Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. Community Map. Why : Why map your community? Content Map.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Meta descriptions and tagging Interns can be given assignments to clean up tagging and past content on platforms like YouTube or Pinterest which will help discoverability. Writing meta descriptions for main pages on your website is another good task that will help indexing of a website. Many eyes make for light work.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here are five tips to help your community health center’s fund accounting implementation smooth and seamless. It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial. Identify the right skills on your team.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

Here is how you can craft a road map to social media success. Here are a few examples: Increase awareness and expand your audience: success is measured by an increase in followers, but you could also track things like shares, reposts, and retweets. You’ll likely start seeing some patterns that will help you craft a more robust plan.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

When set up right, your nonprofit accounting system will help you manage your nonprofit and streamline processes like budgeting, projecting cash flow, and even hiring. We’ve tried to help small nonprofits with messed-up accounting systems raise money, and it’s extremely difficult. Plus, once you set it up and map the fields (i.e.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. I’m a big believer in documentation. Circulate the feedback broadly.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. And for good reason: I love tools that help make quality content and storytelling something that all of us can create.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. It’s important to understand both the tasks that someone needs to do on a site—for example, donate, find resources—and the mindset they are in when visiting your site. 3) Bushfire Help.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Community Mapping. >> Content Mapping. >> Presentation. YOU can do it!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

During this time, I've help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. So, I thought I'd take the time to document my recommended processes here!

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

As McKinsey’s 2024 report showed, the largest differences between organizations that lead digital transformation and those lagging behind are in an organization’s approach to strategic road mapping, adoption, and scaling. In these cases, it’s helpful to pick one isolated, low-risk area to work on first.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. Even the word “planning document” might make you stressed. Most of all your fundraising plan helps you prioritize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When staff are able to map out what the AI can do and what they can do, they get a view of their job role that they have never had before. It lessens the fear and it helps them focus on where these tools are useful and where they can become more useful, valuable to your nonprofit’s mission.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. And your friend who is a website developer won’t be able to help you. For example, BigCreekRescueGA.org or CollegeBoundVA.org. Next, you need a site map.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’ll do our best to make this as clear as possible, but some technical background is going to be helpful here. Note: The purpose of this document is to both outline new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) functionality and develop a set of M+R recommendations. A strong cup of coffee might not hurt either. Recommended events can be found here.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program. Proper documentation and tracking of moves management can impact your fundraising in many ways. Donor Database Management Essentials. Getting Started.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Coalescing every member of your organization around the same goals and expectations can help you avoid several common roadblocks before they get in the way of your implementation. Getting everyone on the same page in terms of goals and mindset will help avoid surprises later in the process. Avoiding Roadblocks.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. .

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

Advertising can be an effective way to help grow your nonprofit’ s digital footprint, complement your current organic marketing efforts, and be an essential, part of your integrated marketing strategy. Here are our top advertising tips to help your nonprofit supercharge your paid media strategy: 1.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. If a lot of sources about that topic exist, that doesn’t mean you don’t have new things to contribute, but it helps to know what’s out there. Doing a little will help a lot.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. And for good reason: I love tools that help make quality content and storytelling something that all of us can create.

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Story Tools Help Online 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. Speaking of documentation, that’s where digital tools can come in handy – for example your mobile phone camera.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

To help you out, Accelevents has mapped out eight event budgeting tips provided by expert event planners. Use these tips to help you prepare for budgeting unknowns, capitalize on your event ROI, and set your event on the right track. . Invest in an event template , that can help you get a better idea of your expenses.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This timeline offers a clear road map to prevent lapsed donors: What makes donors lapse? According to the world’s leading expert on planned giving, Dr. Russell James, data shows that 78% of Will documents that transfer dollars to charity tend to be signed by people in their 80s, 90s, and beyond. But how do we make it memorable?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals. From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. What will this consultant help accomplish?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. Think like a rocket scientist, document or journal your learnings.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

For example …. Managing donor data quality, for example, will require you to get the data out of the confines of your CRM database and into an environment where it can be analyzed, problems identified, and clean-up scripts applied. Let’s focus on donor data for this example. You need a map and a plan. Another plan?

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

One approach to documenting skill requirements could be to create a matrix of skills and roles for your organization. You could also review each job description and add essential and helpful skills. It helps to have an executive sponsor who sees the value of investing in staff technology skills and is willing to speak up for it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

If decision makers simply had a map, they could have made better decisions more quickly, more accurately, and with less complication than if they had tried to use crowdsourcing. The correlation found in Haiti is an example of a "confounding factor". Here are two other examples of confounding effects.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The presenter gave the example of a cable TV installer who goes to homes to turn on cable services. Capriza Zapps can also connect to things like barcode scanners, Google Maps, and other outside devices and services. This internal mobile app includes only tasks that are needed by the people using it. It requires no API and no coding.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, documenting your mission and vision statements is important, but in an ideal world, it’s something written on people’s hearts, as well as in their orientation handbook. For example, look at these examples of great vision statements: Tesla: To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. ” There are two repositories: an organization archives – reports, data, and documented knowledge which is more and more in electronic format and individuals’ memories (if they are still working for the organization.)

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. In the presentations section of this post you can follow how to set up a community map, content map, and basic tracking documents; and templates for all of those are in the resources section below. Templates: Community Map Template.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your site map, data structure, and server security all play an important role in how search engines index your site and assess its relevance to various search topics. It might mean serving up a blog post or news update that’s similar to one that a user previously viewed, as NRDC did in the example below.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2021

Don’t get me wrong, documenting your mission and vision statements is important, but in an ideal world, it’s something written on people’s hearts, as well as in their orientation handbook. For example, look at these examples of great vision statements: Tesla: To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

In that instance, a tech assessment would help you do so in an informed manner. For example, let’s say you’re a nonprofit with an effective CRM, online donation platform, and marketing software. For example, your team could be effectively navigating your tech and already picturing areas for improvement.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Obviously, donors want as much of their donation as possible to go to your programs, to help change lives. For example, if you hire a fundraising consultant but that consultant does not succeed in helping your organization raise more money, you will end up overspending on fundraising. And fundraising. The training.

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