AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Kiva, Livestrong, Oxfam America, RAINN, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, and Water.org. The test feature is launching with about a dozen partners, including the American Red Cross, Blue Star Families, Boys & Girls Club of America, DonorsChoose.org, Girls Inc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. The Extraordinaries has also been doing a good job of tracking nonprofit iPhone apps over at their blog. That is, versions of their Web site content on a iPhone. American Cancer Society More Birthdays App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

Other featured LinkedIn for Good organizations include American Red Cross, the World Wildlife Fund and Unitis and Kiva, microfiance organizations. I much rather see organizations that provided essential cosmetic surgery to children in the developing receive this type of media attention. hat tip, Dave B. at Journal Marketing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2007

Not only will they be showing the films, but they will have also have panels with some of the shows' reporters and social entrepreneurs like Trevor Field, co-founder of PlayPumps International (water pumps powered by children's play), Luis Szaran, founder of Sonidos de la Tierra (they use music in their work with impoverished children), Matt Flannery, (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! With $10 and 10 minutes of your time you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries. I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status. That's Adam Nicholson.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Where are the stories of the courageous people who through their own efforts, or with a little leg up such as a Kiva loan, overcome their material poverty to create a brighter tomorrow for themselves and their communities, one person at a time. . I was going to write about Save the Children’s Kroo Bay and DfID’s bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs. Kiva connects individuals with unique small businesses in the developing world, and helps to orchestrate a one-on-one micro-loan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Support Children. Shaping Youth recommends supporting Age of Conversation to Benefit Variety, The Children's Charity. Can I Sit With You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

Invisible Children (Shot from 26th to 1st in under 2 weeks after release of the Kony 2012 video). Invisible Children. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Here is a taste of five different lists I have built over the past few months. For a legend explaining how the rankings are computed, scroll down past the lists. Livestrong.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Kiva's a great example. Well, I have two small children; two and five months. I read children's books a lot. Motherhood is one of the biggest life cycle changes that we go through, if we decide to have children. You can see your impact with your donation, and your engagement right away. Eighty percent of women do.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

Prevent children from dying from lack of access to clean water or medical care: @ Water , @ AlexsLemonade. Empower entrepreneurs at the grassroots to start micro-enterprises: @ Kiva , @ DarfurStoves. Hold corporate-owned media accountable to its democratic purpose to educate (not manipulate) the masses: @ AccuracyInMedia , @ NPR.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

I also think there are a lot of lessons to be learned from sites like Kiva, where the concept of micro-designation really resonate with donors and could only easily be achieved online. Our children likewise will have a story to tell their grandchildren.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

AMEX gave away $2.5m Some of what I found interesting about the project: -They designed and have run it as a collaborative *online* effort with their cardholder members.

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