Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Second, the massive storage and searching capacities that underlie systems like GuideStar now make it a commonplace assumption that basic information on nonprofit organizations should be only a “click away.” This leads to systems like DonorEdge or Blackbaud’s Nonprofit Central. These are exciting developments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

leave a comment and come to SXSW in March to join the debate with Jacob Colker (Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries ), Premal Shah (President of Kiva ) and Jason Cooper (Online Coordinator at Kaboom.org ). Help us out and vote for our panel “Can Double-Clicking Change The World? Slacktivism 101?

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MAY 23, 2008

"The old systems get broken long before new ones become stable." Kiva breaks it. How do you transition the ways you fund your mission without cracking the foundation? How long do you hold on to what has always worked before you risk getting caught high and dry? One day at a time. One tide change at a time. Care2 breaks it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Kiva connects individuals with unique small businesses in the developing world, and helps to orchestrate a one-on-one micro-loan. Teach For America is an organization working to inspire our country's most able and determined college graduates to stand up and fight injustice in the educational system. The organization works to educate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization. He also talked about how self-organizing networks (think Occupy) form as a sort of immune system response because there is something missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Sloane Berrent, a Kiva fellow, social philanthropy activist and a former executive at Causecast who’s currently serving a three-month tour in the Philippines. And a thank-you to the coders at Intense Debate for the commenting system we settled on. Uta Ritke , the Marin County graphic designer who designed our logotype.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

America’s Giving Challenge = push vs. Kiva peer-to-peer microfinance = pull. zerostrategist : Q6: Do the best u can to setup automated systems to capture metrics, look at the numbers, but don’t obsess over them or the ROI. . “campaign.&# “Initiative&# tends to get people motivated and is action-focused.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

maintaining systems or tools for which they didn???t There was almost universal frustration voiced about using outside technology consultants. The organizations felt that it was difficult to identify an appropriate one and felt that they were often left. t feel qualified.

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See3

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

APRIL 20, 2007

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan. And some background reading. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Kiva , charity:water and a few others were mentioned. See Rachel Weidinger's thoughts about the importance of a donation system respecting donor privacy, though.). They were looking for a charity that was transparent and could easily demonstrate the impact of their fundraising efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

(Fact Sheet: Volunteering as a Vehicle for Social Support and Life Satisfaction , Public Health Agency of Canada) Volunteering can improve self-esteem, reduce heart rates and blood pressure, increase endorphin production, enhance immune systems, buffer the impact of stress, and combat social isolation. I'm a big fan of Kiva too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

Empower entrepreneurs at the grassroots to start micro-enterprises: @ Kiva , @ DarfurStoves. Create an ethical and sustainable food production and distribution system: @ SlowFoodUSA , @ FarmSanctuary. Prevent children from dying from lack of access to clean water or medical care: @ Water , @ AlexsLemonade.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Kiva's a great example. Then, I wanted to be a lawyer and I realized the legal system wasn't a place where I felt like I could have a lot of impact on individual people's lives. You can go on and be a loan partner with another community, and give to a woman or a man that you can see who they are. I interned for a public defender.

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