback. Provide opportunities that create measurable change. Be passionate.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world. They collect ways for you to get involved in the causes you care about from 30+ action sources like Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). Help us out and vote for our panel “Can Double-Clicking Change The World? We want to get the best and brightest in a room at SXSW and go at it.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. Check out how other organizations are using Box to create positive change by reading success stories on the Box.org website. Learn more about their stories and watch a video detailing their work on the Box website.??.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Submitted by Michael Silberman. What is it?

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MAY 23, 2008

(Originally appeared on Connections ) Each day the certainty of the changing tides is the one constant. And just like the tides, change in our lives is never instantaneous. Although the rate of change may vary, just like tidal ranges and patterns differ depending on your location, the basic concept remains the same.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

These changes will have to happen in order for these projects to work. How do we change the different ways we distribute money? What can we do with groups like Kiva? Rather than having standard business advice but a place where they can experiment. Building an audience around the 6 ideas for the weekend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Godin used (as Tom Watson said it), " the Ashton Kutcher Metric of Social Change - not yet proven, only a theory!" I am assuming Tom was talking about the number of followers on Twitter as a measure of impact. Sean listed the new users: The new “suggested users” are: Social Edge. Skoll Foundation. Matt Flannery. Acumen Fund. Room to Read.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Organizations like Kiva and Dining for Women demonstrate these principles well. It is relatively simple to make a donation using Kiva. If you scroll to the bottom of this page on Kiva , you will see the nine people (including me) who made a loan to Beatrices Amoka. Darfur activism philanthropy advocacy social change

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

Last week, Allison had a chance to test some of our thinking at the Games for Change conference. . We adapted it for social change. Online Social networks generate social capital (relationships - reciprocity and trust) which lead to on the ground change. . In a session at the Web 2.0

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Oh, and please do give a thumbs up to the panel Beth and I cooked up: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change ]. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. What is it?

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JUNE 22, 2009

He would aggregate individual nonprofit actions and opportunities for change from many sources. Social Actions’ actions come from Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch and others. A guy named Peter Deitz had an amazing idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Cross posted from SSIR ] "Green Shoots" for New Philanthropic Forms I’ve been writing about information as the currency of change for a long time. The data are the currency of change. We should also plan on this changing landscape of information being full of the seeds of new forms.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ rootwork : @annanten To me the goal should be change, not growing one’s base. do they in themselves create behavioral change too. realize_ink : Q1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Allan Benamer, of the nonprofittechblog , gives us an answer: The three biggest success stories so far are modestneeds.org, globalgiving.com and Kiva. She notes, "It is a stellar example of how to tell a story for effective social marketing and change." None of those three are social networking properties.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In a major study of more than 800 Canadian donors that we at hjc recently completed with Blackbaud , Edge Research , and Sea Change Strategies , two big trends stood out: mobile fundraising and crowdfunding. He has helped raise over a billion dollars for his clients. Indiegogo was a close second receiving gifts from 25% of Canadian Boomers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." It develops and supports the profession of social entrepreneurship by acting as a venture capital firm for visionary change-makers around the world. Here's how it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We Shawn's goal was to change the conversation about ending poverty. This is just one person's small effort to use the social web to change the world !  Sachs, we can end poverty within our lifetime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

When I shared the photo with my network, I received comments from people who had supported my fundraisers over the years — comments that made me think that everyone felt good about being able to make a small donation and really change someone’s life. Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. There is a category for Changing the World. The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Go vote here.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Guy takes celebrities around the world to connect with young leaders who are creating change in their communities. My new favorite TV show (in addition to The Mentalist ) is 4REAL hosted by Sol Guy. The most recent episode featured Eva Mendes, and Liz Evans, the Executive Director and Founder of the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. It enables people to give to people in need anonymously. Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! You can set up a fundraiser, issue a challenge, or social contract.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

I had a conversation today with a major Jewish Federation about technology change. They are thinking about the future and wanted to look seriously into how changes in technology will impact their activities in the future. The change taking place with technology isn’t simply about operational efficiencies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. ammado connects nonprofits, socially responsible corporates and engaged individuals who want to change the world. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica Jackley Flannery is the kind of person who makes you feel at home right away, like she is truly happy to meet you, which is why I wasn't surprised when she said, "Kiva started out of relationships and love, ideally I would love for that to be present in every single transaction that happens. What is Kiva? How did Kiva start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

The Technovist raises some questions about why the fear of change holds back adoption and suggests that the resistance isn't necessarily tied to specific tools, but more about giving control of direction setting and activities to individual constituents. David Geilhufe says productize !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

And so, for a traditional institution, this is really a moment where, if the organizational structure doesn't change, then the institution is essentially going to find itself working at cross-purposes with many of its members. Kiva , charity:water and a few others were mentioned. freeagent twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Think of how much change could be created if instead of a new sweater or CD we all were able to give a Holiday gift that meant survival for a starving family, or an education for an orphaned student. This began to change with the establishment in 2002 of the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation (SPF) whose all-volunteer effort raised over $1.5

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