Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania.

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Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

The 2010 PDF (Personal Democracy Forum) was the place to be for nonprofit and political campaigners last week in NYC. The dominant theme weaving its way through this year's PDF conference keynotes and hallway chatter was a refreshing wake up call to political campaigns and NGO's.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. Can you talk about what you mean by care, and some examples of organizations that have used this concept of care effectively?

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

While direct mail may be declining in some markets since its heyday in the 90s it is still an effective form of direct communication to raise funds and the NGO brand. A key example of that is peer to peer fundraising associated with events, where some of the most progressive groups are now raising 75% of funds online. Stop fundraising.

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