Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Research Triangle, North Carolina: How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * Wednesday, June 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Did you know that the average nonprofit saves $12,000 with TechSoup donations? Learn more about why nonprofits are choosing Office 365 , how it's saving them money, and how to successfully implement it. Not receiving TechSoup donations yet? NetSquared Organizers, Ambassadors, and Birds of a Feather. – 4:00 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

When a user surfs to a website and registers for an event, donates money, becomes a member or writes a blog, this information has become digitized. We post a question or topic to the NetSquared community and participants submit responses either on their own blogs or on the NetSquared Community Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Like every nonprofit, we wanted that prize money, but this was a bigger opportunity. 7 Social Media experiments we tried with the 99% Power Coalition | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Joe Solomon does a great job sharing the tools, tactics, and mini-campaigns used in the recent 99% Power Campaign.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

How To Raise More Money With Email: A Step-by-Step Guide to Increasing Opens, Clicks, and Donations CharityHowTo / Webinar / Fee: $69. How To Raise More Money With Email A Step-by-Step Guide to Increasing Opens, Clicks and Donations CharityHowTo / Webinar / Fee: $77. July 14 — 3 p.m. July 14 — 3p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. Million in donations for charities this past winter. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

SFS doesn't accept donations and doesn't apply for grants. Volunteers teach free classes in rooms donated by other local organizations. Founder Jessica Dally came down from Seattle to give a talk called Run Free: How to Transform Your Community Without Money.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. – to raise money for your cause. Kickstarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

In Mexico, donated and branded by Movistar). The money is in sponsorship from companies that want to be favorably exposed in one fell swoop to a critical mass of the best and brightest of the young technoid class. Every Campusero gets to hook up to the mother of all servers for a week. Like Burning Man , people camp. billion to date.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Kickstarter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Her birthday wish is to raise money for the Sharing Foundation using Causes and we think we could help her crush her goal of sending 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. As you probably know, Monday is Beth Kanter’s birthday. Some people posted on their own blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I just donated a small amount to his effort! So is Dr. Mani who will be using social media to raise money for heart surgeries for poor children in India. The meme isn't necessarily limited to individuals as David Neff at Fispace mentions - corporate bloggers like Tyson Foods will donate 100 pounds of food for every comment made here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

" And every year since she became a grandmother to an adopted Cambodian child, I said, "Make a donation to the Sharing Foundation." A fter I posted my birthday invitation to donate to the Sharing Foundation , I also told my friends on Twitter that my birthday was Friday. So, thank you to those who donated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. When I wrote about video blogging and nonprofits way back in September, I discovered the Have Money Will Vlog (see their video here ), and it's an excellent example of what Peter Dietz calls micro-philthranthropy. I did a campaign video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Lucy Bernholz reports that embedded giving - in which a charitable transaction becomes part of any other financial transaction, such as checking out of the grocery store and making a donation to diabetes care - has gone web 2.0 " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Sign up for TechSoup's email newsletters and discover great resources, ideas, and donated technology for nonprofits and public libraries. A View of the Cloud from the NetSquared Community Even among technologically inclined people, there's sometimes a reluctance to move to the cloud. Mark your calendar!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The speakers also discussed how some players of the popular Diablo 3 game are donating the "gold" earned in the game to charities in Africa. In a conventional game, like Monopoly for example, players earn money for themselves. In ProperLORDty, banks may end up taking away all the players’ money.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Once you've got some ideas about the kinds of tools that you think might help you reach your goals, ask yourself, how much time, money, and in-house staff expertise do we have to learn how to use these tools, set them up, and maintain them? When will you decide whether or not to continue putting time, money and energy into using a tool?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there is a schwag recycling room , I participate. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning. I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there. What's a conference without schwag ? But Socap 09 has taken the concept of socially conscious schwag to new heights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! (There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Definitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Definitely.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Definitely.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Share the story behind your brand Whether you are a large, established organization, or a small grassroots project, you are constantly asking your supporters to trust that you will use their money and time to do good. One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog. allow comments.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Shachar Kariv, whose full bio is at the end of this post. Say "no" to money. Believe it or not, sometimes saying "no" to money, helps the money pour in. They can't buy half a CT machine, and they won't redirect the money raised into another cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. I've been flabbergasted by the generous donations from colleagues of their money, their advice, and links. What do I need to think about? Is that possible?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. One suggestion is vikono.org, Swahili plural for insect antennae.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. When a service goes down, users will complain. Causes Raised $2.5 And if you???re

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Using Uber's platform, people can have their clothing picked up on demand and donated during a winter clothing drive. To not put too fine a point on it, it will make mobile donating happen. We'll see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

Deborah Elizabeth Finn At a time when money is tight, it's especially important to ensure that surplus assets, capacities, and resources do not go unused. Is there a hardware store within a five mile radius that will donate wheelbarrows and seeds to community gardens? Will we need any permits from the city?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Like Mother Teresa talked about how America was rich in money, but poor in spirit. The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. We don't use that much wood.

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