Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

In a post from Amy Sample Ward last week, we let you know that many of our team would be parading down the peninsula to Mountain View, California to Microsoft's campus for a summit of great technologists, innovators, funders, practioners, corporate partners, librarians, and leaders all to talk about technology and social change.

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Global California Netsquared Sample 60

Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

The study draws on survey data from a sample of 400+ California youth aged 19–22 who were surveyed after the 2008 presidential election. “Both of these outcomes are good for democracy.&#. Over 200 of them were also surveyed during their junior or senior years of high school in 2006 and 2007.

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Activities Active Activism Internet 77

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Below is a sampling of benefits nonprofits can enjoy when they use a social-first digital fundraising strategy: Data collection : Digital technology not only helps donors learn about, connect and give to nonprofits; it provides a way for nonprofits to learn about and connect with donors themselves.

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Digital Technology Giving Arizona 52

NonProfit Hub

MAY 11, 2015

The first sample proposal is a mock example from the Grant Doctor , and proposes funding to raise awareness of breast cancer in Marin County, California. Check out this sample for a good basic structure. And that’s what matters. Breast Cancer Awareness Network.

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Proposal Grant Examples West Virginia 28

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. It will also provide you with a sample chart of accounts of my design and one called the "Unified Chart of Accounts," which was created by a number of major nonprofit support organizations. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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Chart Sample Method Classes 45

Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Note: Right now Range only includes 2013 data for California because the full list of 2014 summer meal sites is not yet available. Remember, it only includes sample data from 2013 right now, but 2014 data is coming soon! Stay tuned! The location of 2014 summer meals across the U.S. Download Range and try it out for yourself.

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Feeds Free Hunger Help 78

Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2015

Get Started with These Tips and Sample Telework Policies. Womans-work.com has a no-nonsense sample telework policy template , a telework application and screening questionnaire for employees, and a telework employee agreement.

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Work Management People Policy 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

I agree with Amy Sample Ward , who tweeted " I'm putting I know Holly Ross on my resume ". The NonProfit Times just announced its 2009 Power & Influence Top 50 , an annual list of the most influential nonprofit leaders in the sector. Holly Ross is on the list and it makes me so very happy to see Holly get the recognition she deserves!

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Director NTEN Influence California 50

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This sampling of funding opportunities available in their database shares both national and regional grant leads. It’s delivered monthly and is categorized by international, Canadian, Canadian Government, and Federal funding opportunities. Don’t forget to sign up for newsletters from funders that are on your radar.

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Grant Place Free Nonprofit 98

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In a wine-tasting experience, participants sample a variety of wines while evaluating them using criteria such as appearance, smell, and taste. In the United States, areas like Napa Valley in California and the Finger Lakes in New York are popular regions for wine experiences.

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Artist Classes Arts Local 73

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The idea goes back to 1995, when Alice Waters, the pioneer of the “slow food” movement and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant, created the first “edible schoolyard” in a vacant lot near the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California. A nice idea?

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Tucson Student Arizona Evaluation 40

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Here is just a sample of representative comments from survey respondents: We completely cut one program and seven staff positions and have placed another program on hold pending additional funding. Most times General Support is usable for overhead/administrative costs.

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Organization Survey Tutorial California 36

Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site. It will be held in San Jose, California from May 26-27. They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Case Study Netsquared Registration San Jose 43

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). The first step in the process of assessing these documents was a pilot project to sample them. The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting.

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Literacy San Jose Guatemala Bangladesh 100

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me.

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Fun San Francisco Classes Teach 56

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California.

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Game Community Impact Media 195

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2011

Over the past few weeks, we received over 250 applications from bloggers around the world – from California to Kenya, and from Mexico to Iraq. "We are so excited to announce the winners of the “Women Bloggers Deliver&# competition!

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Web Kenya Iraq Proposal 105

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

NetSquared is pleased to announce a new Partner Challenge with University of California at Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. This Challenge encourages innovations for mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy.

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Netsquared Challenge Mobile FAQ 100

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

." 4 Results from Crowdsource Experiment at #12NTC: Nerd, Geek and Gear Herding « Sage Words – "At the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) in San Francisco, California, we led a session called Nerd, Geek, and Gear Herding 2.0.

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Web San Francisco Bookmarking Search 117

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

are foreign-born immigrants, and 70% are concentrated in seven states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Arizona, and New Jersey. That means Hispanics' share of the nation's total population would nearly double, from 12.6% in 2000 to about 25% in 2050 (United States Census Bureau, 2004). About 40% of Hispanics in the U.S.

