article thumbnail

Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. They showed Harry Dickerson reclaim his life from homelessness on their Giving Tuesday campaign and raised over $70,000 with this storyline. For example, I raised $120,000 for Japan disaster relief by showing how the tsunami destroyed cities and displaced communities.

Practice 135
article thumbnail

Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. Photos: InterConnection.org. I was going to list all the countries where they send computers, but it’s just too long.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Thank You Michael Pick for Supporting Leng Sopharath's Junior Year: He's My Number 2 Top Friend on Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He lives in Japan. If 100 Facebook friends (or their friends) donate a minimum of $10 and spread the word to their friends, we can change her life forever! In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. She spoke about how much our support makes a difference in her life.

article thumbnail

Volunteering: Making the Connection

Connection Cafe

Going out and volunteering my time with a nonprofit gives me the opportunity to live a day in their shoes and see life from their perspective. The paper cranes, I learned, were to be sent to Japan in honor of a young girl affected by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima named Sadako.

article thumbnail

Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This is an astonishing technology for good in which large numbers of ordinary people analyze photos of cells cultures to identify irregular shaped cancer cell cores. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. See the map here. Netflix for E-books.

News 52
article thumbnail

Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

Photo by Rob de la Cretaz "We're so busy. I decided to do a little anonymous act of kindness, take photos, call it a secret mission, put it up on a blog, and then I told her about it. I have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. I follow your blog, and you don't put up every photo that everyone sends you, do you?

Cancer 68