Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

In November 2009, Oregon was identified as one of the 10 states in most fiscal peril by the Pew Center on the States. In response to the economic crisis, during 2009 MMT expanded its grantmaking strategies to help nonprofit organizations survive the economic downturn by helping with core and general operating expenses.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In 2009, we conducted a broad financial overview of 70 domestic violence (DV) service providers, which was followed by a comparative financial analysis of 18 organizations in 2010. Between 2000 and 2008, this revenue mix provided stability and the opportunity to grow, due to gradual increases in overall government funding.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports regularly on the employment situation for people with disabilities, there is strong evidence that it has gotten disproportionately worse for workers with disabilities since 2009. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

A lot of governments are demanding that document formats be open standards, so it is important for MS to be able to get OOXML through ISO. Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard. Microsoft is in an interesting place with their cash cow, Office. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Perhaps politics has played a role and you need to develop a plan that doesn’t involve government funding. Consider hiring a consulting firm that specializes in developing strategies and training nonprofit executives. Donor or volunteer engagement and participation may be an area of improvement. Now is the time to make changes.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Silva Haratounian was working in Iran on behalf of the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), which focuses on international education, academic research, professional training and technical assistance. 19, 2009, she was sentenced to three years in jail. s government using your voice to help Silva regain her freedom.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

It makes me think a lot about how much we are governed by fear – even in the realm of things that seem only technological. And, then, of course, helping to make other people afraid – afraid that an open source project or company will fold because someone sues them. Afraid that they might indeed have infringed on patents.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2009

The promise of the knowledge economy has attracted the interest of national governments both in advanced industries and developing economies. In our work these days with non-profits and large government agencies alike, changing the culture within is often harder than any technical implementation. Lots to learn here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

Last year, the Sharing Foundation's sewing school, a vocational training program, made over 1250 uniform sets and donated them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage. I'd like to be send 520 to school or raise a total of $5,200.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. But, we have to train them! We have to train our communities to drive with us. Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Large scale citywide challenges require a collaborative solution approach and the Skills for Cities model will unite the perspectives and resources of the nonprofit, business and government sector to create sustained community change. NYC Service: NYC Corporate Service Coalition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

After all, volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofits, and with 64 Million volunteers taking the time to give back in 2009, National Volunteer Week is as much about thanking volunteers as encouraging them to come back. You'll find a host of ways to volunteer alongside existing government programs.Ê For the Smithsonian ?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Other government programs are following the lead of the INS and providing some services or information only via the Internet. Imagine providing training any-time, any-place. The most important place for you to participate is at your local government level. There is no good central list of state activities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Since we started this undertaking in 2009, weve heard each year that demand is on the rise, and that remains the expectation for 2011. After the next round of projected government funding cuts, will we continue to ask nonprofits to pick up the slack, expanding their services without a solid plan for funding the full cost of these operations?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2011

In fact, a 2009 study indicated that on average, volunteers donate 10 times more money to charity than people who don’t volunteer. Volunteers as Government Relations Resources: Volunteers may want to participate in a lobby day or lead a portion of a lobby day training for their peer activists.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

Rather than spend time telling you what they said and why it’s important – thanks to modern-day technology, you can learn directly from them on your train ride home (you are using mass transit, right!?) – I thought I’d talk a bit about what I have learned through transitions in my career. A lot of stuff about the importance of good morale.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). Through training, coaching and consulting, Kivi helps nonprofit communications professionals both learn their jobs and love their jobs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. That’s one reason I went to the Wearables DevCon Conference. Ned explained that the wearables are a hot topic now. The conference attracted 1,200 attendees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Furthermore, greater than half of nonprofit boards (52 percent) serving clientele of 25 percent to 49 percent Hispanic also do not have any Latinos board members, according to The Urban Institute study, Nonprofit Governance in the United States: Findings on Performance and Accountability from the First National Representative Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. I wonder if in 2020, whether nonprofit boards/governance will be totally transparent?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

It’s crucial to giving them the ability to make choices about their lives: when a woman has access to reproductive health care, she can make choices about her body and her future – not just about having children but also about staying in school, starting a business, or perhaps pursuing a role in local government.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

The UnRoad Trip - In summer 2009, Boaz Frankel undertook trip around the United States in 100 non-automobile forms of transportation and The UnRoad Trip was born. Along the way Boaz met with inventors, entrepreneurs and government leaders and told the story of alternative, sustainable transportation in an interesting way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

But most engineers do, and did even in the government-funded R&D world I entered in the 80’s. If you offer them something for free, whether it’s a journal or a service or a pen, they’ll take it, sure, but they’ll suspect it isn’t really any good because you aren’t charging for it.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Symantec helped found NCSA 12 years ago, and since that time has joined forces with its customers, employees, government agencies, communities, and families to protect individuals and their information through outreach, education, research, and online tools. I like CNET’s 2009 piece on “ How to Recognize Phishing Emails.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2010

It's more critical today given the endless stream of scandals in corporate and government. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. It's always been an important act of leadership to be authentic about good and bad news. Glad you are sharing this message with your readers.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

I was sharing with them that I’m typically doing, you know, four to five trainings or demos a day with nonprofits and learning about what they’re doing. It was invented or the software, the protocol, the rules of Bitcoin, which are sort of instantiated in software code were pushed out onto the network in 2009.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

I was sharing with them that I’m typically doing, you know, four to five trainings or demos a day with nonprofits and learning about what they’re doing. It was invented or the software, the protocol, the rules of Bitcoin, which are sort of instantiated in software code were pushed out onto the network in 2009. You know, until it.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As Steve said, my name is Margit Brazda Poirier, and I’m owner and founder of Grants4Good, a grant consulting company that I started in 2009. And again, Grants4Good, I started it back in 2009, so that’s been 12 years. Government grants, which include state and U.S. I feel like we’re on this high-speed train.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

And I think that they will be key to providing Government 2.0, It is my arguement that without these two things, Obama would not have been able to harness the technology in the way that he did. He might have won anyway, but I think that these two factors made it a lot easier. Fun will be had by all.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

With finances a little tight this year, I've had to reduce the number of organizations I'm donating to in 2009. She goes through an intensive training program in an educational track, that teaches her about her rights as a woman in health, economy, society, and politics, among other things. She told them the details of her rape.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Workers are not paid for training time to master a job or for transit time between gigs. If the Uber and Lyft drivers in a particular city united to develop or purchase their own ride-hailing app, and collectively governed the use of the app and the equitable distribution of resulting revenues, this would be a platform cooperative.

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