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United States Survey Dominican Republic Volunteer 71

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

#4Change was initially proposed by Tom Dawkins (@tomjd) in Washington DC who is joined by Todd Pitt (@zerostrategist - Washington DC), Morgan Sully (@memeshfit - Oakland, California), Natasha Judd (@tashjudd - London, England), Edward Harran (@edwardharran - Brisbane, Australia) and Vibewire (@vibewire - Sydney, Australia).

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Social Media Tools Australia Social 100

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

#4Change was initially proposed by Tom Dawkins (@tomjd) in Washington DC who is joined by Todd Pitt (@zerostrategist - Washington DC), Morgan Sully (@memeshfit - Oakland, California), Natasha Judd (@tashjudd - London, England), Edward Harran (@edwardharran - Brisbane, Australia) and Vibewire (@vibewire - Sydney, Australia).

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Conversation Australia New Zealand France 100

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view. It is being developed at the University of Southern California to help victims of stroke and traumatic brain injury. Image 5: Amy Sample Ward. The Obama administration means to make universal broadband happen, and it has just one year left to do it.

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Tech Change Mobile Images 36

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

While the above report is six years old and samples organizations in California, I am willing to bet that these statistics would still apply today and be generalized to communities-of- color-led organizations in other states. A third say more than 75% of their revenues come from foundations.

Community 20

Community Giving Work Strategy 20

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Oak Hill School of California Trivia Night Fundraiser. To raise more money, invite and charge your supporters a small entrance fee to come sample all the delicious bakes. Your nonprofit would then be responsible for promoting the event and recruiting teams. As a bonus, you can auction off or sell those extra pies for added revenue!

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Local 98

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

We have been fortunate that a nectar company in California, @Delprado, has now done 3 sponsorships One for @VTRelay for $1,400, one for 5 yr old boy & mom with cancer $3,200 and one for @Shannonleetweetd’s @RallyForKids $3,600. Since, we have let the sponsor choose whoever they would like as a cancer charity.

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Case Study Studies Cancer Free 152

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

When I moved from California to Washington DC in 1998 to be with my then-boyfriend, now-husband, I decided to start my own consulting company, which originally focused on writing for environmental groups, thus EcoScribe Communications was born.

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Interview Marketing Guide Attitude 140

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

When I told him - into a hall that held what remains of our old California History Hall - the kids protested loudly that the old Hall is one of their favorites. Each month, during our visitor intercept surveys, we ask a sample of 200 visitors whether they came to see anything in particular, and if so what.

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Los Angeles Museum History Artist 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. Here's a sample collaborator survey from our recent Poetry and Book Arts event. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum 55

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fundwriter further trains this AI using nonprofit-specific writing samples from websites to appeals to proposals to social posts. Appeal – Research Centered This appeal is trained on samples from research-related appeals, but it can work for any organization. To put it simply, Fundwriter.ai We are all in this fight.

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We’ll be in California in January, we just left. So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water. Sample metrics. ” A couple of samples here for you, and I know we’re tracking along. so this is a sample donor-impact report and this is pretty much just the quantitative data. Ask “So what?”

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Report Measure Impact Process 78

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Aashika, the founder and executive director, starting learning about and looking for ways to support the community of survivors when she was studying Anthropology and Political Science at University of California, Berkeley: “When I was in college, I learned of a labor/sex trafficking case right across from my dorm.

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Collaboration Technology Impact North America 179

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast. This is just a sampling. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. It reminds of the thread on trust and knowing people that we got into after Andy Carvin's talk.

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Community Blogher Boston Conference 91

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong is joining us from beautiful California by way of South Dakota in her background. But don’t do that right now because we got a friend of the program joining us once again. Julie, how’s it going? You doing okay? Julie: I am great. I love it. And so accuracy, kind of go with your gut too.

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Community Video Slides Survey 76

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Here is a sampling of just some of the research linking different forms of generosity to better health. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” ” — Chinese proverb.

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Giving Brain Philanthropy Oman 125

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Happy new year!

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Celebrate News Technology Nonprofit 90

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. You’ll see the ones that I’ve written that have been funded so that you can use those as models or samples for your work as well. Now, when you look at those numbers, it’s simply unacceptable.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 97