Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! When a friend starts a campaign, supports or fundraises for an organization or cause publicly on a social networking platform, they broadcast that action and encourage their friends to do the same.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Really looking forward to this conversation! Empowerment is unconditional. Find cheap, easy ways to try your ideas out with real people in real situations before committing lots of resources. Design to support conversations, relationships, stories - not to organise documents. The 45 Social by Social Propositions.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I recently had a conversation with a friend and colleague about what I perceive to be a revolution in progress. It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. what about calls to action that aren’t online? Good campaigns move away from awareness 2 spur action.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The session, presented by Cultural Connections , focused on museums, exhibits, and programs specifically developed to inspire visitors to take action in their own lives to create social change. There's a huge range of projects designed to encourage visitors to "jump in," "stand up," "take action," and other declarative verbs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

We often ask what is in it for us, but seldom focus on the motivations of the person we want to Retweet (RT) our messages so that we can grow our network, increase brand identification, and inspire action for our cause. Just like any real world activist, motivation is triggered by empowerment and shut down with arrogance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

" So the title has to be a call to action for community participation, and then work for the social media curious that might be attending one of the trainings. I like the idea of using the term "tool kit" in the title or tagline" Joe Solomon said "Make sure your domain name matches your name. The Conversation.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Your Fundraising Career Empowerment Guide , was given a 5 star review by About.com. . You need to start having the conversation with your board, your volunteers, and other staff, that EVERYONE needs to be taking responsibility for fundraising. Her latest book, Get the Job! Our donors don’t give year after year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

"Our philanthropy has to ignite action. But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. The program works in partnership with states across the country. "Our We need leverage points."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Terms like "inclusive," which have become commonplace in the field, are still highly contested when put into action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. We have directions and guidelines on the website , and lots of good ideas about art materials and how to get started. Learn more!

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. So to give you an idea, we were a 3 person organization before Puerto Rico and we’re still a small organization. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I will do an overview connecting the idea of metrics to poetry. Nonprofit RockStars: Using Video to Share Your Message by David King Video is a great way to share your organization's message, start conversations, and move people to action. How do I measure thee, let me count the ways, etc). THIS is Iron Chef ???

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

A few months ago, I pitched this panel idea to Steven and he immediately got behind it. So, you know, if you work out the worst case scenario, you can work out some of the actions that you could take if certain things happen. . Or are you in a position where you don’t really have a choice but to immediately take action steps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. Do you have ideas how to keep in touch after a two day seminar?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

You can also listen to our conversation on iTunes. If you came to us with an exciting idea and we felt a connection to you, and felt that you were the right entrepreneur to take it to that level, that's how we start. A lot of people have great ideas. How do you take ideas and put them into action?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. I think some of the folks who are listening may have had a vision for something, an idea that they thought would make the world a better place. How did you know to trust your idea and explore it? I've posted an edited transcript below.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Right now, though, we want to share the 21 other fresh ideas that were pitched.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They write poems about their experiences, and when they recite them in community meetings, their neighbors are outraged, and mobilized immediately to action. And the little girls do exactly that.

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