Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 I mean – we want to be responsive and fair and listen to feedback openly, but I think at the end of the day the old saying is true. You can’t make everyone happy all of the time. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

The study draws on survey data from a sample of 400+ California youth aged 19–22 who were surveyed after the 2008 presidential election. Over 200 of them were also surveyed during their junior or senior years of high school in 2006 and 2007. . “Both of these outcomes are good for democracy.&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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Care2

JANUARY 18, 2012

“When we are sitting in between the announcement and the actual change, we can go many directions with speculation - from hopes to fears," said Amy Sample Ward of NTEN. ” Colin Delany, Editor of Epolitics.com says “some of us were on GetActive back when Convio bought it (2007?).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

The core team was the same: David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and Amy Sample Ward - all co-authors, with Cass Business School of the forthcoming Social by Social handbook. We did have the benefit of a set of props - more on that later - and lessons from the session that we ran at the SHINE09 conference a couple of weeks ago. More on that here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Regular readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners might remember that I interviewed Numi Tea Co-Founder, Reem Rahim, for the Big Vision Podcast in January 2007. Our tea hostess also told us about Numi's newest product line of organic puerh tea , and gave us some free samples to take home. The hubs had a super yummy darjeeling tea.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. You can read more about the MySpace/Facebook move here , here , and here.). 25 median donation amount. 35,000 causes have received at least one donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

This includes many, many schools, community groups, and grassroots nonprofits that embraced the free service since it opened its doors in 2007 and will now be forced to pay, or relocate their communities, or say farewell. Last week, Ning, announced a complete end to free services for its users. Start a Petition ».

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

billion donated in 2007. This is a 44% increase over 2007's online giving estimates. Start by checking a sample of your own data. Target Analytics found that 37% of the donors acquired online in 2006 who gave in both 2007 and 2008 never gave online again in either of their subsequent years of giving after their acquisition year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. It will also provide you with a sample chart of accounts of my design and one called the "Unified Chart of Accounts," which was created by a number of major nonprofit support organizations. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). On our “ samples from the field ” section of our website, we have opted for a low-tech solution to shield against viruses and inappropriate content. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2009

When I wrote my first 10 Holiday Gifts that Give Back post in 2007, there weren't many posts like it. I'm telling you, this is just a sampling. So, before you dive into your holiday gift shopping, remember that the "gifts that give back" the most are the ones given with love, no matter what they are. This year, there are TONS.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. She is also an advisor to the Plastic Pollution Coalition and a contributing editor for BlogHer.com.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

Amy Sample Ward took up the discussion on her blog. . 09NTC NTENny Highlights: Starting with the 2007 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we've recognized NTEN members who contribute that extra "something" to the work of NTEN and this nonprofit technology community every year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The Web section offers a sampling of numbers only data. For instance, folks can check to see how much we have spent so far this year and how it relates to what we projected in our 2007 budget. The public now has access to statistics about attendance, the art collection and even our budget.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. The assessment was conducted by Peter Levine, Peter Deitz and Cynthia Gibson. With nearly 5,000 applicants and more than 15,000 voters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

The Case Foundation was a pioneer in designing and implementing social giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge in 2007 and 2009 which inspired many nonprofits to experiment and incorporate these practices as illustrated above. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Giving Anonymously began in 2005 with our website up and running in early 2007. We are a volunteer organization; each of us donates our time without pay to keep Giving Anonymously running.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Some highlights from our chat: • During the 2007 Blogger Challenge, he said, “we saw that a handful of bloggers who wouldn’t appear on the Technorati top 100 list and don’ have huge readerships were actually capable of raising the most money from their readers because they have a personal relationship with their followers.&#.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2016

Since 2007, the Peer-to-Peer Professionals Forum, formerly the Run-Walk-Ride Fundraising Council, has been the leading conference for the peer-to-peer fundraising industry. This year was the largest conference ever, and that fact alone speaks to the continued growth of the space.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

Impact: About half of those nonprofit organizations included in the random sample for this study adopted at least some of the SOX provisions, in addition to the two required ones. Accounting Horizons, 2007, 20(1). They reported: Better financial controls (27.3%). Reduced risk of accounting fraud (24.3%). 22, Number 3, Spring 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Recommend by LG Davitian : See Sample Policies in Appendix. Here's the policy for online persona from Easter Seals: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy SECTION III PART I-9 Approved by board: July 14, 2007. Anne Gentile comments on Sun Blogging Policy. Update: I remembered! It was Easter Seals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

I've included a sampling below, and hope that you'll add other events in the comments. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). You can find UN-related events on WomenWatch.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. And, yes they did ! It's easy to set up.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

rootwork : The Powershift youth climate change conf in 2007 was also largely organized via social media [link]. Specific goals help focus. neddotcom : Another campaign worth mentioning [link]. rootwork : I remember a campaign from some time ago about getting more women on tech panels, but can’t find specific blogs abt it.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. Let''s be honest, social media is progressing and changing every single day and most people don''t have the time to keep up with the most effective way to do social media.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

decrease from 2007 ($83,034), after adjusting for inflation. Average total giving to religious causes dropped in 2009 to $9,985 from $17,635 in 2007, a decrease of 43.4%. Average total giving to secular causes was also down in 2009 to $46,852 from $71,200 in 2007, a decrease of 34.2%. This is a 34.9%

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 26, 2007

Shortly after the Call-In Day, Starbucks announced that starting in January 2007 it would increase its supply of rBGH-free dairy by 10%, which would amount to 37% of their total supply and would only be in certain parts of the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. I just sampled one month. If I look at the RSS subscriber trends, that is a whole different story: My readership those who subscribe has continued to grow over time In June 2007, I had 1,260 subscribers. What does that mean? Audience Growth.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

ToneCheck , a software program that works with Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010, helps to ensure your tone is clearly communicated and understood. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Or, do you have employees whole struggle with the tone of their emails? You might want to check out ToneCheck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. This is just a sampling. That's rare in a conference setting. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference. It reminds of the thread on trust and knowing people that we got into after Andy Carvin's talk.

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