Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

—– If you’ve been on facebook at all in December this year, you may have seen something happening to all your friends – their pictures changing to their favorite cartoon characters! Sure, it’s slacktivism but what the hey… it was fun.&#. Do we need slacktivism to justify fun behavior online?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

Not a fun place to be. Volunteer appreciation Here’s a sample startup budget for a new nonprofit: Tips As you put your budget together, here are some tips that can help you. That way, it cancels out, but still shows the impact those donated goods or services have on your financial picture. Now, hope is not a bad thing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 26, 2010

I had a bit of fun with it, especially with the pictures on the slides, by using a party metaphor: Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own Party! View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Earlier this month, I had the great pleasure and honor to lead a webinar with Lori Jacobwith ’s community.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Volunteers who are excited about their work will invite friends and family to join them in the fun, magically growing your volunteer base. Craft stores are full of stickers, decals, paper punches, and other fun items to create little masterpieces. Yard signs are so much fun and very effective at driving the point home.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

If you’re raising money to purchase a vehicle, show a picture of the one you want. Make Your Online Fundraising Campaign FUN! When you’re running an online fundraising campaign, try to keep it engaging and fun. Just remember to keep it organized, make it easy to give, and have FUN with it! A link to donate!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Given it''s popularity last year, we''ve added one extra day of this event, where five people each day will take part in this fast-paced, fun, and thought provoking event. Just ask David Krumlauf (pictured right) with NTEN''s CEO Amy Sample Ward at 14NTC- #ntenthanks to you for being the first 15NTC registrant (for the upteenth time in a row!)

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had a very fun time presenting with my friend and colleague Debra Askanase at the 2 011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Avoid stretching images if they live next to content; you don’t want to end up with a skewed or blurry picture. You don’t need to go all-out creating a design system with code samples—even a living document with screenshots and a few notes on how each pattern is used would help. In practice: 1) AMA Foundation.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Set up tasting tables with glasses and laminated A/B/C cards (they will get wet) for people to try to match the samples to the bottle. Have your supporters send pictures of their causey ink. Parents’ Night Out.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Add a guide to share sample Facebook and Twitter messages, along with easily downloadable pictures, giving day logos, and other artifacts for them to use for their social media posts. Make it fun. No matter how your organization needs to flex and accommodate your student body and generous alumni, keep fun on the forefront.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I had a lot of fun and hope it was useful for everyone. Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. Presentation. Do-It-Yourself.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Now is the time to take a good look at your plans for the final months of the year and find a fun, unique fall fundraiser that will make you and your donors feel comfortable and supported. For fall, offer picture options that include themed-subject matter like pumpkins or the changing of the leaves. Autumn Paint & Sip Night.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It might include an emoji, fun wordplay, or a question. Here’s what this email should include: A thank you message An update on what you’ve been doing Pictures or graphics to tell your story. Sample Campaign Plan. Simply thank your donors. Let them know you’re thinking of them. 21: Thank you email with Thanksgiving theme.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

When you create your fundraising plan based on your strengths and your organization’s assets, you’ll find fundraising easier and more fun. Make it a FUN event that people talk about for days afterward. Include Board members in big-picture discussions, but not in the details, unless they plan to help in a volunteer capacity.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. This next part is where it gets fun. Case Studies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. You can also send fun cards using Felt. Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Make it Fun! Hold fun, internal gatherings to celebrate victories : specified number of notes written, donations received, etc. Tip: If a good number of physicians were recognized with gifts, load their pictures on the posts and the hospital/foundation website as a thank you to all who honored them. Don’t forget all approvals!

