NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Plus, learn how to fundraise year-round with holidays, and the NTEN Voices section: community tweets, examples of good donor stewardship, and we ask Food & Water Watch: How do you practice what you preach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

Can cities and sharing companies strike pro-active data sharing deals that protect users privacy, inform public policy, and benefit communities – without going to court? Alternative Currency Donations. Here’s one small example. and expected to be rolled out to cities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Workplaces are tapping into the power of ritual to create a sense of community, build relationships in the workplace and reduce stress. Of course, a raise or bonus is nice, but it is the public acknowledge that helps builds community. And if that wasn’t enough, rituals can also encourage innovation by reducing the fear of failure.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

There was a desire to get a presence established on Facebook in order to connect with our communities in new ways and do it quickly! There are so many examples of the increased "speed" the internet is able to provide; but I'm curious what people think about the internet's influence on scale, competition, and community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And Kiva ([link] builds on already existing networks (including that network of networks we call the Internet) to give people the opportunity to loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. They give community members a very concrete piece of information to take advantage of. The Value of Specificity.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started. Find me on Delicious for more! Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : The Profit in Nonprofit … - Here is a great (long!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Kiva :: Download. MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national, nonprofit organization that has been allocating donations from the Jewish community to prevent and alleviate hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds since 1985. App Name: KivaAlerts. Updated: May 6, 2009.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Guy takes celebrities around the world to connect with young leaders who are creating change in their communities. Here are 4 things you can do to alleviate poverty in your community: Volunteer year round. My new favorite TV show (in addition to The Mentalist ) is 4REAL hosted by Sol Guy. It's just really hard.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world. Kiva is a classic nonprofit social enterprise that relies mainly on earned revenues rather than grants or donations. I chatted with my old friend, Bennett Grassano.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 25, 2009

As far as I know, nothing like it exists, although it could, now that Kiva has opened its API so that developers can build their own tools to fund entrepreneurs. Kiva is going to be experimenting with loans to entrepreneurs living in the United States. Plus, according to a March 23rd article on CNNMoney.com, Micro-loans for Americans?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Maybe one is that Giving Tuesday becomes an official national holiday or becomes an annual event like Cyber Monday.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Congratulations to The Extrordinaries , Kiva , and Inveneo for bringing the good with the socmed! Tags: community buzz nten members. ReadWriteWeb wants to point out the "social media for good" organizations that deliver on the "good" part, not just the social media.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Congratulations to The Extrordinaries , Kiva , and Inveneo for bringing the good with the socmed! Tags: community buzz nten members. ReadWriteWeb wants to point out the "social media for good" organizations that deliver on the "good" part, not just the social media.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2009

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. What inspired the Twitter love?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Chelsea Bocci of Kiva.org also hit on this theme as she discussed several social media engagement campaigns Kiva has done in recent years, and how with each campaign they learn from their mistakes and adjust their strategy to better engage their community. Which tools are you using and why? Let us know in the comments.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest mobile fundraising apps. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

Focus on quality content and community, not on the technology. Bay Area The Hub social innovation web activism Kiva Change.org Virgance Be passionate. Be transparent. Provide opportunities that create measurable change. Involve a lot of people. Use the carrot. Use the stick. Facilitate peer-to-peer referrals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Carie Lewis.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines. Schlemminger, a strategic marketing communications professional who integrates best practices in branding, PR and social media. Sloane Berrent, a cause-based marketing consultant who works with nonprofits and social cause organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

Nonprofit organizations will be able to use LinkedIn as a platform for involving the LinkedIn community with their causes, leveraging the 11 million users that are present within the online community. British rockstar James Blunt is already using LinkedIn to raise over $23,000 for Doctors Without Borders. hat tip, Dave B.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Empower an Entrepreneur with a Kiva Loan. You can give a Kiva gift certificate for as little as $25. Check out what he had to say about Kiva on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. There we delivered much needed school supplies to several communities along the river." Go to localharvest.org to find a CSA near you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. I loved what he said about Premal Shah - that he wanted to apply for a job at Kiva after hearing him speak. is about one-way communication, and web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Carie Lewis.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Set targets and help to accelerate project development and build community. What can we do with groups like Kiva? Organizations that are trying to support people to do new things know this. At the end of the 3 months we have a demo day with possible funders and we we take a finders fee and also pay-back for the 15,000 starter grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

I "met" Mark Grimes ( Ned.com ) virtually on Omidyar Network and he was part of a group that proposed community support for the Sharing Foundation. Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

leave a comment and come to SXSW in March to join the debate with Jacob Colker (Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries ), Premal Shah (President of Kiva ) and Jason Cooper (Online Coordinator at Kaboom.org ). Was this ad-hoc Twitter community a political movement? Slacktivism 101?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Sloane Berrent, a Kiva fellow, social philanthropy activist and a former executive at Causecast who’s currently serving a three-month tour in the Philippines. Carla Schlemminger, who has more than 17 years experience in marketing communications, branding and strategic public relations. .

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JUNE 22, 2009

Social Actions’ actions come from Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch and others. And another fun video to recruit video-makers from the YouTube community: Tags: Video youtube.

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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. . There’s a lot of doom and gloom around at the moment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

VEF also offers $300 follow-up grants to recipients of start-up grants to help them grow and expand their businesses, and loans of $5,000-$20,000 for community-based businesses such as a truck for famers to be able to drive to key markets, or a bakery at a secondary school. 75% of VEF's businesses last 4 years or longer.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization. ” He started off with a great story about what a tribe in South Africa does when someone in their community does something bad. Most importantly, wisdom brings trust, community, stewardship, and creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. It is a way for people to invest in each other and help foster economic independence around the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Laura Whitehead is the session designer for a workshop on Social Media and Nonprofits and she's asking for input from the NpTech community on the session. Looks like the NpTech community in Portland, Oregon is thriving. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

They used to be bundled together, in the form of foundation staff, personal advisors, or community foundation program officers. And it might be inciting new forms from familiar ones—new roles for community foundations or new services from donor advised fund vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

Allison mentions a few more like mico-finance like Kiva's small loans to entrepreneurs here and abroad. . We are trying to illustrate a real-time, lighter assessment process that activists can use to engage their community and make real-time improvements and adjustments. In a session at the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Observe is his photos in flickr , read his blog , follow him on Twitter , join his Ning community , and learn why you should care about poverty.    Check out what  the Austin area social media activists are doing to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in their local community.  Not sure? .  

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