Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. Have you chosen a way to support an organization working in Haiti throughout 2010?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. Find a charity with a proven track record of success in providing disaster relief and one that has worked in Haiti. Do Not Give To The Haitian Government – Haiti is known to be a corrupt country. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

The people of Haiti are going to need a lot of help after today's 7.0 The American Red Cross is accepting donations for its International Response Fund. . • The American Red Cross is accepting donations for its International Response Fund. Fund for UNICEF also needs donations. earthquake. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Palo Alto Community Fund. Last evening, I had the pleasure of presenting a Networked Nonprofit mini-workshop for a group of about 50 local nonprofits and government agencies in Palo Alto hosted by the Palo Alto Community Fund. Palo Alto Community Fund View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

In order to lead your ministry, provide valuable programming, and connect your community to your mission, you need adequate funds. The group participating in the mission trip, such as the Youth Group or Adult Ministry, are the participants raising funds for the mission trip. That’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 15, 2010

NorthJersey.com: Texting donations brings in millions for Haiti: "Michael Nilsen, senior director of public affairs for the Association of Professional Fundraisers in Arlington, Va., compared the sudden jump in text fund raising to the way online giving broke into the public consciousness following the 9/11 attacks.“One

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

And I couldn’t help think to myself, “oh, so all we need to do to raise funds for a great cause is get a celebrity? This rebound was led by an enormous 163% increase in the International sector due to emergencies like the earthquake in Haiti and flooding in Pakistan. Both of them involved celebrities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

"There's really no more rewarding work in the world than helping women and girls attain the highest possible quality of life." ~ Carinne Brody This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is special because it's part of the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign organized by Tara Sophia Mohr. Share Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? How can we ensure truly revolutionary, “punk rock” ideas get found, selected & funded? Tags: guest blogging. starts around 17:27). CHRISTOPHER R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

One of the most recent examples I've seen that exemplifies this concept is from the organization Free The Kids that used its influencers earlier this year when the earthquake in Haiti struck. This is just one small example of how important it is to engage and keep your users and potential influencers passionate about the cause you drive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time. In less than an hour after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ushahidi platform was used to spotlight areas of refuge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2011

I remember this time last year I was getting ready for work, glancing at the TV in horror as I saw the first live images of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Let’s expand our passion here, and remember Haiti. CNN’s Five Ways You Can Still Help Haiti features opportunities to serve the survivors of Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Akhtar Badshah captured the story in this blog post. Diana shared some of her insights about networked leadership and keys for successful scaling. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Annie Leonard , the director of The Story of Stuff Project , shared a rich story about they have built a global network of activists around the film.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For the Cliff's Notes version, check out the blog post from Steve Peretz of M+R. A recap of fundraising resources of the first 2/3 of 2010 wouldn't be complete without some discussion of the incredible work that the Red Cross did using mobile and social media to raise funds and awareness about the disaster in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. Don’t think of social media as a quick fix to raise funds.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Mobile Fundraising Campaigns Begin For Chile: "Following the earthquake in Haiti, mobile fundraising via texting exploded; with over $40 million raised via text messaging alone. With the massive success of the Haiti campaign, mobile donations are now being used to raise funds for the victims of the 8.8

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

They contribute curriculum ideas, teaching, and even an interactive social network so that members of their virtual university community can participate in webinars, blogs, and peer-to-peer coaching. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Seven Billion Actions.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

From the Red Cross, which used text messages to raise $5 million in relief funds for Haiti, to organizations like micro-lender Kiva, which wouldn’t even exist without the concept of social networking, altruistic organizations and individuals are finding.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. million posts or testimonies on Ushahidi to benefit an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 26, 2010

How Texting is Changing Philanthropy - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review: "Within philanthropy circles, one of the major subtexts of the earthquake in Haiti was the phenomenal success of text-message fundraising appeals. Nonprofits are abuzz about it.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Consult Details: Learn how to do a blog. Consult Details: Selecting the right database software or host-site to keep track of our constituents; mine that database of information for maximum return from investors; use better on-line fund-raising techniques. How did the Red Cross system work for Haiti? Susan Stein | [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Are you raising funds using Facebook & Instagram Fundraising Tools ? Prioritize SEO by publishing content on a regular basis to your website, such as a “News” section or blog. Nonprofit Tech for Good is offering a free webinar on March 29, Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits. What is your engagement rate?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. SMS text-to-give in the United States experienced a major spike following the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 but has never achieved inflated expectations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

As part of TechSoup's do-it-yourself month, Nonprofits Live (NPLive) featured a discussion of blogging. Blogging is a great way for organizations to communicate and establish themselves as thought leaders. Jody Dilday , executive director of Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas (SPSFNA). Vision and Execution.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

If you want to pitch your story to several news outlets, you need to draft a press release, which you can later adapt for your website’s blog, your email marketing communications, and your social channels. Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

BB: As you know, I have a blog called Have Fun, Do Good. If you have a blog, just mentioning it on there is really great. Update: Last week Ashley and Carolynn had the 2nd East Bay Vegan Bake Sale and raised close to $1,200 for Animal Place and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. It's been a really, really good tool for us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

Friending and funding. He turned and pointed a finger at Wendy Harman from the Red Cross who was also in the room and said, “When the Haiti earthquake struck, I contacted the Red Cross. I offered to connect the community supporting my work with your efforts in Haiti. Working effectively with crowds. Networked Governance.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

The magnitude of the destruction and the heart-breaking images have remained with us as organizations, governments, and private individuals have struggled beyond the immediate aftermath to effect long-term change and economic impact within Haiti. Photos by George Durham.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 29th, 2010 The Nonprofit Research Collaborative released its first report today. renewed contracts.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2013

When the earthquake struck in Haiti in. for Facebook, Myspace, blogs, and more, where users can simply type their phone number into a data field and make a donation. stages of funding. Once your nonprofit is funded. You can also read more posts like this on their new blog, 4 Your Mission. Though Crowdrise has a.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Recently, Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC published an eBook entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? How effective is their work on Facebook in producing bottom line results for US Fund for UNICEF? Our goal was to answer the following questions: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Hannah of Word Lily , Amy of My Friend Amy , and Natasha of Maw Books Blog are hosting a Social Justice Challenge during 2010. Last week the Acumen Fund announced The Blue Sweater Book Club in a Box. The Blue Sweater , Jacqueline Novogratz’s memoir about her journey to found the Acumen Fund, is coming out in paperback February 16th.

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