ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

posted by Brittany Samples Graduate Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Brittany Samples is a graduate student at ASU, who obtained a Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management in fall 2017. Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) is defined as the ? Hoboken: Wiley. Ridder, H., & & McCandless, A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Hope you’ll consider a vote for our session. Devon Smith.

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JUNE 7, 2021

Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Automate your targeted communications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. What do you think? Everyone (including them) gets better data. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Getting participants to sign up to fundraise for your organization (and providing them with basic details, sample emails, and suggestions about how to raise funds from their family and friends) is just the beginning. All of these channels can be used to announce your campaign and recruit participants. Motivate your participants to raise more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. That part looks very interesting.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. Online Giving Tops $15 Billion in 2008. billion was given in 2008 to US charities, exceeding $300 billion for the second year in a row. Giving USA estimates that $307.65

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008. Another very positive sign was that online giving in December 2009 grew 32% compared to December 2008. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. 2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 You can’t make everyone happy all of the time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. McBride, A.,

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

The study draws on survey data from a sample of 400+ California youth aged 19–22 who were surveyed after the 2008 presidential election. “Both of these outcomes are good for democracy.&#. Over 200 of them were also surveyed during their junior or senior years of high school in 2006 and 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Stacey’s been running this campaigns since 2008 that combine core human emotions – giving thanks or love. She has also built up a responsive core group of supporters. Amy Sample Ward: Can Love Change The World? Nonprofit tech and social change bloggers are supporting the campaign with these inspiring posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

It is also true that it was far from a representative sample of people here at the US Social Forum (which is way more female and of color than that group.) This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation. That speaks volumes to me.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008. Another very positive sign was that online giving in December 2009 grew 32% compared to December 2008. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2009

It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. 2008 Winners. View the list of winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Awards (selected by nearly 4,000 voters in the field).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

nfpSynergy, a leading nonprofit sector think-tank and research consultancy in the UK, “tracks a representative sample of over 1000 11-25 year olds throughout mainland Britain twice-yearly, gaining insights into their views and habits, both social and charity-related” in its Youth Engagement Monitor. The Research. What It Means.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

" Convio released a report ranking the highest online-donating cities in 2008 and 2009 year-to-date. Amy Sample Ward , who is a great resource for nptech across the pond now, gives the heads-up about an event and upcoming e-benchmarks report. Peter Campbell is kicking off a series of posts about Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. It is also helpful to have a back channel for communications with the moderator. In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video. Last year I audio-skyped into a conference in the UK to present with Steve Bridger.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

If you were at the 08NTC last April, then you probably remember the awards ceremony for the 2008 contest. If your organization made a video—any video—in 2008, we want to see it! It’s time again for the Nonprofit Video Awards from DoGooderTV , sponosored by NTEN & See3 Communications.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Sample nonprofit job descriptions: Roles and responsibilities. She graduated from Arizona State University in 2011 with a Master’s of Nonprofit Studies and from Northwestern University in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in communication. Whistle-blower protection policy. Fiesta Bowl whistle blower protection policy. Document retention.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

There are too many visionaries in the article for me to list them all here, but here's a sampling, with links to their blogs: Political digital artist and print maker, Favianna Rodriguez. Image credit: Utne Reader November/December 2008 cover image from Utnereader.com. Its feature story is "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

2008 Online Giving Trends - Connections - Want to compare your 2008 numbers/results to other organizations? It's often a hard thing to wrap our minds around because so much of social media doesn't provide straightforward numbers. Check out some great designs that could get you thinking!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. I’m trying to change that with this annual award program, highlighting the best in nonprofit taglines.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

Some of these were: Online fundraising grew in 2009 as compared to 2008 but the average gift size was smaller. Which such a small sample, it's not clear that the findings are generalizable to other organizations. The findings mirror many of benchmarks in the Convio report. Email fundraising response rates averaged at 0.13

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Let's Fondle The Tools the Right Way Chris Brogan's A Sample Social Media Toolkit describes a few sample tools and what they can be used to accomplish. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Wonder if smashups are eligible?) Her selection criteria.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

The initial phase of Train for Humanity ran for four months from September to December 2008. From Mark Hayward of Train for Humanity : After redesigning the Train for Humanity website we are now ready to launch into phase two of our humanitarian project.

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

2008 Nonprofit IT Staffing & Spending Report. Amy Sample Ward pointed to the epic Robot vs. Puppy battle , and Lin Hundt tipped us off to Kitten War. Just think of the nonprofit applications. No, really: think of them, then implement them. Proof that Roombas really work ! There have been a lot of releases over the past month.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

"The first phase of this database of nonprofit collaboration models (currently consisting of the 176 nominations deemed eligible for The Collaboration Prize in 2008) contains the information submitted by each nominator in response to specific questions about the nominated collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Tools for individuals are great, but what we’ve seen in 2008 is that the tools that individuals like the most and use the most are the ones that create the most dynamic communities. What was your favorite innovation from 2008? Community Movement. Tools like Twitter, FriendFeed and social networking.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

In 2008, OneWebDay organizers documented volunteer-driven events in 34 different cities across the world. In 2009, we’re geared for events in over 50 cities in 20 countries! OneWebDay is all about your passion for the Web and your creativity.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 7, 2009

The good news is that the proportion of nonprofits reporting decreased contributions, 52 percent, remained unchanged from our previous survey, which covered October 2008 through February 2009. So things apparently didn’t worsen dramatically for charitable organizations between March and May.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Last night I had the privileage of attending the awards ceremony for JustGiving ’s CEO Zarine Kharas who was awarded the RSA’s 2008 Albert Medal for ‘democratising fundraising and technology for charities’ During her excellent presentation, I started thinking about this new world we live in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

New Marketing Summit 2008 - Events in San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, USA & Milan, Italy. ." Forrester Wave Report: The Leaders in Community Platforms for Marketer - Community Platforms reviewed on the Forrester Research blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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