Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report. You can find the original post and the community there. —– I love my community. Regardless of whether I feel like, or am trying to be, a community builder, the community always provides opportunities for others to join me. But, it ain’t easy.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Set criteria for contacts, proposals, planning, and forecasting. For example, you may want to measure total visits, the number of proposals submitted, the dollars raised, and first-time or qualification visits. Encourage collaboration by allowing for joint credit for solicitations and visits. Clarify roles and responsibilities.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We are proposing a new entity that would work iteratively over time to fulfill four main purposes: 1. We must find ways to collaboratively and creatively address the nonprofit information security gap as a community. We need collaboration with such organizations as TechSoup, NTEN, ISSA, SANS, State, and Federal Governments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. We plan to repeat every September to honor Hunger Action Month.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In a recent blog post , Ed explains why growth markets are key to this proposed merger of two of the publishing world’s biggest players. Random House Mondadori is the first Spanish publisher to partner with us and its support of the Bookshare community sends a great signal to the other Spanish publishers we have approached.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. ” The members don’t necessarily develop powerful relationships and collaborations. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

Biggar, who founded and leads Leadnow , garnered the most votes from the NTEN community, from among a formidable pool of finalists. It launched with distributed house-parties to set its direction, and it has organized one of the largest distributed protests in Canadian history to protest dangerous pipeline proposals.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

This weekend, the winners were announced in the Chase Community Challenge. Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. The Chase Community Challenge started with an open nomination round. Community insight and transparency is wonderful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

But, are proposal based approaches good for finding people who are going to start new things? We do this through scouting and in the weekends as they are high pressure and fund and collaborative so you can really, really see how people work. Finally, a lot of new ideas, the newness is the business model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

This weekend, the winners were announced in the Chase Community Challenge. Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. The Chase Community Challenge started with an open nomination round. Community insight and transparency is wonderful.

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Contest Charity Childhood Nonprofit 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Community Foundations were thrown into crisis mode as the amount of time the server was down went from minutes into hours.

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America San Antonio Local Philanthropy 50

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring fundraising success is more important than ever and our team at Blackbaud is monitoring the latest trends coming out of our Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management community to help our customers stay relevant and innovative. . Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. Nonprofits are preoccupied with writing what the funder wants to read or hear, and foundations are compliant with proposal templates that change little over years or even decades.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why Community? So, why community? That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement.

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fusionSpan

MAY 10, 2024

Meanwhile, the recently released outcome management features allow nonprofits to define strategic indicators, set program goals, and measure real-time community impact. Nonprofits with fewer than 250 users can access Slack’s premium features at no cost, fostering real-time communication, knowledge sharing, and seamless teamwork.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

   Occasionally we joined with them for larger conferences, but we focused on building awareness within our own communities. Our organization, which Quentin founded in 1981 with John McKnight, used to write long policy papers,  really meaty 50 page documents that were read by no more than 50 of our collaborative partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ).

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

in communities across the country? guidance for any federal agency that uses social media services to collaborate and communicate among employees, partners, other federal agencies, and the public.? and proposes the creation of an overarching government wide policy on social media. tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good. Accounting / @nysscpa.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. The proposal to Metlife was all video.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. We’re not essential parts of every community. But I also recognize where we’re falling short.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This is going to be a real treat for the community. Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. And finally, you know, what do we want the community to do when they see and read this impact report?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And so maybe trying to reduce that so nonprofits can do the work that they are really good at and really being assets in the community is critical. And if you’re not familiar with those, you can take a look at that within your community. So logic model, this is my tried and true. I love this logic model.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Data Warehouse Architect should have extensive knowledge of designing and implementing off-platform data solutions for customers with Salesforce.com Sales, Service, Community, Nonprofit, and Education Clouds. The Data Warehouse Architect will have experience with common nonprofit and education off-platform storage use-cases.

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Canada Data API Skills 40

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. ” Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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