Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. Harrison’s emphasis on telling his personal story when he talks about charity: water sets the tone for the organization’s marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

As you will observe from the video we’ve put together, Jacqueline uses the power of examples and personal stories to make the case for greater moral leadership and pragmatic, market-based approaches that enable people to earn their way out of poverty and improve their health.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Left photo : Gregory Munyaneza / NetSquared Rwanda / CC BY. Matloding, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Friday, October 13, 2017. spanhidden.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

Above the clattering of China plates covered with hot stuffed chicken and long grain rice were conversations rich in stories, pursuits, and initiatives around the world. 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

DECEMBER 19, 2006

One year she made each of us a sweater with a story. Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? I have a story that you have to hear.'" You tell your story." I said, "You write it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda. Share Your Stories and Change the World " is accepting submissions until February 7th. " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Video is a powerful way to tell a story and meaningfully get a message across to supporters. Optimize your content: Keeping your goal in mind, write out your ideas and think of the story you’d like to tell. September Campaign 2012 Trailer: Rwanda from charity: water on Vimeo. Share your video!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

In this alternative, the museum takes a stand on an issue (in USHMM's case, genocide), and breathes life into that side of the issue, helping visitors engage with and experience that side of the story. With something like genocide, the "side taking" is fairly soft--but museums like the soon-to-open Creation Museum may be a different story.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The visual story of the Bhopal Medical Appeal was subsequently awarded a Getty Grant for Good in 2011 after winning the 2011 Focus for Humanity NGO Assignment Fellowship. Without Masi’s powerful images and well-crafted visual essay, the story of The Bhopal Medical Appeal would not have reached the millions of people that it did.

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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. . Encourage Them To Give Their Time : Laura Hecht shared a wonderful story. What other stories, tips, or resources would you add? Spencer Brodsky.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

” so it’s not like they don’t talk about the impact of it, but they talk about it in the context of the person, “ like Emiliana, whose story always brings me to tears.” And they are telling the stories about so much suffering. And they told the story to the 400 people who gave 25 years ago.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In November 2021, we joined with our ImpactCloud partners, AWS, nonprofits like NetHope and Mercy Corps , the Pacific Disaster Center , and the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) in a crisis response scenario to a simulated earthquake in Rwanda. The challenges facing humanity in 2021 are intersectional and complex.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. It is like a dream come true. AD: It was a pretty incredible experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

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. After the class, she shared the story with her three children (above) who rallied together and made a contribution to the Sharing Foundation!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

They want to hear stories of people that look just like them. Women are more skeptical of advertising than men are because they feel like someone's trying to get one up on them, and so they want to know that real people are engaged in an organization, and that they're hearing real-life stories. That's critical with women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

Her personal story is chronicled in the memoir, Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. Literally, the safe haven for women is the only space where they can go, and learn, and share their stories. That's the story of Women for Women. Every single one of them has a story.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.” Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. Each had their own stories of horror, of lives lost, and of struggling to regain their dignity. She received the John F.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

A truly remarkably story of very every day mothers and daughters in Liberia who were just so sick of the civil war between Charles Taylor, and then the rebels in Liberia, being funded with Sierra Leone diamonds essentially, that they mobilized an entire community of women around peace. KR: Actually that is the easiest part of this job.

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