Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

This year, TMWL is raising funds that will support the work of 4 passionate women who truly believe that everyone has something to give: “ Mama Lucy &# Kamptoni sold chickens in her Tanzanian village & turned her income into a primary school that now serves over 400 children.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To raise funds and create an engaging #GivingTuesday experience for your social supporters, we recommend hosting a Facebook Challenge. . During these, supporters complete a task (such as walking 10k steps per day) for a defined time period (such as a month) while raising funds for your nonprofit using a Facebook fundraiser.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This means that in most cases (though we’ll walk through a few exceptions) your supporters start individual fundraisers on their own to raise funds on behalf of your organization. How can I successfully raise more funds with a Facebook peer-to-peer fundraiser? Answer questions such as: How do I start a Facebook fundraiser?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nick co-founded Stop Soldier Suicide stemming from his experiences leading Paratroopers as a Ranger qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne during 27 months deployed to combat zones in Afghanistan. Nick's work with GoodUnited resulted in being named The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 2017 Distinguished Young Alumnus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To raise funds and create an engaging #GivingTuesday experience for your social supporters, we recommend hosting a Facebook Challenge. . During these, supporters complete a task (such as walking 10k steps per day) for a defined time period (such as a month) while raising funds for your nonprofit using a Facebook fundraiser.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

We've written quite a bit on the benefits of crowdfunding campaigns here on TechSoup, including a platform comparison and a webinar called The Wisdom of the Crowd(funding). PandoDaily blew the lid off the HealBe campaign after it reached $730,000 in funding. But what happens when that trust gets broken?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

Oxfam America Unwrapped and fund virtual gifts like a pair of school uniforms for $20 , or planting 50 trees for $30. * One of GlobalGiving's "Mom Knows Best" projects like Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso or Fast Tracking Education for Women and Older Girls in Afghanistan. *

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

SAWA-Australia is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Afghanistan women with education and health services. The Humane Society uses text-to-give and social media campaigns together to raise funds for their causes. Text-to-Give Case Studies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better! Please add your voice to the conversation. Tell us what you are doing to make positive change in your community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). According to their site, "RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Whether you are starting your own nonprofit, or simply interested in how a person can take a seed of an idea for positive change and make it into reality, you'll find some nuggets of wisdom in this book from the founder of the Global Fund for Women who wrote, "Believing that social change is possible is the beginning. It was Anne Brodsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The list of partner charities at launch include: US Fund for UNICEF. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. . - GamesThatGive has invited some of the most well-known, innovative, and effective organizations to serve as charitable partners. The Wilderness Society. Ronald McDonald House Charities. Jumpstart for Young Children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Bill Somerville makes the search for innovative funding opportunities sound like an Indiana Jones adventure. It's the do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. tools, it was about how Web 2.0

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Credit: GOLEES.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. World Wildlife Fund. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. World Wildlife Fund. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. ” Also have a look at our webinar recording and other resources: The Wisdom of the Crowd(funding). Find the Teespring discount offer on TechSoup.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Successful fund raisers for social causes have known that for a long time. A recent series of studies by psychologists provides the research that proves it -- they have found that fund-raising appeals do best when they are crafted around a single gripping image.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So that leaves about 20% of the funding pool to organizations like you. And here’s Anthony, he was in one of my wounded veteran programs that these young men and women who’ve lost their legs and arms in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steven: Donor is saying I don’t really care where the funds go, you know, you pick.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. A Call to Action: Defend Women's Progress, Human Rights in Afghanistan by Zainab Salbi on the Huffington Post. So, there are lots of tangible results from what we are doing, and that's how we measure our success.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Over the past 18 months or so, the antennas have been appearing around Jalalabad , a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. It wasn't created by a government either, but it could become the new symbol of infrastructure rebuilding in Afghanistan and around the world. These may not be the most sophisticated antennas, but they work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Sponsors give $27/month to fund a survivor's basic needs, as well as seed money to start income generating projects. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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