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What I Learned About Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Social Impact at IFCAsia in Bangkok

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. She studied the German, Czech, and Spanish languages and has lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, including Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand.

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Behind the Scenes: America Supporting Americas

Connection Cafe

Linda has been hard at work since the Vietnam War to connect active military servicepeople with supportive organizations back home. She first got involved in this important work while visiting troops in Vietnam in 1968 (where she met and married her husband who was serving as her military escort)!

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. "Every year, we hold a photo exhibition of children from the villages we support to raise awareness in Japan. Photo of Haitian children courtesy of ATCAC.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. Photo Credit: Recycled Plastic Beach Tote from Global Girlfriend site. I'd love to compile a list of stores with gifts that give back.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

In Taiwan, I noted that many more visitors and staff members were enthusiastic about taking and sharing photos than they were writing on a talkback board. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. Sometimes the difference comes down to preferred tools. Other times, the differences come down to social conventions.

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