Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2011

It is a major day of global celebration of women. Tom Watson has written about a remarkable woman in Cambodia, Mu Sochu. I’d like to introduce you to Keo Savon, an orphan from Cambodia from the same orphanage as our daughter. My family is sponsoring her college education through the work of the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I talked up Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge while I was getting a haircut and other patrons were interested, even touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. Nhuong has contributed and both he and his girlfriend are fundraising on behalf of the Sharing Foundation. He made a donation to the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

I took it during my last trip to Cambodia, almost three years ago. We also have a presence at Global Giving which has recently launched a new look for its site. I love that photo. Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. Their parents are working on our farm project. A sort of Headstart program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Ever since, I’ve continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia. I’ll be raising money for the Sharing Foundation to contribute to Keo Savon’s college education. Claire from Twitter kicks it off today with a post about giving to Hope Runs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2007

She earns a monthly wage working for the Sharing Foundation 's Sewing Project, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or a better paying job in Cambodia???s Donate $10 or more to our cause through Global Giving now !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Those are some kids from the Sharing Foundation's Roteang Orphanage, opened in 2000. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He's an editor at Global Voices and his personal blog, Better Days , where I first learned about RSS readers and how to use bloglines. Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. That's why I'm asking for my friends on Facebook to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He's a supporter (in spirit) of the Sharing Foundation's work - they don't use credit cards in Cambodia and so can't use the Global Giving page ). Flickr Photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

For Mon Channy,10, The Sharing Foundation???s Both Bora and Nhuong, young people from Cambodia, who are donors to Sharing Foundation, know this story all too well: As Bora says, "I don't know what I can do as a single Cambodian citizen to help next generation of my country. Mon Chany's Story. theasianeconomist.com/?p=6.

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MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Jakarta, Indonesia-based ASEAN Foundation was launched in 1997 by leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. Push yourself to really test the limits of your beliefs when thinking about our individual roles in extending literacy globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

The impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of people globally every day, particularly in countries like Cambodia. The Sharing Foundation 's HIV initiative is the Owens House for HIV infected women who are about to deliver their infants in Phnom Penh. Published by Global Voices bloggers on World Aids Day 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2007

Location: Cambodia | Need: $18,700. The Sharing Foundation is honored to be one of the projects over at Global Giving ! This project will immunize 570 children in a small Cambodian village against Hepatitis B, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, all potentially fatal and preventable diseases. Theme: Health |.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge. Not the Sharing Foundation's web site ). Nhuong Son is in college, a Cambodian American, who believes in the importance of the Sharing Foundation's mission from first hand experience. And of course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I don't want to you annoy you dear readers, but I can't pass up an opportunity to raise some money for the Sharing Foundation to help care for children in Cambodia. The Sharing Foundation offers many programs in addition to the college sponsorship program you've read about on this blog and I want to share some of those stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. This “relationship building&# conversation is the foundation of forming stronger ties. Weak Tie/Strong Tie Ice Breaker. I’m now an advisor ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. awesome person, mother to adopted children from Cambodia and board member for her org, The Sharing Foundation ???could t been able to shake the urgency in Beth Kanter ???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

" And every year since she became a grandmother to an adopted Cambodian child, I said, "Make a donation to the Sharing Foundation." No, I asked them to contribute $10 to the Sharing Foundation (and they did) I guess you're wondering why my mom asked about the outhouse? Now Beng Krom???s family latrine??? shown above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. to a wonderful fundraiser involving our beloved : THE SHARING FOUNDATION. NpMarketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

She approached after I got the nerve to share my experience covering the Cambodian Blogosphere in the When Globalization is Good for Women panel moderated by Nancy White. (It " Michele lived in Cambodia and taught journalism to Cambodian journalists for the Independent Journalism Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

I am not sure if everyone is following the ups and downs of Beth Kanter's online fundraising for the Sharing Foundation in America's Giving Challenge. If anyone has been holding off on donating to the Sharing Foundation Campaign don't wait any longer. They have a good chance of securing 50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. " Be A Role Model of Generosity. or someone else???s 25 to spend on charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. Then I noticed that Andrew Parker had just tweeted it. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. Corporate Social Responsibility Practitioners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

AND, Leng Sopharath is only one of 16 college students the Sharing Foundation is supporting. In addition, the Sharing Foundation is sponsoring 40 high school students and provides an English program in the Roteang Village School for over 500 kids. Keun Fast , another Cambodian blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach. Foundation's Gifts of Hope have been created to initiate a revolution in giving ??? Check out their MySpace page. FreeGeek in Portland solves two problems. Can't decide?

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JANUARY 28, 2005

Tony Blair's talk (on Africa and global warming) had a quote that I think explains why: "it is based on enlightened self-interest". The Schwab Foundation has done an incredible job of bringing the world's top social entrepreneurs together here in Davos. Each of these topics received votes from the majority of the attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. to support the Sharing Foundation. Why? Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Ending Global Slavery is part of an Ashoka initiative Changemakers.net. There are 15 projects in the competition, all with a mission of ending traffiking and slavery, including an entrant from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. The Case Foundation blog also has a section called " Tech4Good " TechSoup blog posts about an online tool and forum discussion about green policies. Global NpTech. Wanna check out more tech tools? What's Hiafux ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

She earns a monthly wage working for the sewing school and shop, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage. Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia. Chheng Srey Mom, 16, has completed grade 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! Sharing Foundation Video by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson. Sharing Foundation Calendar Project. As Wanna Finishes His Thesis, He Supports The Sharing Foundation from Vietnam with Love.

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