Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

When staff at SOS Children’s Villages International , which cares for children impacted by the Syrian refugee crisis, learned a five-year-old in Syria needed critical heart surgery, they used the cloud storage service OneDrive to quickly assemble photo and video assets into a pitch to international donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2015

A community of people beyond the activist’s network have jumped in to spread the word and donate. We have a slow news period – and a downer news cycle ( Refugee crisis in Syria ). But Simonarson did not know who the man was or who took the photograph. And it has been picked up by mainstream media around the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Photo and Caption via Mercy Corps : Mohammed and Amna Lelayesh fled their home in Syria with their four children over a year ago. This will significantly increase traffic to your website, help build your e-newsletter list and social network communities, and thus increase your online fundraising success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Remarks Here are my remarks to the Leadership Conference on receiving the Migel Medal from Carl Augusto and Paul Schroeder of AFB: It’s a great honor to address the leadership of this field, and receive the Migel Medal in recognition of our shared commitment to service to the community of people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Corporate giving isn’t just about writing checks; it’s a strategic partnership between businesses and nonprofits to transform communities. Year-round CSR strategies enable companies to make an enduring difference in their communities and for the causes they support. This increased generosity is good news for nonprofits!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But each and every one of us, regardless of our age and background, can contribute to promoting peace in our communities and beyond. One of them was 9-year-old peace activist and author, Bana Alabed, talking about being a child who experienced war in Aleppo, Syria. I asked my mom ‘Mom, why does nobody hear us?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Our vision is simply to build a community and resource hub to equip more refugee-serving organizations. The situation became severe with unprecedented numbers of people seeking asylum after the Syrian conflict got going. Our Vision.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

A volunteer sharing how investments of time became the fruits of change in their community. 3 World Vision: “Prayer for Syria” (90 sec). Beautifully shot with no implicit call for support, “Prayer for Syria” is a neat hat trick of micro/macro storytelling. 4 War Child: “Moms” (60 sec).

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APRIL 21, 2023

When you focus on what makes a donor feel good, you create more long-term donor relationships, bringing them together in a community around your cause. One private school set a reasonable goal of $4,000 to help raise relief funds for the earthquakes in Syria. The outcome? They also uncovered how “It’s not about how we talk to them.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

What drives you and motivates you to create change in your community? Tell us about the change you're making in your community. This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. Share your story.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

Much of the non-governmental funding went to the Maui Strong Fund at the Hawai‘i Community Foundation (HCF), which received almost $188 million in donations (including earned interest) as of March 22. As far as we know, this is the highest amount ever raised by a single community foundation for a non-terrorism-related disaster.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Department of State just funded us to help LGBT groups in Uganda securely capture documentation of abuses against those communities (again, our funders are not responsible for this post). We work all over the world, and our Martus software has been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Khmer and other languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. Our Silicon Valley tech community roots give us an inside track on technology and business model change. Benetech was also the first group to bring usable cryptography to the human rights field.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 2, 2018

#MeToo was meant to be a movement that provides “empowerment through empathy” to survivors of sexual abuse, assault, exploitation and harassment, especially those in underprivileged communities. Volunteers interviewed nine Syrian refugees who crossed the Mediterranean to Greece about their lives before they left Syria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Department of State just funded us to help LGBT groups in Uganda securely capture documentation of abuses against those communities (again, our funders are not responsible for this post). We work all over the world, and our Martus software has been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Khmer and other languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

For example, the UN Refugee Agency, encourages all field officers to tell the stories of the refugees they are working with as this recent tweet from Syria illustrates. It has value for government, the policy community and public service delivery organisations. UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) January 13, 2014.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. The birth of CompuMentor is described in Howard Rheingold’s The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. How TechSoup Started. And I do see that movement building.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily grant the Trump administration's request to reinstate portions of its travel ban (blocking people from six countries - Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Somalia - from entering the United States), CARE reignited their #BetterThanTheBan campaign. Get Involved. Twitter | Facebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2017

From Syria to China to Mexico, mass economic and politically-driven migration and refugee crises are triggering social tension, the rebooting of nationalisms and the emboldening of old prejudices. A popular sense, shared by millions, of being shut out of the gains created by globalization. Mass migration.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

Chicago Community Midwives also uses a blog as their site's home page. Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student. They recently posted about the Chicago Tribune article, "Behind Bars, But Still Girls".

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