Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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APRIL 30, 2012

Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college. They’re a great example of an NGO that really knows their IT. Want to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas. Saint Anthony's Education Centre empowers underserved students with education and job training. Art and Media. Environment. About SANGONet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When I ask an NGO “who are you trying to engage with?”, Just distill the message you want to test down to a Facebook ad, and then run that ad against various groups: married women over 40, students living in Washington and Oregon, Canadian kayakers and so forth. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. This is an NGO that is relies heavily on good communication and effective project management. The school has about 300 students who attend classes in a one-room building that ordinarily accommodates 30 children. All of them happen to use Microsoft Office to good advantage.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. Tharum was disappointed too.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Years later, in collaboration with a colleague, she launched her second initiative, an after-school program in New York City to help under-served high school students with career planning and workplace readiness. UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating. The idea is to bring together students, professional Bloggers, writers, NGO workers, media, and tech gurus from within and outside Cambodia to share and learn more from each other on about how the ICT (including Open Source Software and Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. " Steve Bridger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

The Sharing Foundation is always looking for new summer cloths to send over there, so I asked Jay for the t-shirts to give to the college students sponsored by the Sharing Foundation. The t-shirts were delivered to the students in May - here's a blog post about it. And, of course, there are many pressing projects and needs.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Or maybe your nonprofit is actually an NGO based in another country. Do you have volunteer tutors who can help students who are homeless with their work? For instance, how many of the students you tutor graduate high school? In this section, talk about whether you have employees or are all-volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. Disclosure: I'm on the board of the Sharing Foundation and our NGO was nominated. These are requests for items such as diapers, baby formula, medical supplies , or other necessities from individuals in the developing world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania. It also has events with a goal of being a news agency for NGOS.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

women became the majority of law students. International NGO Leadership. Women's participation in parliaments worldwide rose to 23 percent in 2016. By 2011, American women surpassed men in gaining college degrees , including advanced degrees. Last year, U.S. Shortfalls. Nonprofit Technology Leadership. Law and Advocacy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college. They’re a great example of an NGO that really knows their IT. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. What happens if you don't like the way the personal fundraiser has represented your NGO? What do you do?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. Check out the annual report template!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She sent me the names of four women from Up with People with descriptions of their work and why she thought they were Solutionary Women. before coming to Up with People. While in D.C.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students. It's really neat because the students work on one autobiographical story for two weeks, and at the end they have one complete story that they can call their very own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Michaela is now working as the Online Manager for a nonprofit focused on International Student programs , called World Learning and had attended SXSW where she felt that there needed to be more nonprofit panels. I had dreams of designing the websites for Disney and hoped to score a big corporate job after graduation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Students, monks, and ordinary people can be key players in further disseminating information to their villages.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Why do Imagine Cup students develop more field-based IT innovation in 9 months than nonprofits in 5 years? Edward offered a few more tips when thinking about IT Strategy: IT Strategy at an NGO is about capacity building and moving the agenda up the strategy pyramid to mission-moving applications. Why are we running our own help desks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Here's what Lux wrote about the Angkun: angkunh: as we approached the closing of the summit, one beautiful student asked ???why Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. why do you give all of us the angkunh??? a great answer from john: ???because angkunh is a kind of seed.???

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunity many of Cloud for Good’s education clients and their students had in being able to return to campuses nationwide for academics, collegiate athletics, and extracurricular activities. Dave Sicoli – Managing Director, Education Industry.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. InterAction Forum 2019 will feature the world's most influential and inspiring organizations, change makers, and executives from the public, private and NGO sectors. Feb 21 - 24. Oct 10 - 13.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. They also began a strategy of linking these financial investments with other resources. Seven Billion Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

s democracy - it was just about showing the beauty of her country, sharing her experiences in school, and learning from her peers and fellow students. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI) DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The fund is listed on AngelList: Free Ukraine Foundation This NGO was created by Ukrainian and Belgian tech founders EASE Work The European Association of Software Engineering has launched a service for helping Ukrainian tech people get jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. . ”FB can be a catalyst and lever to tackle wicked problems.” ” In these three ways. Boundless communities. Momentum without limits. Empower participants and constituents.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Describe the work you do with Never Again and maybe a bit about the project. What do you enjoy the most about your work with Amnesty International and Never Again?

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