How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising View more presentations from Beth Kanter Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf.  Earlier this week, I had the pleasure to participate in the SF Foundation Center's 35th Anniversary Open House where I had an opportunity to lead a mini-workshop on best practices in social fundraising for almost a 100 people … [Read more...]

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline?    One of the changes  was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment”  on Facebook. Three new actions were announced at the time, including:  Read, Watch, Listen to  help people better understand what their friends are doing online.     Facebook called it the “Open Graph” and the pr people called "A revolution to the whole meaning of listening to music together … [Read more...]

Note from Beth: Over five years ago, I connected with Sam Mayfield, an independent media maker,  through my blog.  In 2008,  she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana.   At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college.  This was the very beginning of what we're calling crowd funding or social … [Read more...]

Global Voices: Who We Are from Global Voices on Vimeo. I've been a member of the Global Voices Community since 2004 where I first connected with Cambodian bloggers like John Weeks, Tharum, and others.  While I'm not active in the community, I continue to support this community - as a donor and a board member of  "Friends of Global Voices" for the past few years. Global Voices has been there as revolutions happened, dictatorships fell, and network effects rippled through the cities and … [Read more...]

I've been participating in the #12DaysofGiving , a 12-day bonanza of giving, sharing, and promoting social good from 12/13 to 12/24.  Each day a different blogger champions a cause.  Today is the last day and it is finally my turn!    I'm fundraising for the Sharing Foundation, that supports children and young people in Cambodia. HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE!  DONATE HERE! Why this charity?   Because my children were adopted from Cambodia and it is a way to give back. Education … [Read more...]