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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The solution is to have a recipe or rather, a plan, that maps out all your fundraising for the year. You see, your annual fundraising plan is a treasure map that leads you to the exact activities that will raise the most money for your nonprofit over the course of the coming year. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Part of working in the social impact space means thinking about the big picture, the long-term goals, and the multi-year strategy. Here is a very small collection of some of my favorite pictures from Sunday’s event – all that include water. Find more pictures and stories from #101010 and 350.org Hulhumale Maldives.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. Invite everyone to join the movement by sharing pictures, stories, and signs to spread your message (try Flickr or Tumblr ). “The revolution will not be televised.”

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Think of it like this: In “Community-driven Social Impact,” the driving is up to the community; but you can act as the vehicle and event the map for those “drivers.” View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. Case Studies.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Nature Conservancy’s photo contests : The crowd, in this case it’s one that loves nature photos, shares the pictures they love about nature and in the process grow their community. (We’ll put up more notes after the session, too!). Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Check out this example from Refugee Week that asks supporters to change their profile pictures on their online profiles to show solidarity and spread the message. The way we choose tools based on our networks/friends' choice is really clear when you map it like this!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

When I facilitated technology and web workshops for nonprofits in the 1990's, I did a lot of workshops on TechnoStress where small groups would identify their concerns and then literally draw a picture of them. Amy Sample Ward shared a collection of links recently pointing to my post about silo culture. using the web, email, etc.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Create personas and outline tasks: Create a sample persona that represents each audience group you serve. You have a site map that resonates with the way your audience accesses information. Remember, your website is not just a pretty picture. Assign them key tasks and document results. Engaging Visual Design.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Obviously, we can all picture a car. So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

People don’t see ‘big picture’ but relate locally&# (@ kristianakocis ). Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link]. Kinda technical, but for any nerds the drupal.org profile of TckTckTck is worth a look [link].

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

In the past few weeks, I’ve used my iPad to connect to WebEx conferences, FaceTime with coworkers, update my OneNote folders and Evernote Notebooks, and take a picture of my receipts to attach to an expense report. MindJet Maps – for developing quick business process or architecture diagrams, or capturing notes in a visual format.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You will not be able to identify tools and engagement methods for your organization online without knowing the bigger picture and without knowing it in concrete goals that will let you build and work towards them. Liveblogging notes from Beth Kanter’s NTC session on “Mapping your social media strategy to metrics&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I had the honor of presenting with Laura Whitehead and Amy Sample Ward who were on site. The idea: The online social graph is the map being constructed by social networks of every person on the Internet and how they are connected. at the big picture level. Need to avoid shiny object syndrome.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

To continue to expand services outside of Chicago, they needed to map their data. Through surveys, here is just a sample of what they learned: 20% of their families struggled with food insecurity. Through surveys, here is just a sample of what they learned: 20% of their families struggled with food insecurity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

If I am less busy, those will come out next month which include corruption issue ( [link] ), legal update ( [link] ), update about demonstration/protest which mainly on land issue ( [link] ), border issue ( [link] ), and for picture or Khmer hand writing ( [link] ) which maybe workable for non-English Cambodians and children. Saransopha.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Save the Children has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources. "Time, enthusiasm, expertise, skills.it

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

So, your message must paint a clear picture so the donor easily understands the impact their gift will make. Have a picture of Rex ready to share on your phone!). You could say something like “Give to support our nonprofit’s good work” and people would give. Your message should also be short. We’re a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For those that can’t tell, this is a picture of a clock on the face of a coffee maker. From another perspective, there’s the side of our data that translates into APIs, maps, and info graphics. We will have maps telling the stories of our impact for us (for examples of this already in use, check out google earth’s nonprofit stories).

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. You have the whiteboard that you can map them out. And so you can kind of get the picture of how you could organize and rank them.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2012

Mapping is one of the most-used and easily recognizable options. It’s easy to see and understand a map right away (especially using something like Google Maps, which most people have seen before or even used themselves). What if the map included information from service providers, schools, and other local organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

The Big Picture. Several of the newest social platforms create “interest graphs” a map for navigating to subjects and people of interest. The Interest graph is a superset of the social graph, a people map. Source: Elad Blog. Pinterest is a small example of how the social web is evolving.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. You can share PDFs, you can share presentations, you can share pictures, you can share videos, links, you can share your location and they’re all stored in your WhatsApp chat. Here are some pictures.” So this is massive. So this is.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Resource mapping, who’s already here? If you feel like you haven’t been able to hear from enough stakeholders, be honest and transparent with that and say, you know, we need you to spend a little bit more time on data collection to make sure we’re getting a full picture here. . This is such a fun topic.

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