Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. Nonprofits: What if you created a digital annual report that walked viewers through your service area, giving them a tour of your work and impact?

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Storytelling Digital Tools Classroom 201

Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To show impact. Use email to communicate their impact by noting how many funds were raised and what specific projects or initiatives they’ll push forward. Including these elements will strengthen your supporter relationships by showing you care about them and want to celebrate their impact. To provide highlights. Media elements.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

School Auction Fundraising is a powerful tool for for that helps both public and private schools reach their goals and increase their impact. A mystery cooler or backpack where the contents are kept secret. Landscaping service: Winner receives a few hours of a project done on their property.

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Fundraising Sponsor Tips Classroom 52

Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

In the process, these volunteers serve as role models helping positively shape young people’s perceptions about the importance of education, as well as critical life skills. Adding detailed directions and fun images to your event homepage is one of the best ways to make your donors feel valued.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the process, these volunteers serve as role models helping positively shape young people’s perceptions about the importance of education, as well as critical life skills. Adding detailed directions and fun images to your event homepage is one of the best ways to make your donors feel valued.

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Social Media Media Help Ideas 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. That’s what’s been on my mind lately. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people?

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. Learning Styles. With new media comes challenges. Professional Drive.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. The IMPACT Conference. Jan 23 -27.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Curiosity got the better of me, and that’s how I met Bob Whicker, a K-12 Education Development Executive for Apple.

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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. So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. What is impact?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

One CVA who organizes volunteers in the Dallas metro area lamented the impacts of COVID-19 on their operations. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. But now we are limping along.

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Accessibility Technology Language Oregon 100

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Those dreams had so much of an impact that McDonald and her husband ended up selling all of their belongings to go to Haiti and help rebuild the country. Her purpose would be discovered while visiting classrooms. While there, McDonald noticed that many classrooms had only a stack of books to share between hundreds of children.

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Haiti Library Classroom Literacy 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

Not matter what we call them, we are only just beginning to understand Gen Z and their impact on society as well as the implications for nonprofits. They are not content to just sit and click. They have also been described as the first tribe of digital natives, screenagers, and digital integrators.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

The challenge – how do companies create meaningful volunteer opportunities for their global employees that engage, connect , and create impact? For more on Common Impact’s approach leveraging skilled volunteering in moments of crisis, check out Disaster Response: From Relief to Resiliency *Center for Disaster Philanthropy .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. I have different color codes for different types of work that also correspond with color codes on my google calendar and my hard drive/google drive files. Year in Review.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. The goal is to get everyone comfortable, thinking about the content, and ready to enhance their preexisting knowledge.

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Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Of course, a client or member’s first-person account of change is also a terrific educational tool. Outside of that one big-picture item, much of the rest of the content can focus on any topics that reqire board decisions or strategic input. The big picture. Decision points. Yet, it’s one worth investing some time.

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DC Government Nonprofit Classroom 40

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Not matter what we call them, we are only just beginning to understand Gen Z and their impact on society as well as the implications for nonprofits. They are not content to just sit and click. They have also been described as the first tribe of digital natives, screenagers and digital integrators. And they are already blowing us away.

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Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. On the other end of the spectrum, there are uses of technology to create unique "co-create" opportunities, if not open opportunities, where content can be made available through APIs and syndication for others to use. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. Social Networking. Mobile Phones.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Throughout this, one thing has remained constant: our commitment to partnering with mission-driven organizations to create solutions and work that amplify their impact. While making an impact always comes first, each of these awards is a great honor for these fantastic organizations and our Forum One team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Throughout this, one thing has remained constant: our commitment to partnering with clients to create solutions and work that amplifies their impact. This long-standing client and Forum One team won two awards this year and is a great example of the impact that can be made when great teams come together to collaborate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. How do those learning environments impact institutions? Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. This could be environmental issues, education, or arts. However, many guests are drawn to attend because they want to contribute to your impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

How will these trends impact nptech? I rounded up some other resources here and the Shaping Youth Blog did a roundup post with huge pile of green geek, recyclying, and youth education links. Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. How was it organized?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We want to ensure that every student with a disability no longer has the handicap of lacking textbooks or other important educational material.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

During my study and practice of elementary education, there was a drive to create experiences where learning was driven intrinsically. As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

That organization is Learning to Give , a nonprofit that works, through K-12 teachers, to “spark students to learn and act for good” by providing more than 1,700 lesson plans designed to both inspire and equip students to use their hearts and minds to impact the world.

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Teach Celebrate Giving Classroom 20

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We encourage our readers to review each and vote on the ones that they think can make the biggest impact. Advancing students would be granted a paid summer internship at the Department of State ensuring that the reward is linked to both their educational and professional development. A select group of these ideas are provided below.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Some interactions, like educational programs, may be quite expensive per visitor but are considered very high value; others, like retail, are only worthwhile if the interactions are cheap and return financial value to the institution. Others send educators out to schools citywide. Let's look at these one by one.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Now, NYSCI is experimenting in a new medium, with a very tough and adult content focus. I sat down with Eric Siegel, NYSCI’s Director and Chief Content Officer, to learn more about False Conviction. If there was a way to engage these deep emotions in the context of science museums, then there is an opportunity to expand our impact.

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