Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

How a Small Nonprofit Used Social Media & Crowd-Sourcing to Win the 2009 Global Giving Challenge - frogloop Home~Care2’s blog for nonprofits - frogloop - "The goal was simple. If you aren't using the micro-blogging tool at your organization, you can read some of the interviews with others who are to get some ideas!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2010

Several TechSoup Global staffers recently participated in Foundation Week in Brussels. European Foundation Week Session: Strengthening Europe's role in advancing children's rights – Organized by EFC Children and Youth Interest Group, 1st June 2010. This post comes from executive assistant Janet Yao.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

is a rich country and, as of 2011, ranks as the most generous nation in the world, 1 only five percent of its charitable giving goes to international causes. Other examples are Global Giving , the Skoll Center and Ashoka. New York: Random House, 2009. is a question I often hear people ask. In fact, though the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Happy listening!

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7. 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. This year's theme is climate change. 77 ways to build community in your neighborhood from Our Blocks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3). Banks were not lending.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. foundation match days trending upward.)

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Listen Read Martin Fisher, Co-founder and CEO, KickStart Listen Read ?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

Jim Fruchterman Chairman’s Address to the Social Enterprise Alliance 2009 Annual Summit The world’s a mess. We have a global economic meltdown. And we have this thing called the global climate crisis. There were foundations that were told that it was against their fiduciary duty to make investments in social enterprises.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Her newest book, the story of a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations for 34 years, has inspired an upcoming documentary and feature film. They'll be publishing a young readers' version of the book in late January 2009. Proceeds from every copy of What is the What goes to The Valentino Achak Deng Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. This vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. By Skylar Woodward.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. This vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. By Skylar Woodward.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. YouTube has an incredibly diverse and engaged global community who not only post videos, but interact with each other through text comments, video responses, and messages. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. YouTube has an incredibly diverse and engaged global community who not only post videos, but interact with each other through text comments, video responses, and messages. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” ” Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. On December 8, 2009, OMB released the Open Government Directive (OGD), which provided specific guidance on fulfilling the vision set forth in the January memorandum. Vote for this Idea]. Contact Infromation Directory for Int. Disaster Response.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global. She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. It is a large nonprofit and the largest funder of legal aid for low-income Americans in the nation. Peter Campbell. John Merritt.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

At least two are decidedly tech-savvy, however, and have built national and international networks of donors. The One Percent Foundation (OPF) is engaging new donors in their 20s and 30s by giving them a platform and democratic process to pool 1% of their incomes for social change. Since 2009, chapters have started in over 20 cities.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2009. She has spoken at conferences around the world, including the London School of Economics’ Family Planning Summit, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Impact Awards.

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