Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? And in each local place, people are on different types of social media, some of which are global in scope. Social media makes that much easier.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are definitely times when community building and even campaigning or organizing feels just like that! I wanted to share the short “defense&# of Community Managers that I wrote to get your feedback as well as to gather your ideas, examples and so on of why Community Managers are important to our work!

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Smaller, place-based foundations are managed by individuals with deep ties to the community. Oftentimes, local government agencies and other funding organizations like United Way participate.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

An expert on branding startups, executive leadership, governance, and more, Allison has deep roots in the association community. She’s also the author of two books, “Building Your Brand” and “Connect to Influence.” “The million community members have been reached with information, skills, and services.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Unfortunately, it continues to rise, spreading from national news down to the local level at an alarming rate. The good news is that smart people are working to identify ways that newsrooms and individual journalists can stem the decline and build trust within their communities.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

In turn, they’ll benefit from the positive association with your cause and can expand their own reach within your nonprofit’s community of supporters. For example, an animal welfare organization might run an awareness campaign to bring attention to pet overpopulation in the community, which is leading to more abandoned pets in the shelters.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

At Salesforce.org, we are proud to see how much of our community — whether it’s our employees, our partners, or the nonprofits we support — is jumping in through funding, advocacy, or volunteering. Mission: Improving air quality through community partnerships. Plant-for-the-Planet’s projects are highly local, with global impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. Students have the chance to present the workshops’ findings to the global citizen science community and take part in the WEF’s programming.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely on the commitment and active engagement of their board members to make a significant impact in their communities. Engaging in conversations with prospective donors and sharing the impact of the nonprofit’s work is a crucial step in building relationships and attracting vital resources.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover three things you can do to express your faith through your work: Be transparent Integrate Christian values Foster a strong community of support The values associated with charitable work and community service generally align with the values of the Christian faith.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It can also give chapters access to data that they can use to improve their local member engagement. If local chapters are running successful programs, your national office and other chapters can follow their lead. If local chapters are running successful programs, your national office and other chapters can follow their lead.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

Grantmakers and nonprofit leaders should take this into consideration when engaging with their team and the communities they serve. How can your organization connect with local women’s networks to reach more women and grow your donor base? Our research shows that 70% of giving circles have a majority-women membership.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

By creating opportunities for engagement, the nonprofit sector is responsible for building cohesion and social capital. He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As they develop community benefit programs to address health disparities and elevate community well-being, co-investment with like-minded partners helps drive greater impact. Community benefit managers and C-suite leaders alike struggle with questions: Where do we start? Remember to include community-based experts.

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Classy

MAY 31, 2021

Recurring gifts provide your nonprofit with consistent revenue during uncertain economic times and build lasting relationships with donors. Your organization, then, needs to decide which type of recurring giving program or strategy is best tailored for your community and would incentivize these recurring donations. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the vast landscape of nonprofit operations, volunteers are the unsung heroes who fuel the engine of change and community service. Each has a unique reason to volunteer—whether it’s for personal growth, community engagement, or a heartfelt connection to your cause. Why should someone dedicate their time to your cause?

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

What are some strategies for giving nonprofit volunteers a great experience and building your program? Volunteers self-selecting into text banking, phone banking, social media, community mobilization, and/or storytelling. The Planned Parenthood team has built a community that they nurture with content and skills.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

We’re acknowledging eight nonprofits leading the charge with dedicated fundraising campaigns as communities unite to support a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable planet. Earth Day Climate Action encourages everyone and anyone to celebrate Earth Day by becoming a steward of their local state park. Instagram: @energyleaders.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Acquire Tickets: Purchase rolls of double raffle tickets from your local office supply store. Bidding Site Setup: Configure your bidding site to facilitate electronic raffle ticket sales. Promoting Raffle Tickets: Building Anticipation Building anticipation is crucial for a success. To learn more, visit Storefront.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Embracing a long-term view of these practices not only unlocks your nonprofit’s growth potential, but also builds and reveals your own professional aptitude for organizational leadership. The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities? Be able to state the relevant needs of your community and how your nonprofit is addressing them.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers help nonprofits connect with the community. There are likely a number of interested parties in your community that want to make the world a better place. For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. Collaborate with local businesses.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Bringing these different communities together in the same space might not have created safe space for the true issues of each group to emerge.

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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

Encourage Employee Matched Giving Campaigns as a Remote Team Building Exercise. They’ll get a remote-friendly team building activity that also counts as a charitable deduction, and you’ll encourage increased contributions to your organization; it’s win-win-win. Seek Out and Promote Local Partnerships. By 2025, 36.2

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2022

As the students learn more about the SDGs, they learn more about their community and the impact of sustainability on it. With Davos Codes, we wanted to create a program that didn’t just educate students and their communities about the goals, but really demonstrated how they could personally commit to them. Creating Lasting Change.

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CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

And we couldn’t think of a better organization to highlight than Spur Local. Spur Local blew it out of the water last year with their Give Local Together Campaign. About Spur Local Spur Local (formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy), is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities in the Greater Washington region.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Building local chapters.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. Wish You Well Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. We co-created it from start to finish with community partners. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. Short story: we learned a lot.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Outbound campaigns can include email promotions, digital ads, and printed collateral that you might hang up at local businesses related to walk/bike/ride events (like athletic shoe stores or bike shops). Plus, this type of event offers your organization ample time for one-on-one conversations and relationship-building.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Communities posted by Hannah Humphrey , Public Allies Arizona Alumna / Outreach Coordinator, Xico What does it mean to be a community organization? Nonprofit professionals use the word "community" a lot.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

We support children and their families from pregnancy to early childhood through to adolescence, and many live in some of the world’s most rural, vulnerable, and remote communities. Now, we are using our 75-year history and expertise to reach every community with COVID-19 vaccines. Store & Deliver Vaccines to Remote Communities.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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