Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

Since students who participate in Akilah’s Leadership Program are required to do a social change project and participants are on a professional career path, I did a workshop about using social media to support social change projects and how to use it as a professional networking tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. Depending on your event and topics, you may want to project the tweets on a “TwitterWall.” Some nonprofits are experimenting with a group of tools called “Amplifiers” that allow you sign up your fans and friends to tweet all together at the start of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. Photo by WhiteAfrican. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

I met Spencer Brodsky last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda. So, being able do some real time network weaving while the birthday campaign was unfolding was highly satsifying. He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group/Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Kigali, Rwanda: Storytelling Event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

Your mom will receive a a handmade card made by a woman in their program in Rwanda. One of GlobalGiving's "Mom Knows Best" projects like Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso or Fast Tracking Education for Women and Older Girls in Afghanistan. * Women for Women International to support women survivors of war.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Left photo : Gregory Munyaneza / NetSquared Rwanda / CC BY. Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Paris, France: Analytics — Initiation.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. There's still time to submit your nomination before October 31, 2011 for this year's Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public interest.

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MAY 20, 2009

Maybe it is not about how many NGOs or how many projects are in one country, it is about the quality of those projects and their mission. It is a known fact that over half of international aid never makes it to the actual people in need (only 20 percent of aid ever reached Rwanda during its recent genocide).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

April 6 Host a fundraiser house party for your favorite human rights organization with a viewing of Hotel Rwanda in memory of the Rwandan genocide's anniversary. The week provides a number of ways for you to do what you can. April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. What can you do?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

In addition to stories about how each project was created, Christiansen includes knitting patterns related to the organizations' work like the ChemoCaps Eyelet Hat, Peace for Fleece Classic Wool Socks and Afghan for Afghans Child's Vest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What started out as a personal art project has grown into a global community project that has created over 800 handmade cards carrying voices to and from the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Costa Rica, Niger, Namibia, America, Haiti and Afghanistan. What else would you like Have Fun, Do Good's readers know about Traveling Postcards?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." Today I Cried blog announces that he will quit his job ! Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . You can give them money to spend at Network for Good (which has every charity based in the US) or Global Giving (which has a bunch of international projects). Spencer Brodsky.

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APRIL 25, 2008

BB: I read in one of your bios that you received a Fulbright grant to go to Rwanda and study the reconciliation process. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

At SFAI, Christy wrote her MA Thesis on Alfredo Jaar's The Rwanda Project, looking specifically at the impact of photographic representations of Africa in the American media. Christy helped found the San Francisco-based digital photography publication, Once Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. For example, I noticed that Spencer Brodsky , who I helped last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda, re-tweeting the birthday call to action. You reflect in real-time, observe, tweak and adjust.

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APRIL 3, 2009

According to the Genocide Prevention Month's site , the genocide in Bosnia began April 6, in Rwanda April 7, in Cambodia April 17, in Darfur April 19, in Armenia April 24, and the Holocast began April 21st.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

I learn about women in Rwanda, and they learn about my life. The Innocence Project , again, very different, not an online organization at all. As a supporter of the Innocence Project, that makes me feel part of something bigger. We write letters back and forth to one another. We build deep connections. Kiva's a great example.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. government intervene, say in Rwanda, or in genocides of the past?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero. But those projects are just the most public face of our portfolio that includes print, web and strategy materials for the planet's most influential non-profits, political campaigns and socially responsible businesses."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. I just came from Congo and met with her, and a lot of other women in Congo and Rwanda and I am constantly amazed. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life. That's the story of Women for Women. Every single one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ewaso Lions is a focused conservation research project in Samburu, Kenya that is working to conserve Kenya’s lions while improving livelihoods of local people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Florida. The result was empowering. “Going public with bad news has given us a.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

The next big project on the horizon is working on AIUSA’s next strategic plan. This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? Describe the work you do with Never Again and maybe a bit about the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Is that why we're seeing so many charity online stores like the one from Campus Kitchens Project and Amnesty International. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here. That also means good news for the shopping for charity programs.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

Sponsors give $27/month to fund a survivor's basic needs, as well as seed money to start income generating projects. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

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