Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. What’s our role? Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is. Quite the opposite.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Think of it like this: In “Community-driven Social Impact,” the driving is up to the community; but you can act as the vehicle and event the map for those “drivers.” Lastly, you’ll want to identify what roles are needed. The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. No Short Cuts.

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

In the larger view of systemic change, storytelling takes on an even bigger role, where a well-told story creates a shared experience and helps illuminate all factors (root cause and symptomatic) that effect social change efforts at both global and local levels, creating a comprehensive, connected, “best practice” view of achieving progress.

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Storytelling Network Collaboration Classroom 63

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

For starters, Berkshire Bank is mapping our existing community investments to the SDGs, including employee volunteerism, so that we can identify which SDGs we’re already supporting and how we may be able to amplify our impact. Collaboration is at the heart of the SDGs and the reason why SDG #17 is partnership for the goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex. We created a network map.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

What this all means is that there is a unique and critical role for nonprofits and other social good organizations to play in the fourth industrial revolution. Is your partnership model one that embraces radical collaboration? What role can you play in helping the world embrace disruptive, yet responsible innovation?

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Industry Goal Trend Collaboration 20

NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline?

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Social Media Training Train Network 97

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Technology has an important role to play in solving the world’s biggest issues, but for trafficking in particular, technology is a foundational piece to solving the problem — for everything from tracking offenders to supporting the survivors who are critical to developing a more victim-centered solution. How are you combating trafficking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. Illustration by Beth Kanter. Begin Connections.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. All You Need is Love.

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Research Arizona Survey Fund 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

  The proximity of Hyde Park High School to the University of Chicago played a role in the way our   “movement” grew. 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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Facebook Illinois Learning Policy 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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Story Action Model Adopt 79

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. New school – David Stephenson kicked off the panel by highlighting the decline of the “managerial” role in control content. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. It also allowed the U.K.

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District of Columbia Management API DC 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning.

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models. Who had the power to write these rules?

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Design System Structure Ratio 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

And before even getting to the meat of the metrics, conceptual models, and ideas, the introduction provides a powerful case for using social media that is well articulated: For the first time in history, technology has reached a point where everyone has a voice. This is beginning resonates with online community roles in a way.

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Social Media Influence Meme Media 50

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. What your role is in that process and some things that you can be thinking about that can keep you doing the things that you do every day well, and share the responsibilities with some of the experts.

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Campaign Video Project Process 88

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. Collaboration. You need to involve folks with a variety of skills and roles in the organization to make BI work. You need IT folks who understand how data is structured, what queries are possible, how data modeling works. What about you?

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Business Gartner Data NTEN 54

Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A theory of change is a model that connects: the activities we do, to the outcomes they effect, to the impact we seek to create in the world.

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Process Change Develop Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds?

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. Of course, collaboration is tough work.

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Collaboration Project Data Lesson 80

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds?

Social Media 67

Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

So we used a mapping and communications workshop to layout a Theory of Impact and sequencing strategy to help them secure their first major core funder. In order to scale both their impact and their bottom line, we found an opportunity for them to pivot towards a business-to-business model rather than a direct service model.

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Problem Design Difference Impact 103

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. And, for me, the roles show up as who gets to have input. She’s the CEO over at Kishshana & Co.

Management 87

Management Work Video Slides 87

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

a collaborative effort, not just a single department or team’s responsibility. Helps people get tasks done: Digital platforms can be a toolkit that help users get things done by providing assets like models, datasets, ir even templates . Think of a digital platform as: . a toolkit, not a bookshelf .

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Platform Foundation Examples Digital 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

to shrink the role of government, non-profits may be expected to expand their programs as they step in to fill essential needs. The role of nonprofits may now become even greater – and deserving of greater scrutiny. Some of these groups are beginning to explore a collaboration.). With a national movement in the U.S.

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Data Impact Government Files 105

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And so do you have that sort of squared away on the roles and responsibilities and the processes? . And I want you to also look at logic model sample and a SOAR analysis because that could really kind of help you think through some of the priorities in the planning exercises. . So logic model, this is my tried and true.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Twitter South America North America Conversation 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. The key is breaking down the tasks into bite-size pieces and engaging crowds in the process. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

June urged us not to think narrowly about Network Weaving as a specific job description, but rather as a role. You extend networking weaving skills by using a peer learning model not a traditional training model. You don't hire someone to be a network weaver. You want to spread the capacity throughout the network."

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Network Practice Arts Facilitation 95

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Development directors who wear many hats, entry-level grant staff who don’t have much experience, and even program staff who get thrown into grant-writing roles. So I don’t know if any of these roles describe you, but feel free to throw in the chat what role you hold in your organization, and what your role in grant seeking is.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. All You Need is Love.

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Student Alternative Arizona Americorp 40

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. Finally, the data should be easily mapped to State Department data on entity in control of territory aid is rendered throughout the duration of the project. Vote for this Idea].

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 47

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And I got a lot of important insights and information when I was in that role. You’re going to see a big map of the U.S. Big map of the U.S. So what could be the role of your board when it comes to this kind of work? And that was that funders are collaborating so much more together than they ever have before.

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