Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program” What Solutions Are Hiding In Our PDFS? :

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? How many beaches does America have? How deep is the Pacific Ocean?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Another way to think about this is to ask this question: If your organization ceased to exist , how upset would your board members, volunteers, and supporters be? In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” Alexander Hamilton sings about who he and America are meant to be. Like America, he is “young, scrappy, and hungry.” Not enough.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Leaders at companies, global brands, nonprofits, and everyone in between are asking that important question: what is a purpose-driven company? The company still sells products with potentially questionable chemicals, sugary foods, and alcohol. The first question we ask is: what do our customers want?” Yet, purpose is a journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I realized that from participants reflections and questions that they’re already curating content – especially as policy analysts, but may not be integrating and sharing through social media channels. ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

During the peak, it was ranked as the #1 nonprofit bestseller, #3 for general industries , #19 in the overall business segment , and # 108 overall in America ! We had a lot of fun with the Ustream live stream and Twitter chat where we discussed the themes from the book and answer questions. What a send off! The Fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I don't want to you annoy you dear readers, but I can't pass up an opportunity to raise some money for the Sharing Foundation to help care for children in Cambodia. I am thinking of a series -- perhaps sharing one brief story every day or other day about the good work that the Sharing Foundation does by focusing on some of the children.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Now WatSan has helped people in Tanjung Priok get filters for creating fresh clean water, and they have started selling it to other slums, creating income, a cottage industry, and money for uniforms for their children to attend school, breaking the cycle of poverty. When I returned to America I began my career as a nonprofit consultant.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the lead character of Alexander sings about who he and America are meant to be. The idea was to ask artists to contribute one-of-a-kind items to an online monthly auction where proceeds would 100% benefit a range of local services for the unhoused, people with AIDS, frail seniors and vulnerable children.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

Get the Children out First "How could this happen?". These are all important questions, but they're not as immediately important as resolving the crisis quickly. Don't be afraid to tell authority figures that they'll need to wait for the crisis to be resolved before receiving answers to their questions. Who is responsible?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2010

The question on my mind and many of yours is where and how can I help? Author: Jill Ward. I am saddened by the news and images coming from Haiti after the devastating earthquake that hit yesterday. With a few quick searches on Google and Twitter there is no shortage of options from tweeting to texting.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Ask yourself some of the following questions. Sometimes the answer to these questions leads you to invest in new nonprofit software like a new CRM to automate donor engagement efforts or volunteer management tools to streamline volunteer scheduling. What areas of our work do we need more time for? What can we automate?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this guide, we’ll answer the following questions related to corporate giving: What Is Corporate Giving? Disney Disney is committed to helping children and families around the world. They mostly support children’s hospitals, arts and STEM education, and environment conservation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

I’ve given approximately 2,900 hours of work for America since 2009. Public Allies and AmeriCorps have made it possible for me to accomplish my dream and serve the United States of America. I hope to teach my own children, someday, all that I’ve learned about service and citizenship. I give my mother all the credit.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. The projects varied from educational tools for children to energy efficiency. Burlington hosted its first-ever Day of Civic Hacking event.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

I will be joined by Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, Jacob Worell of IAVA, and Sheila Katz of Ask Big Questions at Hillel International to discuss topics ranging from thinking like a startup to exploring reducing competition and consolidating resources. This involves disrupting the nonprofit sector as we know it today. 2:15 to 3:30. 10:45 to 12:00.

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See3

JUNE 3, 2009

The GATC’s most distinguished project to date is the Genesis World Music Ensemble, or the Saffron Caravan, which brings together music artists from the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas to revisit, reinvent and link musical traditions. Wendy Sternberg answers the question with a resounding Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The title of this blog post is taken from an article posted over at Slate mostly talking about the Facebook component of the recent America's Giving Challenge, posing the question, "Can social networks and virtual communities revolutionize charitable giving?" But, it not necessarily anything new.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

Solving real-world issues in a virtual world environment is a growing trend, present in initiatives such as Zynga’s in-game Japan Earthquake Relief efforts as well as games like America 2049 , Ecotopia and others. Through melding fact and fiction in an Alternate Reality Game (ARG), America 2049 focused on the future of human rights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! Her reflection questions: How might young people use social networks (existing or yet-to-be-built) to learn about philanthropy and support causes that matter to them? Over 95% raised goes directly to supporting the children! Then develop a relationship with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

We've never met face-to-face, but I think he emailed me a question after reading an article I wrote for a print publication and we've been Facebook friends. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge. That's Adam Nicholson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Reciprocity : Roger Carr helped me with winning the America's Giving Challenge he blogged (more than once I might add), left supportive comments, retweeted to his network ( connected me to Dr. Mani ), and personally donated to my campaign. s annual nationwide event, Arthritis Walk, that raises awareness and funds to fight arthritis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Apps allow citizens to use their zip codes to look up their elected officials and voice their concerns or support on a policy issue are not unique to Twitter as I learned from posting about the App on Google+. Voice for America’s Children has a similar app on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I tried to make the point by raising the question, " Can you quantify the intangible ?" I'm trying to shift myself off the forward movement and into reflection mode around the America's Challenge. awesome person, mother to adopted children from Cambodia and board member for her org, The Sharing Foundation ???could

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. But keep the questions coming. But the other question that they have to really think through is, well, what can we do? I think that’s a loaded question. So don’t be shy.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. Hobbies or groups, charitable organizations, so that’s what the rest of America is saying. But say hi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

The question is "when is enough enough? (in If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge. With $10 and 10 minutes of your time you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r= link] Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. Lisa McClure The 12for12k project - [link]. -

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And just to make it easy, we’ll ask you to type your questions in the chat.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

According to Arno Penzias, the head of research at Bell Labs, the mother of one of his teachers at Columbia used to ask her son persistently when he was just a young schoolchild: "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" The question was not what did you learn in school today, but what good questions did you ask.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

There is a surprising number of nonprofit computer refurbishers in North America that now supply accessible technology equipped computers, and lately iPads and iPods to disabled people at no or low cost. That's where nonprofit computer refurbishers come in. How Accessible Technology Computer Refurbishment Came About. Touch the Future.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether the use of stories or data will create a more compelling year-end appeal: Dear Charity Clairity, Should nonprofits appeal to reason or emotion in their appeals?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. Do type in questions during. You can put the questions in the Q&A. I will be asking you questions and your answers will go in the chat. I have a poll question for you. So go ahead and just answer the question. Here we go.

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