1/11/10 is also National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo...

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Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing, video blogging, screencasting, social networking sites, and virtual worlds, etc) to support nonprofit.

She has worked on projects that include: training, curriculum development, research, and evaluation. She is an experienced coach to "digital immigrants" in the personal mastery of these tools.

She is a professional blogger and writes about the use of social media tools in the nonprofit sector for social change.

January 10, 2010

Somaly Mam, Cambodia woman, is an anti-slavery activist and survivor fighting for victims all over the world. I noticed her tweet tonight after Spenser Brodsky's tweet about my birthday campaign connected me to her. Human Trafficking is a huge issue around the world, especially in Cambodia. Leng Sopharath, the young woman our family has sponsored for college in Cambodia through the Sharing Foundation, could have ended up in a very different place, but instead was able to go to college. (She graduates this year!)

The Sharing Foundation works more on the prevention side of this problem, in the form of vocational training, educational programs from preschool to college, and the orphanage. You can learn more about the programs in the video below created by Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman when they traveled with Christina Arnold, Founder of Project Hope, which focuses on anti-trafficking in Southeast Asia. (You can learn more from this video that Jonny Goldstein made about her organization).

And, of course, January 11th is my birthday and I'm doing what I love helping Cambodian youngsters by raising money for the Sharing Foundation.

Make my birthday wish on Facebook come true! Donate $10 or $53 and help Cambodian children.

And don't forget to wish me happy birthday on Twitter too!

Happy birthday #beth53! Let's send Cambodian kids to school: http://bit.ly/beth53

The Sharing Foundation has raised over $24,000 on Facebook. If my birthday campaign can bring the total to $25,000 by my birthday, I'll kick in $530, $10 for each year. If my birthday campaign can bring the total to $28,000 by my birthday, I'll kick in $53 for each year or $2800.

Donors: Thank you for making a difference in the lives of Cambodian children

Cathryn Hrudicka
Stacey Beatrice Lucy Monk
Brian Reich
Elke Sisco
Dan Michel
Stephen Sherlock
Scott Henderson
William McClellan III
Chris Noble
Anne Mai Bertelsen
Anne Quinn Ulseth
Wendy Harman
Amy Sample Ward
Michael Hoffman
Farra Trompeter
Stephanie McAuliffe
Sandy Lopacki
David Krumlauf
Spencer Brodsky
Sandra Sutton Andrews
Judith Sol-Dyess
Marianne Richmond
Mark Horvath
Catrina Joy Roallos
Korey Lee
Patti Anklam
Joyce Schneider
Samathida and Monothiya Kem
Norman Reiss
Jill Frank
Ray Nichols
Katya Andresen
Amy Jussel
Emma Latham
Bill Grey
Barbara Levy
Joe Baker
Shanon Des Roches
Dian Francesca
Jay Frost
Samantha Sakemiller
James Wu
Janet Fouts
Geoff Livingston
Jay Hall
David Neff
Sean Power
Adin Miller
Shara Karasic
Thomas Kelly
Ayelet Baron
Laura Clos
Danielle Brigida
JD Lasica
Carol Cone
Roger Carr
Tim Brauhn