Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My colleague, Anne Whately, who works for Network Impact watched the web cast and offered to share what she learned: Notes from the Lean Impact Webcast by Anne Whately. As someone who has worked on web and digital projects for the last 15 years I have watched even the best laid plans require evolution as the project unfolds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

This Read/Write Web feature series on Read/WriteWeb feature is about non-profits and the Web. They are exploring how non-profit organizations use the Web and the tools available for them in the last three years or since this Wired article was published ( For Nonprofits, Web Is Windfall ). We turn to "web 2.0"

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APRIL 25, 2022

A 404 page is a web page that users view when they enter an undiscovered or incorrect URL in their browser. Based on internet lore, the 404 error message goes back to the 1980s when a group of scientists at CERN (Switzerland) were working on the World Wide Web. This article will help map out how you can go from fine to fantastic.

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JULY 7, 2010

Over the past few years, several web portals have started bringing disintermediation, the power of shared action and collective intelligence, and fundraising opportunities to the nonprofit sector. Kiva is probably the best-known example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Earlier this week, the Overbrook Foundation released a report on Web 2.0 Allison Fine, author of the report titled, "Web 2.0 All of the groups are using the web for donations; some to much greater success than others. We also talked about the challenges of making leap from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 to Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Completion of Fundraising Campaigns or Big Project: Did your organization just complete a successful fundraising campaign or maybe you just launched a new web presence or database. Kiva, the microfinance organization, gives a monthly 30-minute recess to enjoy unstructured “play time” at the office.

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JUNE 29, 2009

We’re here to help nonprofits master the social Web to bring about meaningful social change,” said J.D. There’s nothing else like this on the Web for nonprofits, social change organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and educators. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0

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APRIL 6, 2010

With built-in sharing functions, a web view for more details on each story, and a simple, no-nonsense interface, HumaneTV offers animal lovers the most useful and informative video experience in the App Store. Kiva :: Download. App Name: KivaAlerts. Updated: May 6, 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I attended a panel called "The Future of Social Innovation on the Web" This all-guy panel was facilitated by Dennis Whittle, Global Giving and featured Premal Shah, Kiva.org; Jonathan Greenblatt, Our Good Works; Steve Newcomb, Virgance; and Ben Rattray, Change.org. He defined it as: "If Web 1.0 I tweeted some of the key points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That is, versions of their Web site content on a iPhone. In the meantime, we'll certainly see more and more nonprofits release branded content in native iPhone format. A couple of examples: California HealthCare Foundation. American Cancer Society More Birthdays App. New York Philharmonic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

If you have trouble opening the donate link in Firefox, like I did, try it in another web browser. Create an interactive card for your mom on the U.N. World Food Programme's Wall Against Hunger. Women for Women International to support women survivors of war. Your mom will receive a a handmade card made by a woman in their program in Rwanda.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

They collect ways for you to get involved in the causes you care about from 30+ action sources like Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch. They'll also be launching a web application development contest, Change the Web 2009 , in January.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The social side of giving : ow various organisations, from Justgiving to Virgin Money Giving, have made it easier to organise online donations, while new charities like Help4Heroes and Kiva have shown how it's possible to use the web to promote a cause and get funds flowing rapidly and efficiently. BBC News - Charity 2.0:

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MARCH 12, 2008

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

Bay Area The Hub social innovation web activism Kiva Change.org Virgance by Tony Wang on Philosopher 2.0 Social Innovators Converge at The Hub by Nancy Friedman on InBerkeley What are your tips for mobilizing online action? Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

PayAnywhere (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a mobile and web-based payment processing service that lets you accept donations from just about anywhere. Windows Phone) brings your Kiva portfolio to your Windows phone. Any staff member or volunteer with a smartphone can plug in the PayAnywhere card reader and take donations on the spot.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. You’ll find: A directory of Web 2.0

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2005

Kiva.org Merges Philanthropy and Venture Capital With First-Ever Microlending Web Site: Financial News - Yahoo! For the first time, Kiva.org opens the Internet to people looking for a personal, high-engagement means of taking steps to eradicate poverty in developing countries by lending money directly to small businesses."

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Di's Book Blog recommends using the BookSense web site to find independent bookstores near you. Empower an Entrepreneur with a Kiva Loan. You can give a Kiva gift certificate for as little as $25. Check out what he had to say about Kiva on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Buy Books from Your Local, Independent Bookstore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? How does it work? What are its pitfalls? Submitted by Dave Cohn.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Chelsea Bocci of Kiva.org also hit on this theme as she discussed several social media engagement campaigns Kiva has done in recent years, and how with each campaign they learn from their mistakes and adjust their strategy to better engage their community. Happy People Give More and Giving People Are Happier. every year.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Where are the stories of the courageous people who through their own efforts, or with a little leg up such as a Kiva loan, overcome their material poverty to create a brighter tomorrow for themselves and their communities, one person at a time. . There’s a lot of doom and gloom around at the moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Identity trends on the Social Web. How does it work?

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Check out some of the nonprofits that are currently on Twitter’s Suggested User List: @Kiva @CharityWater @SkollFoundation @Refugees - UN Refugee Agency @Ashoka @Water - Water.org @GatesFoundation @AcumenFund @DoSomething @PeaceCorps @OneCampaign @Care - CareUSA. What inspired the Twitter love?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Project Baobob , an organization that provides free education in business skills for Kenyan youth, and Kiva , a web-based organization that allows individuals, like you and me, to make microloans (rather than a donation) to individuals via the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 In addition, no visuals either.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Started with an idea two years ago that the web is important because it helps people organize for themselves and impacts how we make things work; but in order to make that happen you have to bring people together who are interested in making it real. What can we do with groups like Kiva? Social Innovation Camp: the story so far.

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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. Donors have multiple options in crowdfunding platforms: Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Kiva, Crowdrise, GiveEffect — and this list is growing fast. Crowdfunding and Generational Giving.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

Allison mentions a few more like mico-finance like Kiva's small loans to entrepreneurs here and abroad. . In a session at the Web 2.0 In the nonprofit sector, we have micro-fundraising (giving small amounts of money on social networks like Twitter).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

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. For more details go to Menu for Hope. It's a great chance to have fun and do good this holiday season. 300 in San Francisco).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good! Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? How does it work? What are its pitfalls? Submitted by Dave Cohn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Lucy Bernholz reports that embedded giving - in which a charitable transaction becomes part of any other financial transaction, such as checking out of the grocery store and making a donation to diabetes care - has gone web 2.0 Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers. and describes SocialVibe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

This is just one person's small effort to use the social web to change the world !    For my part, I'm loaning $25 to Prom Pha l, a Cambodian woman, via Kiva.  Observe is his photos in flickr , read his blog , follow him on Twitter , join his Ning community , and learn why you should care about poverty.

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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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