Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Here are the details: @BrandsConf is a new event taking place in early December 2010 that will explore the “Humanization of Brands” and the underlying effects this is having on business. Personal profiles, direct communication, authentic conversations. Date: December 2, 2010. Read more.]. The Changing Face of Nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My friend, Mazarine Treyz , is an accomplished woman: She is passionate about life and supporting nonprofit organizations. After I graduated from college, I thought about all of the conversations I heard back at home, about how there was just nothing you could do to stop injustices. That you just had to let things go.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. Let’s take Salesforce, for example. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data. However, many nonprofits operate with tight budgets.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

Campaigning can mean many different things and we want to keep the definition of the topic fairly open for this chat, in order to keep insights, resources and conversation in the Q/A format as open to valuable input as possible. Jump in to the conversation by adding #4Change to your Twitter message. Date : January, 14th 2010.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 16, 2021

Carving out your own career path is easier when you have an example to follow. He became the youngest and first openly gay executive director of the Asian Pacifical American Labor Alliance in 2010. To find a mentor, look within your organization. And it’s true! In the nonprofit sector, we can look to 24-year-old Gregory Cendana.

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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? Of course you do.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are four things it’s done that serve as examples for any traditional company, including advertising agencies."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 17th).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The YMCA of Metro Chicago faced just this challenge in the summer of 2010.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2010

When fear of technology makes us hesitate, or holds us back altogether, the conversations about social change continue on without us--without the benefit of our experiences, values, and knowledge. Sen urges potential organizers to have a frank conversation with their community--and themselves--about what level of risk they're willing to take.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years. There are so many examples we could include.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 6, 2017

The chart below summarizes data compiled from 242 nonprofit organizations that had requested BoardAssist’s counsel in selectively adding to their boards and were actively engaged in the search process on January 1, 2017. The good news is that many terrific, relatively affordable board openings exist. Conclusions.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

While your nonprofit is, by definition, not a profit-driven organization, you can still leverage this massive market to achieve your fundraising goals and grow your support base. Your organization will need to tap into its. Look for a company that can be a true partner to your organization. almost 19% of America’s GDP.

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Care2

DECEMBER 29, 2014

They are being bombarded with fundraising appeals from multiple organizations. This can leave organizations with higher than usual unsubscribe rates. For example, you can ask their opinion on new programs you are considering launching. In 2010 nonprofits heavily invested in Facebook. Review Your Online Strategy.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

” These are great questions that I had an opportunity to address at the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) [link] yesterday along with Colin Delany, Gloria Pan and Shireen Mitchell. For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1 By 2010, the NYT circulation went down to 950,000 papers in circulation.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Do you have a branded online community for your organization or project? " What do you think? It features concept de?nitions

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Examples from Haiti. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

So how can we put the interest in video to work for our organizations, specifically your year-end fundraising? The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 12th).

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2010

To mark their first decade, this year, WOC organizers decided to pay special attention to the issue of diversity in their ranks. This human rights movement served as the focal point for our conversations about organizing strategy, bridging online and grassroots campaigning, and being more open about our failures.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. They are staff of your organization, and you lead them.) Read Fierce Conversations. Book group, conversation, whatever. And here are a few suggestions from commenters.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The chart below summarizes data compiled from 282 nonprofit organizations that had requested BoardAssist’s counsel in selectively adding to their boards and were actively engaged in the search process on January 1, 2018. The good news is that many terrific, relatively affordable board openings exist. Conclusions.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The chart below summarizes data compiled from 220 nonprofit organizations that had requested BoardAssist’s counsel in selectively adding to their boards and were actively engaged in the search process on January 1, 2016. The good news is that many terrific, relatively affordable board openings exist. Conclusions.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Read the post and join the conversation on the Frogloop blog (or read the post below). —– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. Here are a few ways to do this, for example: Respond to questions and comments publicly whenever possible.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You've got a mere few hours left, DC-area nonprofits, to apply for a $10,000 service grant from Fenton Communications to help your organization develop a stronger and more effective social media strategy in 2010. In addition, the guide gives some great examples of strategies that have worked for real organizations and campaigns.

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Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

The 2010 PDF (Personal Democracy Forum) was the place to be for nonprofit and political campaigners last week in NYC. Tags: Conferences Nonprofit Events Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Organizing Social Networking Trends. Couldn’t attend the conference or all the sessions you wanted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

6: Social Media Can and Should be Measured: This principle is about incorporating the discipline of measurement into your approach and to go beyond just measuring “coverage&# but also measure conversation and communities. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Ways to plug in Intrigued?

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Givinga

MARCH 19, 2019

As recently as 2010, a Fast Company journalist posited that it’s impossible to prove whether CSR helps or not 1. This is doubly true now, when digital platforms like Facebook are nixing organic reach 2 : a previously important marketing tool that was effective for SMBs with small budgets. The answer isn’t immediately clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. Did get one party hosted by Carwoo and organized by Renee Blodgett who I met a BlogHer in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples. For example, you can in a couple clicks go onto a site like Slideshare and see ideas on a topic from some of the best thinkers on that topic and recreate your own meaning of it. That technology, in and of itself, can solve the ills of the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth. So where to begin?

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