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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Cloud-based applications are more secure from cyberthreats than a typical nonprofit server environment is. We must track and communicate well with our donors, members, and volunteers — really anyone who interacts with our organizations, including press and partner organizations. Benefit #3: Security. No programming necessary.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Thinking about things alone is one thing, but being a pretty typical collaborative type of nonprofit we pulled in the New Sector Alliance and some UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business volunteers to really help us think through this. Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). As Streb explains, "SLAM is an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community institution.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For organizations with scattered or disarrayed IT environments, it's amazing how different your tech infrastructure can look after you've spent some time documenting it. Collaboration and Productivity: Spend More Time on What Matters. She's great. Build up from the ground, not down from the sky.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For organizations with scattered or disarrayed IT environments, it's amazing how different your tech infrastructure can look after you've spent some time documenting it. Collaboration and Productivity: Spend More Time on What Matters. She's great. Build up from the ground, not down from the sky.

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Technology Phase Laptop Tech 54

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

On January 31st, the social web erupted with status updates, images, and more in response to the Associated Press report that the Susan G. Finding the messaging middle ground in a fast changing environment was very challenging. An interesting model to use for comparison is Occupy Wall Street. It turned out not to be the case.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. During our recent campaign to recruit new team members, Benetech has attracted qualified candidates by offering more than just good pay and a pleasant work environment. We've just launched Miradi.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Because those communications people need to really collaborate well with their colleagues in the development team and the programs team, you know, throughout your organization. Earned media is when you get press or coverage by somebody else. People people. I think it gets talked about sort of around the edges sometimes.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And that was that funders are collaborating so much more together than they ever have before. Don’t hide any bad press or challenges that your organization is facing. I share with you budget templates, grant application templates, logic models, letters of inquiry that we just talked about. That’s often helpful.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Foundations are scrambling to award grants faster, and nonprofits are pressing to eliminate all non-value-added activity. Values such as power-sharing, equity, and collaboration are at the heart of these ideas, and they provide a framework for enhancing agility, reducing burden, and simplifying the funding process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

And so I thought well, it seems like if we're going to actually change the human patterns that are so severely impacting our environment and communities around the world, maybe there are some other ways to do it. They are to varying degrees of important events at different corporations, but CitiGroups is actually quite a celebrated event.

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