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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

There are seven free online courses available starting in mid-September by people like Paul Brest, former head of the Hewlett Foundation and a faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. All of the Philanthropy University courses are free and available anywhere in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The webinar earlier this week from the Lean Start up team, Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations, did begin to address this gap with a discussion and examples from Akash Trivedi of Kiva Zip, a pilot program from the nonprofit Kiva and Christie George from New Media Ventures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And Kiva ([link] builds on already existing networks (including that network of networks we call the Internet) to give people the opportunity to loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. As philanthropy takes up ‘network thinking’ as its next frontier, there is the danger that we’ll get too caught up in the technicalities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Submitted by Lucy Bernholz, publisher of Philanthropy 2173. Everything I have seen in philanthropic innovation in the last two decades is predicated on this simple observation—there are two kinds of philanthropy products: financial products and information products. These are exciting developments. But we’re getting there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

And please note: We’re here not only to show how social tools can be used to advance the social good – but to learn from you as well. Productivity Tools in dozens of categories that can help organizations get a handle on the social Web. jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. You won’t see marketing flackery here.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Cooks' tools. Bay Area readers: You can hear Pim and the co-founder of Kiva, Matt Flannery, talk about Fundraising for Nonprofits with the Social Web tomorrow, December 12th, at NetSquared's Net Tuesday. Menu for Hope Chez Pim food blog philanthropy Here's how it works: "The more you give, the better your chance to win."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy. via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. In addition, no visuals either. fundraising, and direct mail is dying.

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