Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We just announced a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative , to increase our impact in India by an order of magnitude. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When the donor clicks through to the donation page, a call to action should be prominent like “Your gift helps us feed the homeless!” Even if you don’t think you have time or space to tell stories in words, use videos and photos to let your potential donors know the difference their gifts can make. Update your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

She posted this about the Menu for Hope , a little fundraiser by food blogger, to help people affected by the earthquake in Northern India and Pakistan. I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dina Mehta , a blogger from Indian and fabulous person. I love seeing how grassroots fundraising translates to blogs.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Read on to get the full effect: The Google Impact Challenge is in India! Take this quick survey and be entered in a drawing to win an Amazon.com gift certificate. Indian nonprofits have 17 days left to submit their innovative approach or technology to solve today''s biggest problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In addition to being gifted musically, Malkin is also the newest youth ambassador of Save the Children , an institution that serves children in need in around the world. He mentioned developments in the technology – like the $35 tablet in India – that are getting many more people who were left out connected.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Matching Gifts, Dollars for Doers, and Nonprofit Board Service. Symantec offers a generous Matching Gift Program — up to $1,000 per employee per year — and also rewards sustained volunteerism by making a contribution to organizations where employees volunteer their time through their Dollars for Doers Program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

If you're going to spend that kind of cash, why not give a gift that gives back? Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. I'd love to compile a list of stores with gifts that give back. this holiday season, up from $738.11 last year."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event. In its first iteration, Vote Report India leveraged Co-creation by creating a platform for collectively tracking irregularities in the 2009 Indian elections. However, the focus is on Content.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. The CS team hosts opportunities for employees to participate in planned community service days, and run a robust Matching Gifts and Dollars for Doers program to enhance their employees’ volunteerism and charitable giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. This personalization technique can be used to insert the donor’s name, asking them by name to step up an increase their gift in 2010. Embed Video on a Donation Page. Test, but be careful.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

Or how about asking your family to purchase gift wrap as a way to raise funds around the holidays? For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

That same son spent four months training in India when he was fresh out of college. It is not “major gifts officer.” Trey wasn’t in the room. I was amazed to learn that my son was with him online, in their community. I did not learn that day’s lesson. His relationships did not suffer. The job I am describing is not “event manager.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

If you are going to buy something anyway, as a gift, or for yourself as a decorative item, or for your home, then why not buy something that has the hope or a dream of another person embedded into it, and by purchasing that thing, you are joining with them to pull that forward.-- retail market. So that is like a rounding error.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Chris Brogan and 81 other Twitter users helped reached this goal with small gifts in 24 hours. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0 In fact, the campaign went over goal and we able to raise enough money to send another young person to college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2005

The donations are being collected by UNICEF through the First Giving web site to raise money for earthquake survivors from Northern India and Pakistan. It would be a great holiday season gift idea too if you wanted your family and friends to donate to the cause of your choice rather than to give you stuff. Nonprofits can use it too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

There’s still time for your organization to secure important year-end gifts—if you can capture people’s attention and motivate them to support your cause. But now, we’re in the final weeks of the year, when many people make their annual charitable contributions. How can you break through the noise?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.

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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. The man denied it and left.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

So what we do is we use bamboo, one, in a lot of our packaging, in a lot of our merchandising, and our racks, and our gift boxes, and as I'm sure a lot of people know, bamboo is an extremely abundant natural resource, and it re-grows. So that is pretty much, I would say, 90% of our gift boxes and our merchandising is bamboo.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Responses were received from 2,383 individuals in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Face-to-face fundraising is mentioned most frequently by respondents from the Netherlands, major donor cultivation is cited by respondents from Canada, India, and the U.K.,

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

If you cannot live with yourself unless you offer something, offer a matching gift instead of a discount). During this crisis, we conducted a study on a sample of over 600 people from primarily the United States and India. Wouldn’t it be nice if you know, this family can do this for as long as this crisis shall last? (

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This year’s most common words were “gift” and “Holiday” with “GivingTuesday” also being used a lot. Very Last Chance to Make a 2013 Tax-Deductible Gift. You still have a few hours to make a 2013 gift to __’s animals. Last chance to support nonprofits nationwide with a single gift….

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Instead of receiving a flurry of gifts you don't really want, you can instead divert that into donations through Causes' platform. Another example, Give India , shows off the community features provided by a Causes page. Facebook already has a system in place for recognizing your birthday and alerting your friends.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

It’s a gift,” that’s a shift in perception. Well, if it’s a gift, who can I give this gift to? So I’m working with someone and he has an organization based in India. Thank you so much for giving us gift in her honor. If I can say, “Fundraising isn’t a burden.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2007

SK: I just completed a film called A Drop of Life , which is a film about the future of water; it's about a woman from America who comes to India to seal a deal that would put plastic prepaid credit card meters on the village water pumps so you can't get water unless you have a prepaid card. Britt Bravo: What are you working on now?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

I was born in India, in Bombay, and I have four brothers and sisters. We have a scholarship fund that gives scholarships to at-risk children along the Thai-Burma border; that is something else that can be gifted in honor of family members. BB: What brought you to this work? Why do you do this work? A lot of people like that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Through my work with Packard Foundation and with IIE and the State Department, I have have the opportunity to work with NGOs from places like Pakistan, Rwanda, India, and the Middle East. I work as a trainer and capacity builder for nonprofits and technology and more lately social media and networked approaches.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

My mother believed very deeply that being privileged middle class Indians, the community that I grew up in India, required us to have a commitment and a sense of giving back to the communities that we grew up in and around, and to really seeing those communities. What do you know about the charter for human rights?

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