Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2011

Over the past few weeks, we received over 250 applications from bloggers around the world – from California to Kenya, and from Mexico to Iraq. " What We Lose if We Lose Data.gov | Freedom to Tinker – "In its latest 2011 budget proposal, Congress makes deep cuts to the Electronic Government Fund.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. From finding the right grants to writing and applying for them, grant proposals require a lot of research and attention to detail! What is a grant proposal?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

My latest post on HuffPo is now up: Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet , about my proposal to the WEF's Global Redesign Initiative. What would you propose to global leaders to make humanity better off? That's not an endorsement of my proposal by the WEF, but I am certainly looking forward to going next week!

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Qgiv

MARCH 28, 2022

For a peer-to-peer 5K or fun run, your costs might include police for crowd control, permits from local governance to close off roads, EMT services, event t-shirts, snacks, opening ceremony costs (band, DJ, etc.), When you apply for grants, you’ll usually need to submit a detailed proposal to the grant organizations you choose.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

And it's very easy to do an application. It has been five years now since the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling that opened the door to 501(c)(4) nonprofits and massive anonymous "dark money" political contributions for political ads. Just go to newschallenge.org to explain your idea during the application period.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

From new forms of political campaigning in the United States, experiments in e-government and civic participation in England, from the fight against internet censorship in Australia and New Zealand and from start-ups in Canada and France. And beyond. How can you follow along or join the conversation? Are there any rules for #Change Chats?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Foundations are beginning to open themselves up as never before, and we want to be a leader in that movement.”. We need to move beyond our customary categorical thinking and invite everybody – business, government, communities, organizations, individuals – to work together to address the issues we face before it’s too late.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

From new forms of political campaigning in the United States, experiments in e-government and civic participation in England, from the fight against internet censorship in Australia and New Zealand and from start-ups in Canada and France. And beyond. How can you follow along or join the conversation? Are there any rules for #Change Chats?

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Conversation Australia New Zealand France 100

Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

GCF seeks to target these areas to help fill the gaps in climate financing through Requests for Proposals (RfP) and pilot programmes which are focused on specific themes. Through a coalition of corporate sponsors they seek innovative grant applications for programs that will unify communities as they address their community improvement needs.

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Conservancy Environment Grant Alaska 57

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In the absence of social media compliance and regulatory standards, social networking technologies face increased scrutiny in both the government and commercial sectors. While many government leaders and corporate executives recognize the ability for social media to enable organizations to ?tap tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. Ready to learn, prior to this year, had 3 or 4 applicants. When I leave I will write a book that is called the 100 Things We Do to Make Government Worse. This year, it had 30. We create systems to mitigate all risk.

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Game Education Change Classroom 132

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Government funding and donor support. Encourage open communication, collaboration, and teamwork among your team members. Conduct volunteer recruitment drives with online stories, on the ground leaflets and word of mouth, and clear application to apply on your website. . Financial projections. Volunteer recruiting.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. Ready to Learn, prior to this year, had 3 or 4 applicants. When I leave I will write a book that is called the 100 Things We Do to Make Government Worse. Big initiatives to big corporations - what can small groups do?

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Game Education Change Classroom 60

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It’s an interesting combination of social media-based contest, submissions of ideas comments and voted on by readers, and traditional grantmaking, requiring all submission to also fill out a grant proposal for their requested funding. Change Climage Change: Grant Proposals Open. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. So how do we propose to pay for it? In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

Because this group oftentimes brings in the largest amount of funding, creating good fundraising strategies around these activities is an effective way to open up the pipeline to more contributions. Government Grants. Federal, state, and local governments offer nonprofits funding through grant programs. Federated Funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. era websites. I expect it isn???t

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

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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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Make sure you’re tracking KPIs like average gift size or email open rate to help you best determine how your fundraising strategies are working. With a 98% open rate , it’s highly likely that your supporters will see, read, and respond to the messages, donation appeals, and updates you send via text message.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2018

Preparing proposals has become cumbersome or disjointed across the organization . Application and budget preparation . Application submission . As you look at getting your grant office started, you can begin with one person with the caveat that you have a low volume of applications and few awards to manage.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. A select group of these ideas are provided below.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. This meeting was a follow-up for me from my attendance earlier this year at the main WEF meeting in Davos , where I presented my proposal as part of the GRI. We need to encourage limitations and exceptions (like the one in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Hybrids include a mix of openness and curated decision-making by experts.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. They are open seasonally and have small visitation. Make a list.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And so we don’t want those predictions to come through at all, and grant funding is one way literally to help you keep the doors open. Government grants, which include state and U.S. I wrote this one just a month or two ago about what to do with unsolicited proposals. Grants are still out there. No, no, no.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So when you think about impact, think about the fact that people don’t want to just support your existence just because, you know, keep those doors open, keep the lights on. Grant proposals. But then Duck Team 6 in Texas wrote an application and said, “$500 funds 5 spay surgeries.” Partnership agreements.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. Maybe, if you’re really lucky, you’ll get me to show up for a free event like an open house or something on Zoom. Who could you engage with?

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