Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. We stayed in amazing places and enjoyed incredible meals by some of the top Chefs in Israel. Exercise #4: Leadership Dilemmas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen this first hand. For the past two years, I’ve been facilitating an online peer learning exchange for Knight Foundation grantees who are using the Giving Day Playbook , developed by Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies for those wanting to host Giving Days.

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JUNE 7, 2012

NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation. Emily Comisar. Manager of National Projects. Conveying ideas through imagery doesn't have to involve the expertise of a trained designer. The basic tools are already in our arsenal: circles, squares, arrows, even smiley faces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. This information was given to artist Paulina Correa who created a visual from the interview which was presented to us upon our departure from Israel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Machine Made Goods: Charities, Philanthropy & Artificial Intelligence Report: The Charities Aid Foundation (GivingTuesday UK partner) has recently released a report that discusses the profound implications Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have for civil society and the work of charities. Are Small Charities Being Left Out?

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MARCH 4, 2021

The Adult Congenital Heart Association received a matching grant from the Meil Family Foundation to help them fundraise in February. Check out this example from Israel Tennis & Education Centers Foundation. You can build a strong fundraising campaign off of a matching grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia. ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia, focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia. I started blogging [.]

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation released an interactive map of High Holiday services and celebrations to help connect young people with opportunities all over the country and in their own community. Read the full interview to get a sense of Ami and his plans for Idealist's future.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

StartL, a new education VC fund backed by a number of leading American foundations, will be launching there. I also personally delivered the business cards of Abbas Abbas, a blind Ashoka social entrepreneur, who focuses on serving the needs of Arabs with disabilities in Israel with his AlManarah (Lighthouse) Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I'm looking forward to attending the fundraiser in Silicon Valley where there will be fundraising raffle for signed books by these authors: Shel Israel – Twitterville Mitchell Levy 42 Rules for Driving Success with Books Janet Fouts- Social Media Success! Other goodies will also be raffled off to raise money for Epic Change at the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

My children, now age and 10, have been big helpers in all my online fundraising campaigns for the Sharing Foundation. And this year, Harry sent some of his birthday loot to the Sharing Foundation , making me proud that he is following my tradition of giving to celebrate a birthday. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Organization(s) : The Fair & Lovely Foundation and Hindustan Unilever Limited. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The sessions used an hour long talk show format with Case Foundation's Kari Dunn Saratovsky as the host. You'll see those below and the Case Foundation Twitter account is tweeting these tidbits today) I was a little nervous that an hour-long talking head interview might be boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

The money goes to the Sharing Foundation. My fourth personal fundraising campaign started off with a modest goal - $1,000 to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. which manages the program. This campaign took 24 hours, with 50% of the goal coming in during the last two hours and we went over goal!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. In 2009, he became an Ashoka Foundation senior fellow for his work as a leading social entrepreneur. But I'm sure, in my gut, that nothing gets fixed without foundational interpersonal respect on a global scale. Daniel has lots of awards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

She also mentioned that the Case Foundation will be doing the giving challenge for a second time , so stay tuned. The morning included a speech by Kari Dunn Saratovsky who talked offline/online connections as well as some of the challenges that charities face such as cause fatigue and slacktivism. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Jane Quigley who I first met via Chris Brogan and my fundraising campaign to send Leng Soparath to college via the Sharing Foundation 's education program. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. Like many nonprofits these days, decreased foundation support means we're really struggling financially. So I said I'd kick in my copy. Brian Reich author of Media Rules left a comment offering to include a copy of his book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The money goes to the Sharing Foundation. UPDATE: Anything over the $1,000 will support the Sharing Foundation's general fund to provide scholarships for college students in the program who don't have individual sponsors. The Personal Fundraising Campaign Surpassed Its Goal Faster Than I Could Say Thank You! which manages the program.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

People Everyone's read by now that Bill Gates will begin transitioning out of his responsibilities at Microsoft to devote himself to the charitible foundation he and his wife created. And learn more about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation here. Read the Microsoft press release here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

This information becomes the foundation of your messaging, so don’t skip this discovery phase! Here’s an example of a successful print campaign where every aspect reinforced the key messages: The New Israel Fund (NIF) was embarking on a $40M Legacy campaign in honor of their 40 th anniversary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Here's one to benefit Make A Wish Foundation, each tweet will drive a 5 cent donation from LeapFish to raise $10,000. If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. There are already a number of active causes on TwitCause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , was one of the first large scale contests launching in 2007 and giving away $500,000 to spur citizen philanthropy and nonprofit adoption of social networking sites. I literally gasped!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 8, 2011

Here are some of my favorites: Funding research that helps Dogs Live Longer, Healthier Lives ( Canine Health Foundation ). Caretakers of the land and people of Israel. Basically a tagline is a quick “what we do” statement that immediately communicates to site visitors your organization’s purpose. SafeKids ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. and you kind of go through your rebel phase. What are you doing to turn this thing around?"

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