Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Can't get much more pertinent for holiday hope than the gift of human beings caring for one another!

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts. One reader suggested the Amber Chand Collection that features gifts by craftswomen who live in regions of conflict and post-conflict. holiday shopping knitting

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

We talked a lot about gift economies, storytelling, and some web2.0 The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). One of conversation threads was about how to make the story of how this network works more visible - and how a network goes about resourcing itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Over a year ago, I interviewed Carnet Williams , a long time member of the nonprofit technology and riders community and who recently launched a tool called Chipin which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

T-Shirt gift for the birthday boy or girl. ECHOage sends out an evite which allows the recipients to make an online gift of money. All of the gifts are pooled to purchase one gift, and one donation to a cause for the birthday boy or girl. Flickr photo credit: Birthday Cake 08 uploaded by Anne Norman.

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MARCH 6, 2009

Even a small financial gift can make a big difference. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Photo of Sunflower by me. This article seeks to test the non-economic hypothesis, using data from the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey. It identifies strong evidence that money giving does, in fact, influence income."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Photo from Roger Carr's Juvenile Arthritis Weekend Set You can donate here. And now I'm asking you to consider making a gift to Roger's Campaign - his goal is $1,000 and the minimum gift is $10. The image is from Roger Carr who is raising money to support the Arthritis Foundation???s Hint - the three R words.

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