Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

Location: global (telephone and web). If you are interested in helping organize, host, or participate, please let me know! Details: Date: May 12, 2009. Panels: See the list of panel sessions here. Register: Registration is not yet open. It will be the evening of the 12th, directly following the telesummit. Why Women Who Tech?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. I haven't slept much working on this project (but feeling really motivated!)

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APRIL 9, 2008

I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices asked people if they would consider donating their schwag for the Cambodian bloggers conference. I was going to blog it on BlogHer for my next deadline, but Jen raised what we she needed in 24 hours.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

On her portfolio site she shares a life vow called Threads of Empathy As part of a life-vow I have made which is at the basis of much of my art, I donate 10% of my income from all art sales to help provide opportunity and education in developing countries. Donate $10 or more to our cause through Global Giving now ! Thank you so much!

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

I sent out a note to the women on the BlogHer Contributing Editor list. Send out a reminder email a week, or so before your meeting with the call-in number, and 3-5 reflection questions to help guide your chat. Find a handful of people who want to read the same book as you. I didn't actually think it would turn into a book club.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

1) Intangibles often come in the form of stories or anecdotes about the technology value and if used along with numbers can help make the case. I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. help win this thing.

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MAY 3, 2012

Jocelyn is passionate about helping nonprofits to succeed online so that they can change the world! As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Network for Good , she is privileged to lead the team to help over 5,000 nonprofits raise more friends and funds online. Words are another passion of mine.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

FOKO was created after the TED Global conference: ???Africa when TED Fellow Andriankoto and his fellow bloggers Mialy , Lova , and Joan combined their talents and never ending activism to start the FOKO project , to help support Madagascar???s The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

I asked my Facebook and Twitter pals for suggestions, and they came up with the list below: Amnesty International Antenna Theater's Ecological Calendar (They have an iPhone app too !) According to the article, the Zoo Boise has a Poop of the Month calendar that features different species and their feces. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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MAY 16, 2012

She is the founder of Feed Me Darling, a business that helps professional women eradicate food cravings and gain lasting control over emotional eating. The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy).

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MARCH 9, 2011

Through coaching, workshops and a variety of online events, Jamie helps women find the confidence and courage to discover and express their creative spirit, whether that means exploring their artistic self, or bringing more of their creative capacity to their life and business.

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MARCH 10, 2011

The work I do as a Coach and as a Ceremonialist has everything to do with helping people hone their personal values and then bring them to life.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dining for Women's blog Enough Mission: "The Enough Project is helping to build a permanent constituency to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity." GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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APRIL 25, 2012

Amy is a certified life coach devoted to helping women unfurl into their authentic selves. I'm starting the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series up again! My first guest blogger is the lovely Amy Kessel.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. is the managing editor for Global Voices. Rebecca Corliss is Boston area social media activist and one of the leaders who helped raised over $20,000 for Jane Doe, Inc. Holly Ross. Social Change Activists. Georgia Popplewell. Maddie Grant.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

The money Jasmin will raised will be used to help 15 to 30 entrepreneurial poor (mainly women) to form a Trust Bank. Beth Kanter, BlogHer Editor for Social Change and Nonprofits, writes Beth's Blog.   (You can see an example of a slideshare (and some early contributions) here.)  They will co-guarantee each other???s

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NOVEMBER 20, 2006

As of today, contributors have helped me raise $381 towards the $750 goal. With everyone's help and support, I'm sure we'll reach our goal. Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. I also include some specific ways folks can help other give money. Ricardo Carreon.

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MARCH 24, 2015

million nonprofits in the US that are working in similar issue areas and trying to address global warming, poverty, the gender pay gap, affordable healthcare, education, etc. Women Who Tech wants to help change this. I’ve talked about the dire need for nonprofits to innovate over the years on Frogloop. Because there are over 1.5

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MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. The Global Fund for Women also has an online toolkit to help you host a house party.

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AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. I also have to say that having Chris's mom do such a fabulous job of time tracking helped me end on time (I wish we could clone her for every conference on the planet.) s very difficult to decide which to attend. How could I have waited so long to go.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2006

I have a lot of tree-planters to thank for the fruit I have eaten this year: my husband for being the best hubs ever , my parents for a lifetime of love, my friends for inspiring me, BlogHer and NetSquared for helping me make a living doing something I love (blogging!),

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FEBRUARY 18, 2008

We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The term "extra organizational activist" comes from Alison Fine's book Momentum and I first heard it back in September 2006 when I read the book and reviewed it over at Blogher.

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AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Do Good Well is written by Nathaniel Whittemore who is the founding director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University. Non-Profit Chas shares his experiences as he helps take a small non-profit organization to the next level.

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JULY 2, 2008

This year I've interviewed Christina Arnold of Prevent Human Trafficking, Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women, Anisha Desai of the Women of Color Resource Center, Janessa Goldbeck of Genocide Intervention Network, and Ari Derfel of Save Your Trash.

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AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) Issac Asimov once said, " Writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers."

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AUGUST 23, 2006

Global Warming. That’s why I started interviewing women (and men) for the Big Vision Podcast , and my Solutionary Women series on BlogHer who get up in the morning and have a big vision for a better world as their alarm clock. Election Fraud. Genetically-Modified Food.

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APRIL 13, 2008

Donna Callejon with kids in village in Guatemala - the houses, latrines, etc are being built partly with Global Giving support. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? I met Dennis Whittle, Global Giving's co-founder, at a social entrepreneurship conference in Geneva.

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JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. People became very fond of sunny and were motivated to do whatever they could to help.

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MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? I think it is also important to recognize that we have a community to stay accountable to, and they’ll help us to be accountable to ourselves.

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JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. We are focused on preparing individuals to eventually return to their home countries and to help rebuild, and that's human capacity building. How can they help? You started very young.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I thought, well, I don't think it's going to hurt me, and maybe it will help. She helps manage the team of volunteers that run the site. It has really helped me.

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APRIL 24, 2007

It basically links consumers, you and me, to third-world families, and through more direct trade helps those families get a fair price for their coffee, their tea, their bananas, whatever it is they produce. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Everyone goes to the store.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. It helped me write this post - " What Color is the Social Web? ". George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The Lil Bee blog also has 4 ways you can help animals in her post, The Perfect Valentine's Day Gift. Fox is hoping it will help some of the victims of the fires in Victoria. Check out what's available on Global Exchange's Fair Trade Store , and Original Good , World of Good 's line of Fair Trade products.

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