Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

.&# We’re trying to level the playing field by empowering individuals to change the world.&#. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. How can communities communicate and demand technologies take the lead from them?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

.&# We’re trying to level the playing field by empowering individuals to change the world.&#. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. How can communities communicate and demand technologies take the lead from them?

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country. The UN Global Report is also using Facebook Messenger bots to engage young people around different issues. Empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. I am honored to be an advisor to WAKE, whose mission is to amplify the work of women leading change globally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Are you using social media primarily to raise money? To foster social good and create social change? Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. To secure new volunteers? Tell your boss that.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Each year, Mama Cash supports over 100 women’s, girls’, trans and intersex rights groups that are working to change the world. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Each year, Mama Cash supports over 100 women’s, girls’, trans and intersex rights groups that are working to change the world. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Events like GivingTuesday are helping condition people to give online and raise awareness about the importance of giving. Data is becoming more and more transparent and that is changing the world.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most major change doesn't happen when things are going well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Each card is unique.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The behavior of people is hard to change and can take time – usually more time than you’d like. In the first year alone, the project’s activation occurred in 300 restaurants and raised more than $100,000 to help provide clean drinking water to people in developing countries. This type of rhetoric doesn’t tend to work well with donors.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

have changed. Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. Last year, our board and staff came together to develop a “theory of change” that connects the activities we do to the impact we seek. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Given the quantity of organizations, and the enormity of the issues we're faced with today, five qualities are important when designing an action: 1. Many people feel like they can't change issues like the genocide in Darfur, they feel too big. Darfur activism philanthropy advocacy social change Make it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social Change Behind the FireWall submitted by Holly Ross Successful nonprofits using social media are masters of social change behind the firewall. Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They can create the change makers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. The public safety issue is huge.

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Givinga’s workplace giving software allows employees to create their own personal giving accounts, choose the charities they want to support, easily request a matching gift from your company, and raise funds from family and friends. That’s a distinct change from the past market. Is your program engaging employees?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

A recent series of studies by psychologists provides the research that proves it -- they have found that fund-raising appeals do best when they are crafted around a single gripping image. So, you can imagine my delight in discovering this fabulous photography site called Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

But, this wasn’t a just a tourist trip, I was on a mission to see technology social change projects in action and better understand how technology can impact social on the ground in rural areas with limited connectivity and resources. A man came to the Remand House looking for his son and wife, who had apparently run away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Meet Karen Bloom who is Chief Advancement Officer for Project Kesher , an organization that trains women to become change-makers across 9 time zones, with leadership programs that are based on Jewish identity building and social activism. She is a nonprofit senior staffer who knows the value of walking at work.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Ephraim Gopin moderates a panel of nonprofit pros – Mimosa Kabir, Sarah Willey, and Lisa Chmiola – to look at the issue of being laid off and ask: what next? So I was at a university and in the early part of the pandemic, the university was hit hard by just the economic changes that were happening in the country and in our state.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Can you give an example of, "This month the charity was this and those circles combined raised x amount?" The Somaly Mam organization focuses on rehabilitation for girls who are victims of sex trafficking, and that's a really, really tough issue, but really important. Britt Bravo: How many circles are there now?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I raised a lot of money. We raised around $60,000 doing very little. It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. 20,000 is a lot of money to raise.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. For Giving Tuesday this year we’re focusing on raising money to build a new water purification unit at a girls' middle school in Gaza.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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