Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

No, it really wasn’t; but it did give most of the world a chance to react in real-time to what could have been much worse. In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Speak the Local Language. What makes this more powerful?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In September, I attended several events as part of Climate Week in New York City, all of which focused on sustainability and how to accelerate the ecopreneur revolution. Ecopreneurs, or startups focused on solving climate challenges, are launching innovative ideas to protect the planet and drive climate impact locally and at scale.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 17, 2014

GIVING BACK: Kickstarting local charity with Adirondack Gives - LakePlacidNews.com | News and information on the Lake Placid and Essex County region of New York - Lake Placid News : If you haven''t heard of it yet, it''s called Adirondack Gives, and it''s a local crowd-funding website inspired by the success of Kickstarter.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 9, 2019

The Local Voices Network (LVN), developed by the nonprofit Cortico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab , is bringing people together to share their perspectives with each other and with a small electronic “digital hearth” that records their every word. Hosts and participants all volunteer their time for the discussions.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

And with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health, there has never been a more important time than now to address mental health conditions. . The New York Community Trust. Areas served: New York (western), Massachusetts (eastern). The New York Community Trust. The Colorado Health Foundation.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health, there has never been a more important time than now to address mental health conditions. . The New York Community Trust. Areas served: New York (western), Massachusetts (eastern). The New York Community Trust. The Colorado Health Foundation.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Whether you’re a development officer at a university, a nonprofit partnering with a local college, or a grateful alumnus seeking to give back, today’s changing landscape of alumni giving will likely impact you. Today’s mega-donor alumni can donate their time, talent, and treasure just about anywhere.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

of respondents felt safe in their own neighborhood “all” or “most of the time” as anti-Asian hate rose across the country, highlighting a need for mental health supports and community safety efforts. Our coalition shows what nonprofits can do when we work together to build data sets that are more reliable, local, and representative.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Read time: 7 minutes If you’re a professional fundraiser, every day is giving day. Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding. For example, a local bike shop could donate a bike, helmet, and a voucher for a free tuneup. Look for B&Bs in unique locations, such as beachfront or mountaintop locales.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In 2012, New York's 92nd Street Y , in tandem with the UN Foundation , started #GivingTuesday as an event to be observed on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Some of the ways she mentioned are: Cities and counties raising funds for several local charities. What is #GivingTuesday? Innovation and Creativity Wanted.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Collaborations, after all, take time. When two or more organizations work together on any project, time must be spent up front setting ground rules, creating processes, and making compromises. We are also seeing examples of new collaboration models that aim to address longer-term issues.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people to give back to their communities by donating money, volunteering their time, or advocating for causes that they believe in. If that’s the case, we’d expect to see a high volume of one-time donations made by donors who never engage with a nonprofit after their initial transaction.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 24, 2022

A school dropout, at 17 he found a job at a local cinema, working his way up to managing director of distribution at 20th Century Fox (Australia). Using local materials and traditional Cambodian architectural concepts, the NCA blends Khmer culture and an environmental ethos in a building that will train Cambodia’s leaders of tomorrow.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With M.O.B.B. United, I’ve been in the driver’s seat of building a nonprofit from the ground up and trying to create a path to funding.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 21, 2022

Now’s the time to block your calendar and RSVP for two days of outstanding thought leadership, networking, and continued learning opportunities. Experience Cloud helps build community for local partners worldwide, eliminating the need to move physical documents from local offices to country offices to headquarters. .

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

They accept applications at any time. Areas served: Mexico, Haiti, US (priority: Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Orleans). Robin Hood is New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization. Areas served: New York City. There are no deadlines or specific grantmaking cycles. Areas served: US.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the following years, New York adopted the Congress’s plan, designating the second Saturday in May as American Indian Day. In addition to celebration, the month is also a time to reckon with the history of the treatment of the Indigenous peoples in America and the impact of their dispossession by European settlers.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. Probably middle of 2008.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I used to conduct advocacy, communications, and fundraising trainings for local nonprofits and political candidates, and one of my favorite frameworks to share with them was the Story of Self, Story of Us, and Story of Now. There needs to be one specific ask of each person that involves a commitment of time or resources.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

While we’re all learning how to live, work and play (at home, all together, all the time, aah!!) Disruption: your new bff. The Metropolitan Opera in New York City, AKA the Met, has long been hailed as one of the most prestigious opera companies in the world. The perfect time for action. It was a revelation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Take advantage of one of those random holidays to foster some recurring donors: Email your one-time donors from the last year with an invitation to repeat their donation. Fundraise ahead of time for extra points or advantages. Bike-a-Thon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

Many nonprofits don’t consider blogging either because they think they need to blog everyday and that it would be too time consuming, or they have no idea what to blog about. Share breaking news. Timely, relevant breaking news is basis of a good social media campaign. Post calls to action. You get the idea.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

After the country’s bicentennial celebrations, Jew approached Representative Frank Horton of New York with the idea to create a month to recognize Asian Pacific Americans. By that time, there were 1.5 million Asian Americans in the U.S. and the population more than doubled over the next ten years to 3.7 million people.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There is an opportunity to support small-scale farmers in accessing low-cost, connected technology to improve their efficiency and efficacy as producers — both during stable times and times of crisis. What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Eric Munoz.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While a phrase I personally find a bit crass, as a resident of New York City, I am constantly reminded however of its truth and poignancy. Every week there seems to be new restaurants, clothing stores, entertainment venues… you name it, that are popping up in locations I’ve long known as something else.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Majora Carter is on a quest to save the world one community at a time. Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. Naturally, she was eager to escape.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our first cohort of Community Fellows came together last week to dig into the topic, specifically investigating: How might we support food banks and food suppliers in anticipating people’s needs locally to provide nutritious meals with dignity? She is from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. “I “ Jennifer Thall.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

Many users—including some of the government clients we work with—have experienced outages and technical glitches with the platform, but have had a difficult time receiving support to correct the issues. During this tumultuous time, we recommend taking a hard look at your Twitter strategy.

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Classy

APRIL 21, 2021

You could find a celebrity supporter, an athlete, or just a well-known personality within your local community. Look within your local community to offer a match with a specific dollar amount to reach. Doing several match days can spring new life into donors just in time to meet your fundraising goals.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2023

The Stonewall riots didn’t mark the start of the gay rights movement, but during a time when it was dangerous to be out and proud, they were a galvanizing call to action for the LGBTQIA+ community to fight for their right to openly be themselves. A year after the riots, the first pride parades took place in several U.S.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Read time: 6 minutes. Video-first platforms like YouTube have provided auto-captioning for quite some time now, while Tiktok launched it in April of this year and Instagram is testing functionality in Stories. Auto-captioning is a great tool to take advantage of when in a rush, but it isn’t the end all be all. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Shop Local is a trend picking up speed this holiday season. Will Blog Local be far behind? The fabulous social change blog, WorldChanging , is celebrating the publication of their 600-page book, WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century , by launching a network of local WorldChanging blogs. worldchanging local blog

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

They accept applications at any time. Areas served: Mexico, Haiti, US (priority: Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Orleans). Our grants are awarded to schools, local music programs, and national music programs.”. Areas served: Boston, Hartford, New York City, Providence, Washington, D.C. Guitar Center.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

And most importantly: it will be documented and shared by large numbers of people, experiencing it first hand, and sharing news and updates in real time. The revolution may not be televised, but no matter where you are, you can now have a front row seat to the broadcast.

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