Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Sustainable product and solid support from a nonprofit specialist. The details of your emails are critical. What is your real output?

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APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. Cross-posted from BlogHer. If you seize these moments -- if you make a bold decision to take action-- a different world-- a better world-- is within reach.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

The Fund supports organizations that are using "inner work" to inform their activism. Kellogg Foundation angel Kyodo williams, Director, Seeds of Justice Fund What kind of projects is the Fund supporting and how are they selected? Seasons Fund supports work that is transformative at the personal, organizational and field-wide levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. What's the most important thing for people in my generation who work with nonprofits to help support you? Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. " I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

BlogHers Act is a year-long initiative in which members of BlogHer , both on BlogHer???s BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to improving Global Health: 1. BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to improving Global Health: 1. signatures, votes, donations, letters, live births, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

This panel will explore and discuss the impact of tools like Twitter, Qik, Utterz, Ustream, and more on current and future elections. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. How can you leverage your existing online supporters? With snacks! How should nonprofits plan for staffing and growth?

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JUNE 19, 2009

What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. Losing some, a lot of fundraising in the process, but gaining more than we could ever have imagined in impact and long term change. It's the same thing in a development context.

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APRIL 24, 2007

So arguably, through the Fair Trade coffee that they offer in their stores, which is called Cafe Estima, they're impacting the lives of tens of thousands of farmers in Latin America and in Africa, at a time when those farmers really need our help. Starbucks has become one of the top volume sellers of Fair Trade coffee in the country.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

I gave my first gift that morning, which was just a supportive phone call to another friend who has MS. Create something to tell us what kind of impact this has had for you, and share it with the community because those stories and artwork that people are sharing are what are inspiring people to sign up, and keep this movement growing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. What nonprofit wasn't impacted by post 9/11 scrutiny? that, even if we can't always provide the desired answer, engaging in the right way at the right time is having an immediate impact. The question.

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JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. I think it’s the fact that we really get to see the impact we make. It’s amazing!

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FEBRUARY 9, 2007

t until I was in my twenties that I fully realized and appreciated what an impact he has had on not only who I am but also what I do for a living. Should there ever be a disaster (god forbid), how could a blogging network like BlogHer be of assistance? You've been in the emergency management field for 15 plus years. Since then I???ve

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? I wrote a few suggestions for how to figure out how you want to create change in my post, How Can You Make An Impact? including finding a small group of people to support you in your process. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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JUNE 30, 2007

How's that going to impact our work next year? And if you want to know who any of those women that you didn't recognize their names are, definitely come grab me after at the reception because they're incredible women who have impacted our world. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. We are a 3.5

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