Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2008

I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge. Screencapture of photo by Brian Westbrook.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

” Those buying decisions include donation and charitable decisions, and with women bringing in over half the income in 55% of US households, nonprofits should think about how they can engage Pinterest’s largely female audience. If you're a church, synagogue, or other religious organization: Credit to Flickr user: evilpeacock 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding.

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MAY 24, 2010

Communities in Schools works with other nonprofit organizations to bring programs into schools to help students with academics, social issues, counseling, mentoring, and financial support. As students passed by our classroom throughout the day while we were working I came to understand how important Communities in Schools is to each of them.

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JULY 3, 2006

According to DonorsChoose: "low income" refers to the percentage of students at a given school who qualify for free lunch, which is considered a measure of economic need. To be deemed eligible for free lunch, a student must submit a form showing family income at or below 130% of the poverty line. This photo has an Attribution 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. I blogged it and was initially very excited! Tharum was disappointed too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Instead, we bring over supplies for the Sharing Foundation , mostly in-kind donations of clothing, medicine, or other items that can't be easily acquired or are cheaper in the US. The college students enjoyed the t-shirts too even though they were not aware of the companies. They said thank in Khmer and bowed without being prompted!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Donate 5% of my income. Adult volunteers read once a week, one-on-one with two students for 30 minutes each. Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag. 2009 resolution New Year volunteer donate Oakland local business Increase the number of people of color I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Flickr Photo from Lanier67. " Justin Perkins pointed out one flaw with Causes design: it asks a person to make a donation before educating or cultivating them. Where's the opportunity for to cultivate and get to know those joiners and move them up the ladder to donation? invite your friends then donate???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   There is no simple, clear answers. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? It lets you ask your friends for donations instead of presents and makes it easy to thank them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

The students are the children of the poorest families of Roteang Village and who participate in the Sharing Foundation's farm project. I am certain I would have donated to this effort in support of you. The donation happened due to the contributions you have made to me and my work via your blog. Flickr Supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. My fundraising colleagues concur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

"If you just need bodies at a rally, names on a petition or donations in your coffers, mobilizing through traditional means will work great. Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool. Networking for Change. Don't be afraid of the tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Support Peace Work Around the World Peace Project Fellow, Alison Long Photo in Flickr, Used with Permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. In the descriptions, I added the URL to the campaign page.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Nancy Hendrie and Tep Vuthea Photo from flickr. s younger sisters are 2 of over 500 students who are learning English in a program in the local village supported and run by TSF. ??? My proudest moment was when the first group of college students started school. t want to spend her retirement years on the golf course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

So, I figured what the heck, I'll make her a friend and ask her to donate. Just like you would in flickr or other social networking tools. I recently did an interview with a HBS student who was researching MySpace and Second Life (looking at Second Life from the standpoint of social networking). Well, she did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

I posted her notice on several other channels (adoptive parents of Cambodian kids, flickr Cambodian group, etc) and she is getting inquiries and offers of more cameras. The project will begin with 5 students, and expand up to ten as the project grows. She told me she had just listed the project in Craig's list in MN.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. Flickr users started that tradition ten years ago. Boundless communities. Momentum without limits. Empower participants and constituents. And together, we will create a better world.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr Photo by DonkeyHotey. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). No more donations to our charity. He offered to do this guest post about it. Or file a DMCA notice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5 Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

Shel Israel donated three books. The launch party was lots of fun - lots of Twitterville's most prominent residents were there as you can see from the #tbash stream and the photos in Flickr by Kenneth Yeung. Please share the book with Kathy and her students) Sue Anne Reed from. I kicked in my three preview copies.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people. Well, they want to know number one, has my donation made a difference? You know, don’t just send it after they’ve made a donation, send a thank-you or send a special note when they least expect it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”).

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. First a little background. They are growing like crazy.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Or, more specifically at The Tech, you're paying for a student (all school kids visit The Tech free). I'm a free member of Flickr, LinkedIn, and a variety of other websites. Could a museum function in which admission is free but there are small "Click to donate" opportunities throughout for programs and exhibits? Which leads to.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Flickr Photo: clevercupcakes I recently got an email from an NYU graduate student in Public Relations, Paola Christina Lamarca. The same number of people considered ‘amount of online donations’ as an important criteria when evaluating the influence of their social media efforts. So here are her questions and my answers.

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