Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

He pledged that anyone who donated would have the name printed on the newspaper. About 121,000 Americans donated (most of it in less than $1). Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, The Archbishop of South Africa, Desmond TUTU, was a keynote speaker of the AFP conference. So in 5 months, they raised the $100K. 1000 Action Tasks.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. The goal is for people to have "an ongoing conversation that is positive and informed and that inform purchasing and donation decisions for the rest of their lives." or read on for a recap. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Make a donation to Breadline Africa. Invite your friends and readers to donate to Breadline Africa.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief. By the morning of the 14th, donations had already hit $3 Million.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief. By the morning of the 14th, donations had already hit $3 Million. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

This research took me immediately to Sally Matthews, senior lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. That NGO can continue for the foreseeable future, operating chiefly on Western dollars and donations. We say, “it’s better”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

Being part of the Schwab Social Entrepreneur program, I had met Garth Japhet from South Africa, who works in this field, and I wanted to understand more of what he does. I attended a dinner at the Africa Economic Summit on the topic, and what was surprising was how little interest the business community showed in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

When I shared the photo with my network, I received comments from people who had supported my fundraisers over the years — comments that made me think that everyone felt good about being able to make a small donation and really change someone’s life. Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

You can also donate Lindens to one of our Fundraisers, or drop it into the donation box at our virtual office here on Second Life. We had an office a while back that someone donated but it disappeared, so we got a booth at 1st Life Aid, a few other places and we are just starting to set up a presence with the Nonprofit Commons Project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We decided to run a six-week campaign so that our fundraisers had plenty of time to sign up and reach out to their connections for donations. Email is still the best way to get donations. A huge majority of the donations I received came from friends of my family, and I didn’t even directly ask them. Get social!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

This is storytelling with a purpose, each story ending with the option of taking action, share the story or donate. Momconnect is a bot developed by the Praekelt Maternal Health , an initiative that uses mobile technology to improve the health of pregnant women, newborns and infants in South Africa. The Pop Bot. Conclusion.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

Schoolhouse Supplies is a nonprofit based in northeast Portland that helps to serve classrooms in need by operating a volunteer-run Free Store for Teachers, which is stocked with donated supplies.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Convio recently put out an impressive infographic depicting how much money Americans donate online. Did you know that the average online donation reached $91.94 This year’s No Pain No Gain campaign aims to expand key SANGONeT services to support nonprofit organizations in South Africa. What’s new in ePhilanthropy ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. The workers there had a flood last year, so we have been donating about 25% of our proceeds from our bamboo purchases back to them, so they can rebuild their factories, have better working conditions, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We introduced rooibos and honeybush from South Africa, which was never heard of in America. The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories. And we also innovated. We don't use that much wood.

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