Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review and this is a special post because it’s actually a book review. Hildy Gottlieb, a colleague (but really growing into a friend) sent me a copy of her new book, The Pollyanna Principles. I read it on the plane to and from N2Y4 (11 hours from London to San Francisco!)

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

And we have used Adobe Acrobat to create fillable forms for sponsorships, parade entries, [and] grant and scholarship applications. Our Silver Prize — a free one-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud — goes to Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco, California. Thank you TechSoup!"

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

Over the years it has provided more than $1 billion in grants to over 3,000 California nonprofits. Jeff Brandenburg: My role at the Irvine Foundation is Director of Technology for our offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. driven grants management. He and his two IT colleagues support 43 staff in two offices.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! used social media to promote voting competitions to help people win grants for playgrounds. Casey Golden, CEO, Small Act.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome , a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to. Windy founded D.V.A. His forthcoming.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. San Francisco Ballet. Oversees Millennium Challenge Corporation’s signature grant investment vehicle to reduce poverty through economic growth.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Windy founded D.V.A. Windy currently serves on the Advisory Board for Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM). David Evan Harris - Global Lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Just owning an independent bookstore is creating a positive force for good, in my book (no pun intended). Create a "Buy Local" holiday shopping weekend with fellow vendors like the San Francisco Small Business Commission's Shop Local First campaign. Here are a few ideas for your husband's new business venture: • Be green.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2008

Morrie Warshawski , author of Shaking the Money Tree: How to Get Grants for Film and Video, recently sent me a copy of the 2nd edition of his book, The Fundraising Houseparty. It also has an order form in the back of the book with bulk purchase rates (25+ copies for $15.95 Have you ever hosted a house party?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. Netflix for E-books. There are two new e-book subscription services. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. All Things D.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

He has 500 professional how-to and reference books in his office. Ahern was surprised that basic skills he took for granted as a sales copywriter – like the deft use of emotional triggers to prompt action, for instance; or reverence for the customer – were often missing in the donor communications he saw. Dan Pallotta. DanPallotta.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

" Your nonprofit’s website is the first interaction that many people in the community, including constituents, donors, and grant makers, have with your organization. One book you might find helpful is Nonprofit Management 101 : a good beginner’s guide to every facet of running a new nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant suggest that “[a]n organization… has to walk a tightrope of building the skills necessary to engage in advocacy, while continuing to provide services (or vice versa).”[1] San Francisco, California, United States: Jossey-Bass. [3] New York City, New York, United States: Longman Books.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? How do you appropriately implement them? And how do you check results? Fundraising Events.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2011

gave us a grant to build new shelves to hold our inventory, but - all. in San Francisco. In his book, Blessed Unrest, Paul. Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec are just a few. of the companies that have since joined the donation program. Overnight, we had a good-sized fulfillment program on our hands. Microsoft even.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Lean Start Up is is taking hold in huge corporations like GE and into the nonprofit sector, in hospitals, schools, and social good entrepreneurs. The latter is exemplified by the work of “ Lean Impact ” which is hosting a conference in San Francisco in 2014. Books Lean Impact' I think it’s wrong.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Joining us from beautiful San Francisco, Dr. Renee Rubin Ross. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. La Cocina is a San Francisco based nonprofit. You doing okay?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Register today to save your spot in San Francisco. Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests, DemocracyInAction is offering five grants to nonprofits that best demonstrate their ability to organize. To apply, share how your organization is able to effectively organize by Tuesday, November 15th. Anything we missed?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development. Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America.

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