Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Core elements included using the Razoo giving platform, content best practices, online storytelling, social media strategy, and donor cultivation.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] By Heidi Schudrowitz I was pleasantly surprised to see so many women sitting in the Jefferson Room on the opening day of the conference.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] A Photo Essay by Wendy Marinaccio A team of 30 NTEN-ers volunteered our mornings at the Community for Creative Nonviolence, which runs the largest homeless shelter in the country.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] By Wendy Marinaccio (@wendymarinaccio) Dozens of women joined affinity group organizer Angela on Wednesday for a meeting of "Women In Tech."

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] by Michael Sola. Having my picture with Phil the Penguin was a lot of fun, I was hot just walking around and this Arctic friend had to have been melting!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

on the Future of Fundraising back in 2011. — a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. A session at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, recounted on the TechSoup blog, offers advice on using storytelling for fundraising. TechSoup hosted its first ever Nonprofits Live.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is back and calling for your best 2011 nonprofit videos! Did your organization create impactful videos in 2011? Free registration to the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , provided by NTEN. Are you a nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Download the complete 2011 Millennial Donor Study findings and recommendations by visiting millennialdonors.com. Applying Strategic Storytelling and Fundraising by Geoff Livingston. Be sure to read these blog posts about other topics covered at the Millennial Donor Summit. Micro Volunteering by Kivi Leroux Miller.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle, I attended the session, “Navigating the New Media Landscape,” which brought together expert panelists: Andrew Sherry, VP of Communications for the John S. Image above: Speakers from the "Navigating the New Media Landscape" session at the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

One of the case studies I shared was about NTEN’s recent social fundraiser to raise scholarship money for NTC conference attendance. They set up a c ommunity champions campaign on Razoo and asked their champions to commit to raising $500 each and that the money would be matched by the NTEN board.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Effective data visualization is the future of nonprofit storytelling. The 2011 NTC is only 5 months away, but if you really can't wait, you can feed your conference fix by watching speakers from this year's PopTech. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. Read more posts on our blog.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

American Humanics officially changed its name to the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance in 2011. This year the AMI will be in Denver, and as part of our courseload the group of students who will be attending the conference will undergo an applied fundraising class to raise the money for them and their cohorts to be able to attend the conference.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Why are they the same size as the person whom I casually had a short conversation with at a conference I don’t even remember? As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris. They are larger in our minds.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

2011’s $FG II looked at how individuals, foundations, and advisors research nonprofits, and what information packaging or channel might result in more giving to high-performing nonprofits. But now I’m wondering if anything has really made a difference–have we just been talking, not changing? Maybe there is a fundraising silver bullet.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

It’s been a few days since I returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. The conference was amazing! Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. NTEN 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference by TechSoup.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11. I want to start, first, with a story….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, building robust networks and using social media can help these advocacy organizations make change happen for children in their state. to leverage social media as a way to engage our key audiences, Packard created the Friending the Finish Line project in July 2011.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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