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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. The next step was for participants to draw another circle draw another big circle with pictures representing how the world might change for the positive.

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6 Tips for Writing A Winning Crowdfunding Story

The Modern Nonprofit

Do you help feed thousands of people in Rwanda? Do you have before and after pictures you can share? This guide will help you write a winning nonprofit crowdfunding story that’ll help you raise enough funds for your organization. What problem will you solve? Or perhaps your organization saves exotic animals from becoming extinct.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Some big picture thinking: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, offered her big picture lens. ” We need to better understand how we behave and what we expect in digital, connected age.” Digital media’s potential for building harmonious civil society is considerable.”

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. charity: water is excellent at using social proof to encourage people to fundraise on their online platform.

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 A List of Examples.

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[VIDEO] The Science of Philanthropic Psychology

Bloomerang

Whenever we talk about people love people, we like to put ourselves out of the picture. I mean, if you don’t know her, go to sign up for VidaJoven DeMexico, her orphanage and just read her newsletters, and read her e-mails, and read her website, and look at her pictures. We send each other pictures. I just love her.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. We have come a long way! Anyone with a desire to enact change, empower women and girls, and help battle oppression is invited to share their voice and join us.