Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2011

When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. Enter the Ambassador Project. Developed by the community for the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I started GuideStar India as a project of GiveIndia, as there was no single reliable and comprehensive database of non-profits in India. We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. I’m well acquainted with the big digital inclusion projects in the U.S. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources. He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It bears mentioning that the executive summary of our findings (in several languages) and full report (in English) are available at no cost to everyone. We got respondents in 88 countries and the project was done in collaboration with 36 partners around the world. to conduct our survey in 21 languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It was the first speaking engagement that I was able to scale delivery of my interactive keynote to 1,000 people in fixed seating and in two languages using a translator. Their meeting featured a special conversation via Skype with girls in South Africa as part of the Girl Up Campaign’s emphasis on uniting girls around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Right now his biggest project is at home – caring for his newborn baby.

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