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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The site was established in 2004 on the 10th Anniversary of the genocide in partnership with the Rwanda Government, Kigali City Council, and Aegis Trust, a charity in the UK dedicated to the prediction, prevention, and ultimately elimination of genocide. You can find her story on the Generation Rwanda site).

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6 Tips for Writing A Winning Crowdfunding Story

The Modern Nonprofit

Do you help feed thousands of people in Rwanda? Or a video testimony from someone your organization has recently helped? This guide will help you write a winning nonprofit crowdfunding story that’ll help you raise enough funds for your organization. What problem will you solve? What impact will you have?

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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. You can also use storify to curate tweets, photos, videos, resources, and links during the event. 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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Video Making for Nonprofits

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Video Making for Nonprofits. Video is a powerful way to tell a story and meaningfully get a message across to supporters. Making a video can take a lot of time and effort, so it’s important to do it right! Read on for some tips on how to structure your video-making strategy.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. Our scope and sequence documents lay out the appropriate learning objectives and associated lesson plans, activities, videos, and more to teach skills that are developmentally appropriate. Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

Have Fun - Do Good

Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. For more information, and to watch Kristof's video invitation to apply, go to his post, Win a Trip! You must be 18 or older to apply, and can submit an essay or video. The student reporter will blog and vlog for nytimes.com.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. In fact, Harrison has said that if he talks for an hour, he uses over 200 photos and videos in his presentation.

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