Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. The story in the San Francisco Chronicle says the new gift cards are available in Safeway and Vons supermarkets in California in denominations of $25 and $30."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

” Greetings from shelter in place California! You simply can’t obsess about every news report or the worst possible outcomes. Packard Foundation OE staff hosted a birthday party on Zoom. One thing our family did was adopt a senior dog from Muttville, a local animal rescue. 4 New Workplace Norms for Meetings

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

By highlighting a combined focus on improving the aesthetic beauty of their local S-Line while also fighting against food insecurity, this campaign created a sophisticated connection between donors and the cause itself. What you can learn : Create a cohesive story about what GivingTuesday campaign donations will fund.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. I was assigned to the art school to track art classes and enrollments, and to work on reporting and making sure records were polished and current. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas! I recommend Candid highly.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For this fundraising event, you’ll need to team up with a local paint and sip store like Pinot’s Palette or Painting with a Twist that’s willing to paint it forward with a percentage of the night’s proceeds going to your cause. Oak Hill School of California Trivia Night Fundraiser. You can go one of two ways here. No-Shave November.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Knight Foundation, our SocialCoding4Good initiative will kick off later this year. CityOptions is an environmental initiative to help local governments—particularly small and mid-sized ones—plan and execute effective sustainability initiatives. and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The nonprofit Bridgespan Group did a special post-recession report on overcoming the resource gap in rural funding. The gap is especially clear in private foundation giving. However, Cynthia Adams presented some interesting numbers showing that private foundation grants are not the entire picture.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Piper Trust funded an expansion of the Encore Fellowships program that originated in California. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools. ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The Washington, DC-based housing nonprofit, One Economy Corporation , gamely took on this big ambitious project to get it going and secured two $3 million grants, one from the Knight Foundation and the other by the Carlos Slim Foundation. Commerce Department report, A Nation Online , we know the reality is very different.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. We’ll be in California in January, we just left. So we’re going to dive in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. We convened 40 of these practitioners in California at the Packard Foundation last month – all based in CA, all working in networks (as “backbone” network leaders, or as consultants) – and there was a huge appetite for conversation and learning around this practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. Democracy happens at a local level still, so we still need that kind of civic, local reporting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. As Hersman says , "Sometimes there is just nothing more you can do than report what you see." Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. She has vast international experience since she was born in El Salvador and has lived in California, Arkansas, Mexico, Guatemala, and Arizona while also traveling to several other countries. posted by Karina Lungo , Research Aide, ASU Lodestar Center. As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Last Friday, Mobile Active reported on the Sunday???s The program is made possible through a partnership of the National Football League , Mobile Accord , United Way, and the Mobile Giving Foundation , and supported by VeriSign. s Super Bowl launch of a United Way fund-raising campaign using mobile phone text messaging.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Some that volunteered asked a local restaurant to host and give them a portion of the cover charge or bar sales that night to donate back to CC. CC also reported a significantly increased web presence and that it had engaged a much different constituency of young donors that the organization had not seen before—great potential for the future.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Of course, the MacArthur people make a big deal out of the lack of obligation or reporting ("you'll never have to talk to us again," said Daniel Socolow, the head of the program). My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). But, I don't feel that way!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Except one: The California Condor. The California Condor is the sole surviving member of the Gymnogyps genus, a castaway from the Pleistocene epoch. The California Condor Recovery Program continues today, over 25 years since its inception. It’s the largest flying bird in North America. A puppet feeds a condor chick.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2018

Nearly 20,000 residents have been asked to evacuate their homes in Northern California as a result of the multiple wildfires that have been burning for weeks, and CNBC has reported that more than 16,000 homes have been threatened by potential damage from the wildfire at this point, leading to evacuation orders for nearly 25,000 residents.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

In fact, 73% of people report they’re more likely to be repeat customers if a for-profit brand offers personalized experiences. Almost half of the consumers who marked an opt-in message as spam reported doing so because they were emailed too frequently by the organization. While that’s better than retail, it’s still pretty low.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Online Video Service recently webcast a customers event via satellite from a submerged oil platform off the coast of California. For instance, the American Lung Association of California has set the bar for consistently using online video as a key part of its communications. Or it can be the primary focus of a marketing campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Developed by Caravan Studios , a project developed by TechSoup’s Marnie Webb and funded by Microsoft and others, the app is currently being piloted by domestic violence shelters in four local communities, including Tehama County. Be sure to check out the annual report (page 24-33, but be sure to see page 29).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Heather McLeod-Grant has written up an important lessons learned report about the project and summarized they key findings in the guest post below. The foundation’s hope is that this program can serve as a model to all nonprofits and funders seeking to work in more networked ways. Lessons from the Pioneers in Justice Program.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But I also was director of a large family foundation. And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. What it means is there are 100,000 grant-making foundations out there right now in the U.S. These are the private foundations that you can access, 100,000 of those.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The Sunlight Foundation , a nonpartisan nonprofit, has a Real-Time Federal Campaign Finance page. On a local scale, our neighbors at OpenOakland are exposing the campaign finances of Oakland mayoral candidates. The finance data was self-reported by all Oakland mayoral candidate controlled committees.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. Daniel has also taught journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2009, he became an Ashoka Foundation senior fellow for his work as a leading social entrepreneur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. The relationships that were built were on a foundation of such mutual respect because, as these women looked at each other from such different lives, they saw the offerings they had for each other and their leadership as women.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Nevertheless, when the software consistently reports a mismatch, a driver can be summarily dismissed. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

To celebrate the first day, and hopefully prevent the recurrence of the second, here is an e-interview with Rae Abileah, the Local Groups Coordinator of CODEPINK. What do you do as the Local Groups Coordinator? Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War.

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