Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

MadebySurvivors sells beautiful handicrafts and awesome gifts all made by survivors and people at very high risk for slavery. Can't get much more pertinent for holiday hope than the gift of human beings caring for one another! Foundation's Gifts of Hope have been created to initiate a revolution in giving ??? Photo by Dmason.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Facebook's Gift Shop Sings A New Tune - washingtonpost.com: "While you can currently purchase gifts from non-profits, like Kiva, Project Red, TOMS Shoes, Charity Water and the World Wildlife Fund, Facebook is now also including gifts via the Causes application.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

If your mom is the kind of person who prefers a donation to a physical gift, below are a few ideas. Please feel free to add more do-good Mother's Day gift ideas in the comments. Oxfam America Unwrapped and fund virtual gifts like a pair of school uniforms for $20 , or planting 50 trees for $30. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Give them a cake or have everyone sign a birthday card with a small gift. Kiva, the microfinance organization, gives a monthly 30-minute recess to enjoy unstructured “play time” at the office. Recognize Birthdays and Work Anniversaries: Look for a fun way to celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 17, 2011

As part of the Omidyar Network's grant to Kiva, all donations through June 30th will be matched dollar for dollar. Painted gift wrap outside in sunshine!! After going to Amoeba, we visited a few artists' studios as part of the East Bay Open Studios , including the Institute for Mosaic Arts. Do you know of any others?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Give your donors a hassle-free mobile web and donation experience, and your donors will thank you — perhaps even with another gift. Crowdfunding uses the same dynamic of many small gifts as peer to peer fundraising, and is a great potential for growth in our sector. Crowdfunding and Generational Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

And I've already gotten two early gifts and wanted to say thank you! Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! I "met" Mark Grimes ( Ned.com ) virtually on Omidyar Network and he was part of a group that proposed community support for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

She also stressed that this philosophy is as important for giving gifts of $10 as it is for $10 million. Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization. Soren asked a terrific question about how technology and being connected helps or gets in the way of giving.

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MAY 23, 2008

Kiva breaks it. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. Room to Read breaks it. GlobalGiving breaks it. GOOD magazine breaks it. Causes on Facebook breaks it. People to people fundraising breaks it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica Jackley Flannery is the kind of person who makes you feel at home right away, like she is truly happy to meet you, which is why I wasn't surprised when she said, "Kiva started out of relationships and love, ideally I would love for that to be present in every single transaction that happens. What is Kiva? How did Kiva start?

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JANUARY 30, 2008

In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale. These changes in technology are creating fundamental changes in how people see their role, the community and their identity. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

And while Pete Cashmore announced that he would be doing a charity event in September around his 24th birthday, I'm wondering what charity wedding registry Sharon and Adam will register with? ( Kiva ?) The big news for me was the launch next week of virtual gifts for charities. She also included some practical advice.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

Examples of such opportunities might be jobs, petitions, volunteer openings, events, gifts in kind, or surplus office space. Tools that deliver ephemeral information include Social Actions , Craigslist , Idealist’s job database , Freecycle , Sparked, Groundcrew, Kiva , VolunteerMatch , NPO-Connect , and Community Corps.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

It didn't matter whether gifts of money and time went to churches or symphony orchestras — givers to all types of religious and secular causes were far happier than non-givers." I'm a big fan of Kiva too. Similarly, volunteers were 42% more likely to be very happy than non-volunteers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Kiva's a great example. They provide people opportunities to buy a llama and give it as a gift to someone. They set out a goal to raise, I believe it was $135 million dollars, through million dollar, or more women's gifts. You can see your impact with your donation, and your engagement right away. They don't need it.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. However, there is little disagreement that direct mail is the greatest source of new donors and directly accounts for a substantial proportion of all philanthropic gifts.

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