Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as GlobalGiving and Facebook Causes. She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

VolunteerMatch is an award-winning service that makes it easy for good people and good causes to connect – and now their iPhone app makes it even easier. Kiva :: Download. VolunteerMatch :: Download. App Name: VolunteerMatch. Released: March 9, 2010. Search 60,000 open volunteer opportunities to find the perfect one for you.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

– "Nothing would have pleased my group more than finding a way for technology to advance the cause of poverty alleviation. ." Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty? The book is packed with case studies from nonprofits and how they are leveraging the power of social media to do something good.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

From gaming to storytelling, these apps make supporting a cause entertaining and interactive. Windows Phone) brings your Kiva portfolio to your Windows phone. You can click on a worthy cause of your choice to learn how to donate via your mobile phone. Apps that Incorporate Fundraising. Charity Miles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there is a schwag recycling room , I participate. I loved what he said about Premal Shah - that he wanted to apply for a job at Kiva after hearing him speak. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning. I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The social side of giving : ow various organisations, from Justgiving to Virgin Money Giving, have made it easier to organise online donations, while new charities like Help4Heroes and Kiva have shown how it's possible to use the web to promote a cause and get funds flowing rapidly and efficiently. BBC News - Charity 2.0:

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Other nonprofits, including Good360, Kiva, and the San Francisco SPCA, have all adopted NetSuite. If you want to start an e-commerce site like an online storefront to raise money for your cause, or if you already manage one, NetSuite can help. With NetSuite, you can automate your most common processes, saving time and money.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

They collect ways for you to get involved in the causes you care about from 30+ action sources like Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch. Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! He contributed to the Facebook Cause and also to Global Giving page if that icon below is you Adam. He knows a good investment in the developing world. That's Adam Nicholson. 51 isn't sounding so darn bad either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

Nonprofit organizations will be able to use LinkedIn as a platform for involving the LinkedIn community with their causes, leveraging the 11 million users that are present within the online community. British rockstar James Blunt is already using LinkedIn to raise over $23,000 for Doctors Without Borders. hat tip, Dave B.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Facebook's Gift Shop Sings A New Tune - washingtonpost.com: "While you can currently purchase gifts from non-profits, like Kiva, Project Red, TOMS Shoes, Charity Water and the World Wildlife Fund, Facebook is now also including gifts via the Causes application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Allan Benamer, of the nonprofittechblog , gives us an answer: The three biggest success stories so far are modestneeds.org, globalgiving.com and Kiva. The biggest nonprofit social network is Project Agape's Causes with 4,000,000 users and counting. None of those three are social networking properties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as Global Giving and Facebook Causes. You won’t see marketing flackery here.)

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

annanten : social media is here to help you empower your followers with a story to create powerful activists for your cause. annanten : @engagejoe online campaigning = (relationship building + storytelling) * shared cause ^ common goal. making it about the cause, not the org(s) that’s coordinating it. Both important.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Crowdfunding involves a large number of people funding a program, project, or cause. Donors have multiple options in crowdfunding platforms: Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Kiva, Crowdrise, GiveEffect — and this list is growing fast. Crowdfunding and Generational Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

leave a comment and come to SXSW in March to join the debate with Jacob Colker (Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries ), Premal Shah (President of Kiva ) and Jason Cooper (Online Coordinator at Kaboom.org ). Help us out and vote for our panel “Can Double-Clicking Change The World? Slacktivism 101?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? This vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. Submitted by Gradon Tripp. By Skylar Woodward.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2008

It isn't difficult for me to care and want to help a cause, or an individual entrepreneur on Kiva , or a reader who emails me for advice. I came to realize that, at least for me, the most difficult thing to give away sometimes is compassion for individuals I encounter in every day life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

What are the best practices for using a YouTube Nonprofit Channel to promote your cause? The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. What are the 5 things should get into place while you are waiting for your YouTube Nonprofit Channel to be approved? Go vote here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

I was particularly moved by an interview with one Stanley Hotel resident, a heroin addict, who said, "I wish people had a better understanding of the kind of people we are, 'cause we're not animals, and we're not contagious. It's just really hard. I don't know why they look at us the way they do."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? This vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. Submitted by Gradon Tripp. By Skylar Woodward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

And it might be inciting new forms from familiar ones—new roles for community foundations or new services from donor advised fund vendors.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Kiva breaks it. Causes on Facebook breaks it. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. Room to Read breaks it. GlobalGiving breaks it. GOOD magazine breaks it. Care2 breaks it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

This platform lets consumers promote the brands they like and SocialVibes donates money to charitable causes or as Read/Write Web defined as "is an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity." " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? This vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national advocacy organizations. Submitted by Ted Fickes. Submitted by Gradon Tripp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I am all for equipping believers of a cause to go out to the world and do good.but I am less enthusiastic of sending out a swarm of independent mavericks. Kiva , charity:water and a few others were mentioned. Especially if the people in the orchestra have been playing together for years! Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Jon Stahl speculates about how nonprofit technology providers cause the anxiety versus alleviate it. Nonprofits are still struggling to answer to the "What it is and why it matters" questions. Early reactions to the report are in from a few who work in the nonprofit technology field. David Geilhufe says productize !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale. That’s not good a good sign — cause he’s definitely trying to sell something, and this customer doesn’t know what it is. I must admit I didn’t read every word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause? New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan. Katya Andresen has an entertaining post about Bourbon and extracts some lessons in nonprofit marketing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Passion for a cause. For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. Here are my picks for the Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006 (in alphabetical order). Emotional connection.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

And while Pete Cashmore announced that he would be doing a charity event in September around his 24th birthday, I'm wondering what charity wedding registry Sharon and Adam will register with? ( Kiva ?) Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered the opening keynote. Randi suggests that having a personality is an asset. Was it all hype? .

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

It didn't matter whether gifts of money and time went to churches or symphony orchestras — givers to all types of religious and secular causes were far happier than non-givers." Money: If you want to search by issue for a cause to support, Network for Good and Global Giving are two places to start. I'm a big fan of Kiva too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

I choose nonprofits that in my mind have excelled at social media throughout the previous year and represent causes that I feel are timely for the coming year. Empower entrepreneurs at the grassroots to start micro-enterprises: @ Kiva , @ DarfurStoves. Every January Nonprofit Tech 2.0 The selection process is a personal one.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

Will it someday play a useful role in engaging nonprofit members or donors in the work of the causes they support? I also think there are a lot of lessons to be learned from sites like Kiva, where the concept of micro-designation really resonate with donors and could only easily be achieved online. Will social networking evolve?

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