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

An organization that started a drive-through hot chocolate and cookies fundraiser during the pandemic turned it into a fun in-person event, and it sold out! If you have a big-picture plan but no idea how you will get the work done, well, congratulations, you have taken the first step. Don’t be afraid to try something new.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Super duper nonprofit tech blogger Amy Sample Ward has tagged me in a new meme started by Mindapples: What's Your 5-A-Day? If you connect with me on Facebook (let me know you are a Have Fun * Do Good reader), you can see my reading lists on GoodReads and Visual Bookshelf. Life is more fun when he's around. My 5-A-Day : 1.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Each toolkit included : a) Directions on how to run the photo booth b) Suggested tweets c) Signage to maintain Camp Kesem branding and d) A sample press release and media alert. Using the hashtag #bigkidsgive, they built social buzz around the fun camp experience given to children affected by a parent’s cancer.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I really like so many aspects of this campaign that instead of simply changing my profile picture or tweeting about the campaign, I wanted to take a closer look, share with you some of the elements that are making it a great campaign, and some suggestions for ways it can be improved.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I also have a ton of experiential proof that joining people together offline, at the same time – whether it’s for an fun event, a conference, or anything else – can dramatically increase the uptake in online community engagement and the permanence of that network. We need them both.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Asking supporters to take an apple to their teacher may sound like a fun call to action – it engages students and parents in any grade level, is a simple and straightforward ask, and has teachers at the center. Maybe you want to run a campaign for awareness around one of your proposals and want to showcase teachers in the process.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

When it comes to social change and community impact work, who gets the credit for projects or successes is sadly still part of the picture. —– Thanks again to Allyson Kapin and the Frogloop blog for providing this fun opportunity to guest post ! This is a response that always goes straight to my heart.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Obviously, we can all picture a car. We have the very fun chance to put pieces together and connect dots that others aren’t seeing. Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. If you’re hiring a grant writer, request samples of grants he’s written. If you’re hiring an operations manager, request samples of strategic plans , program assessments, board reports, or other documents she’s written. Start simple.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Some will write, others take pictures or make movies. Make it fun and sociable as well as worthwhile to get more commitment. Contributing content and spreading the word are voluntary activities, so learn how to create good invitations and actionable opportunities. Respect how people choose to communicate. All energy is good energy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Respondents came from large organizations and small, and from all sub-sectors, and include a small sample from Arizona. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo. Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

I find that blog is interesting and helpful for Cambodian young people as well as fun. Here's a sampling of some of the "Clogs." I earned a bachelor of law from Royal University of Law and Economics in 2003. I am not technologist. Why did you decide to train Cambodians living in rural provinces how to blog? " ).

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Many of them will do like a little sample screening for you so you can see what it looks before you make the investment. So I have a sample donation reply card on the Resource page. We didn’t paint the picture of who potential supporters are for our organization. First off, we have to kind of paint the picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

For the holidays, she has hosted a kindergarten "angel" party where the kids were "angel donors" for families in need, depositing their unwrapped toys and gifts as admittance to the fun. Amy Sample Ward reminds us that your kids don't have to give cash only. "Time, enthusiasm, expertise, skills.it

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The size and the money behind it make a big difference in generating a sample that the Census Bureau can really stand behind. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo. Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Keep It Happy, Keep It Fun, Keep A Deadline, Keep It Urgent: I try as much as possible to have fun with these campaigns. The post was a fun fundraising appeal, " I Feel Good Now That I've Donated " I also had a deadline thanks to the Birthday Causes application and the match I set up. I think it works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

That’s why we added in a general profile picture and some text around the organization’s impact beforehand, all in the voice of the fundraiser, so that the page is engaging even if it’s not updated by the individual fundraisers. To foster a sense of community with our fundraisers and again, make it fun and easy. Get social!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

I've spent the last month building some sample exhibits, as well as a tutorial on interactive exhibit design. Casting it as a walk-through tutorial, with a bit of interaction thrown in, will hopefully turn arduous "instructions" into a fun and informative experience. It's also been a fun team development experience for staff here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. So quantitative data is really, you know, that ordered kind of big picture information. ” You combine the quantitative and the qualitative data in order to paint the picture of the impact that you’ve created. Does that make sense?

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