Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? The Social Actions project began in 2006. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. There are many ways to “get social,” and so many reasons for doing so. Create on-site engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2019

He has led OneGoal since March 2007, overseeing vast programmatic expansion and guiding strategic planning efforts. Jeff graduated from the University of Michigan and earned his MA in Teaching from Dominican University. He received his MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Although the ‘double bottom line’ — profit and social value — have long been recognized, there are now new ways of looking at this question, encompassed in new terms: social, core, and monetary economies. Each of these has implications for every nonprofit, as well as the entire social sector. Volunteering.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

About the expert: Amanda Ross is the owner of BrashBerry – creative web design and growth agency for Social Good and Nonprofit organizations that builds stuff their audience will love and inspires them to take action. How to make your “Donate” button stand out on your website. Lead generation. New fundraising ideas. Share This Post!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

Once you have looked out for the safety and well being of your employees by implementing work from home, social distancing, and community hygiene, it is critical that you turn your attention to your organization’s future fiscal health. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? We just saw this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Over the past five years, I've been focusing on social media. In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 or social media was all about. In workshops, I'd play the video and have folks jot down words or themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

I’ve been participating in the #12DaysofGiving , a 12-day bonanza of giving, sharing, and promoting social good from 12/13 to 12/24. I was lucky enough to meet Leng Sopharath when I traveled to Cambodia in 2007. Each day a different blogger champions a cause. You can donate here. Each day a different blogger champions a cause.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

This honorary board of industry experts, which represents the larger spectrum of the social sector, collectively determines the annual Classy Awards Winners, and today we’re proud to announce the 2021 Leadership Council that will be hand-selecting this year’s award recipients. National University. Global CTO, Tech for Social Impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Tan , University Service Learning /. My friend is deeply committed to issues of social justice, which includes equal access to affordable health care for all. His stance raises the question: Does being committed to social change require making one less comfortable or resisting being “too comfortable?". AmeriCorps Coordinator.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

In their 2007 Action Guide, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) writes, “Inadequate infrastructure leads to inadequate organizational performance. Stanford Social Innovation Review – Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute, 1-2. Grant Makers for Effective Organizations (2007). As Sharon King, president of the F.B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Interested in games for learning and social change. It will be different for universities than smaller nonprofits. Social change is a difficult thing to assess. Assessing social change is the same conversation as assessing learning. What are the implications and ripple effects? We need metrics! Microsoft Corporation.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. Get the latest data on email open rates, social media usage, email churn, and more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we believe game-based technologies can serve as powerful tools for advancing social action, civic engagement, and health for youth. Pacific time featuring experts and stories from organizations that have found new and innovative ways to catalyze social impact through digital games. Barry Joseph, Global Kids.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. A universal service for the masses.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Channels such as social media can really help with this.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2021

University Health Care Foundation – Miracle Mile Walk. The Miracle Mile Walk supports University Hospital’s Randy W. Founded in 1980, the Pan-Mass Challenge has contributed nearly $800 million to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and since 2007, 100% of rider raised funds directly benefit cancer research and treatment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Jim Fruchterman and Marcia Adler During our party, we also honored Social Profit Network's Robert Levenson, the Skoll Foundation and the Omidyar Foundation which provided vital philanthropic funding to expand Bookshare over the last decade. Bookshare has grown tremendously from the 3,000 students that we were serving in 2007.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2007

An estimated 80,000-150,000 people from all over the world will be attending the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya January 20-25th. The World Social Forum was created by anti-globalization activists in 2001 as a balance to the World Economic Forum in Davos. World Social Forum Africa Nairobi activist

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Oh, yes, they count — in how services are performed, in how much is and can be done, and in generating social value. Volunteering is the heart and soul of the social sector. 1] Their work suggests a new way of accounting for social value. Social value is an outcome of the work of the social sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

In response to the growing needs of professional nonprofit managers, numerous university-based nonprofit management education programs have emerged, but few offer continuing education for nonprofit professionals. ► May (9) Research Friday: Social Media is all around us - H. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Among other great things, he has this amazing post about Microsoft, and their future.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

Nezhina of DePaul University and Jeffrey L. Brudney of Cleveland State University, a base for the future has been identified from this short period of history. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Case Western Reserve University, Vol. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Case Western Reserve University, Vol.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

You don't go into using a Twitter strategy without having built up a little social capital or as Tara Hunt calls " Whuffie." I also wonder about the effectiveness of fundraising on Twitter as more and more organizations or individuals start doing it? Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Along with the release of Blackbaud Enterprise CRM and Blackbaud Direct Marketing in 2007 and the recent release of Blackbaud NetCommunity Universal — all leveraging the Infinity platform — came another level of openness.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

The majority of mobile application software we use today has been “gamified,” and the same ideas are starting to enter the social sector. Yet not all organizations in the social sector have gained this knowledge, and some continue to fail when integrating gamification into their operations. Is communicating with volunteers easier?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A student of various dialogue approaches, he was an integral member of the team that developed the World Cafe dialogue process and was director of community outreach from 1997 to 2007 for The World Café Community Foundation. Ken serves on the Circle of Stewards for The Bay Area Society for Organizational Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). Alexandria University Detour 11/1/06 (frustration with the Muslim Brotherhood at his university and a call for Egyptians to demand their freedom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

to be held Friday, June 1, 2007, from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm at the Photronics Center at Boston, University. My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites. at the Making Media Now: Filmmaking in Transition Conference.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. 2007, State and regional: NewsBank. ► May (9) Research Friday: Social Media is all around us - H. Arizona Republic : A.1.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

Stanford Social Innovation Review, 11(2), 41. Natalia Winberry completed her undergraduate studies at Beloit College in 2007 and started her career in 2008 as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Phoenix, Arizona. Natalia graduated in May 2017 with a Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University. Wellens, L., &

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See3

AUGUST 1, 2007

Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment University Update – YouTube – Change the Debate in 2008 [.] 1 Aug 2007 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Sign the petition here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. One last thing.

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