Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Here's part of the report: J ohn near the end was faced with the tricky question of, if he had to chose 3 issues with priority over others, which would he chose for SL. He said he would more focus on the "death and destruction" in northern Uganda and Eastern Congo. A report about the event from Hastac.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Cristi Hegranes: My name is Cristi Hegranes and I am the President and Founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World which is an international nonprofit organization that was founded in order to train women in developing countries to become investigative reporters to report their own news. CH: Yes, we do.

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Global Giving

MARCH 26, 2019

He kept probing and soon discovered a system of forced labor in the Belgian Congo that would become one of history’s notorious humanitarian crises. By focusing on the information that should’ve been there, but wasn’t, Morel exposed a dark truth that may have never been revealed to the public eye.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). In fact, The Millennial Impact Report found that 78% of millennials will cease to donate if they don’t know how their gift has made an impact. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2010

Patrick Ball, Benetech's Chief Scientist and Vice President of our Human Rights Program, is spending much of this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to news reports Chebeya was found dead in his car early the next morning. Patrick is working with a UN human rights project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We even get Skypes from a woman from Kenya named Leah, who was one of our first grassroots women reporters. We unite those voices to accelerate change. Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content. I've got this. I'm spreading it now. I'm carrying this."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

Our human rights team cares deeply about the issue of truth in human rights reporting. A guest Beneblog by By Anita Gohdes, Megan Price, and Patrick Ball Several media organizations including Reuters , Foreign Policy and New Scientist covered the January 21 release of the 2009 Human Security Report (HSR) entitled, “The Shrinking Cost of War.”

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Via GlobalVoices , information about the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 1 million people have fled the province of North Kivu. An interesting, and hopefully valuable, effort to mitigate the situation is the "Ushahidi" web site for reporting of incidents of violence and abuse. Newsfeed here.).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Last summer I talked about our great summer interns and fellows and early this year, I sent a copy of our 20th Anniversary Report that talked about our entire history. Benetech President's Update Winter 2011 I’m pleased to provide you you a detailed update on Benetech for the first time in two years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada. That’s when they decided that youth, who are idealistic, energetic and open-minded, would be the engine to peacebuilding to ensure that genocide does not go unchallenged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Focus on the outcomes and keep reporting on the work you are doing. Should be part of a multi-channel effort -- they all work together. What's important is figuring out the right amount of time to invest in particular channels. These blogs raised $350,000 to pay rangers salaries and help save mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Three years later when we received a report back from the group about how they had done, there were five shaky signatures. In the case of the women I spoke about earlier, they really wanted to measure their success by being able to read and write and sign their own letters, and write their own reports.

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