Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Amy is the Creative Director of Shufflebrain, a game design firm that has unique expertise in identifying and exploiting behavioral human predilections to make games and game-like experiences compelling in everyday contexts. In other words, Amy is the brain behind how and why we game. Enjoy, and please share your comments with others.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Raising the money you need to build a team Let’s say your plan for hiring staff for your nonprofit includes four full-time employees, in addition to yourself as the Executive Director: a Program Coordinator. a Director of Development to build up a fundraising program that keeps the money coming in. 20% a year? Choose a candidate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

One of the takeaways was that in order to pursue this type of learning, organizational culture was the key indicator to success. Peter’s post shares some ideas about cultivating a learning culture and while written for funders, these are applicable to nonprofits. Peter Laugharn, Firelight Foundation executive director.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) - As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

By Larry Orman, Executive Director, GreenInfo Network. To successfully compete for those brain cycles, we've found four characteristics of successful mapping projects, whether the products are fixed images or interactive applications: 1. Data is vital for powerful analysis, but at the end of the day, we're swimming in it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Thus, I was left with two options: one, to let the award go; or two, put my creative brain to use and launch a campaign to raise the funds. Holly Ross ( @ntenross ), Director of NTEN, graciously offered to hold the place for me.The sooner I can raise the funds, the sooner I can book the flight and secure my place.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Here's where I'll be (the links are to MyNTC, the social community site for the conference): New to NTC Orientation (9-10:30 am Thursday) – As an NTEN Member Ambassador, I'll be helping NTEN's fabulous new Membership Director Amy Sample Ward (a perfect choice for this job, don't you think?) I love it.

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Time NTC DC Org 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Not all applications are optimized for pages, visit the app page to check.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

For ten years, he was the director of communications for the Gift of Life organ donation nonprofit, where he oversaw projects ranging from advocating for changes in laws, to a rebranding of the organization. . Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

For ten years, he was the director of communications for the Gift of Life organ donation nonprofit, where he oversaw projects ranging from advocating for changes in laws, to a rebranding of the organization. . Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

From applications to reviews to reporting, there are a lot of moving parts to a funding program. With grant applications that automatically populate your grants management system, the information flows seamlessly without manual entry. The person who coined the term “cat herding” may have been a grants manager.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are annual reports, grant applications, website pages, blogs, appeal letters, policy docu­ments, procedure manuals, thank you notes, press releases, program reports, research papers, legal documents, advertising copy, board orientation documents, promotional material, and much more. Tactics and Tips. Hire staff who can write.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Gabriela Tanasan – Executive Director, Orizonturi Foundation, Campulung Moldovenesc. They submitted an application, assisted by volunteers from the Peace Corps. . The key is the interconnectivity of users - and what can happen when you get connected with people with similar goals.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Having only been incorporated for a year and receiving just last week an anonymous donation to cover our 501c3 filing, we still have a little way to go before we get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Oftentimes I see in board meetings where the executive director or staff, they all have their roles and their decks and their, you know, they, everybody has their speaking moments, but we’re not inviting conversation right off the bat, which is what I tried to model as well by offering surveys right away. . ” Right?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills. The rod cells in the intact peripheral visual field can then take over for the cone cells in the damaged central visual field.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So I just want to, you know, prepare you if you’re about to have an oh my God moment, is your board should not be making strategic decisions except around hiring and firing the executive director. I get too many calls from executive directors in tears. . But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. It’s writing the application.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

He said they've been somewhat disappointed by the applications they've received and surprised by the mixed response in the field to their new approach to arts grant-making. I asked how their new Exploring Engagement Fund (of which my museum was an early grant recipient) was going.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

But the governor became a friend and then I took my skills to the nonprofit sector, and I’ve been executive director, development director, board member, you name it. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . Been a part of our sector for a long time. I’ve made a ton of mistakes.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

” I have a few other books, but those are the two that really are applicable to this. You want to touch their heart if you’re doing something like that, and then you can fill it in with some statistics in the great work you’re doing to go for the left-hand side of the brain. I’d love to chat with you.

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