Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. It's called Why Congo Matters. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Take your pick! You can even add a good deed widget for your site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. It had been bombed.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

In 2006, the Aquarium sponsored a letter-writing campaign in the museum, giving visitors an opportunity to send postcards to the governor expressing support for the establishment of marine protected areas on California's central coast. If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Or by pursuing religious education?

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Model Action Congo Museum 26

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

This week, Free Rice , a very casual game that can allow you to use your erudite mastery of the English language to provide rice to hungry people via the United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP). Here's how it works: define a word properly, and the site's sponsors will donate the equivalent of ten grains of rice to the UN WFP.

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Game Congo Hunger Museum 20

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 18, 2010

Patrick Ball, Benetech's Chief Scientist and Vice President of our Human Rights Program, is spending much of this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Patrick is working with a UN human rights project. According to news reports Chebeya was found dead in his car early the next morning.

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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. The show ended, and I immediately signed up to be a Women for Women International sponsor. women war nonprofit survivor

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Support Congo Herzegovina Bosnia 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that. I think that is what really motivates me to do this work.

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