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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

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Lessons Learned About Social Networks and Fundraising from Cambodia Campaign on ChipIn

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Shel Israel. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Friends Telling Friends

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But your job in the nonprofit is to make it easy, to give them the tools to tell the story in the way you want it told, to have compelling photos and media materials that they can use, to easily provide links for others to donate. I was thinking about this this morning when I received an email from my friend Brian Blum in Israel.

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What is Lethal Generosity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Molson launched a campaign to replace the public funding with private sector donations, starting with its own $20K donation. Almost immediately a small group started to raise money through Twitter. Take for example contests.

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