Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Interoperability Made Real: Open Referral’s Data Standard for Resource Directories Visionlink is dedicated to data standards and data exchange as a necessary part of supporting successful communities. In the community services market, we have converted, migrated, and exchanged more data than any other provider.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar. Presentation.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. It is critical for you, foundation leadership, and community participants to be clear who is making which decisions. Is this you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. WhatsApp offers an appealing and efficient method of sharing documents and other materials among members of a team.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Well, maybe the student didn’t delete the whole roll sheet – maybe it just got moved into the document header. So I started using collaborative Google documents. If you share a document, someone may corrupt it.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

15 th , 2023, is a day set aside to recognize and celebrate the contributions of philanthropy to individuals, communities, and the world. These events aim to honor philanthropists, volunteers, professional fundraisers, and organizations that have made a positive impact on their communities. National Philanthropy Day, Wednesday Nov.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

For volunteers motivated by the social benefits of volunteering, having activities that expand and strengthen friendships or foster community among supporters is important. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is an organization that has found creative ways to build community and fundraise on social media.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JUNE 9, 2018

In my next job, I’d like to focus on some or all of the following: Weaving networks among nonprofit organizations in order to build collaboration, peer learning, and communities of practice. Building the capacity of philanthropic and nonprofit organizations to achieve and document their desired outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. How am I getting outside today?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

What this created was a chance for people who use Twitter to come together offline to create community. It is for the community, by the community, all thanks originally to Twitter. And I hope they help you think about the way your organization uses opportunities online and offline to create community. What worked?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Community Map. Why : Why map your community?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

If you are an organization or group that wants to catalyze and support community-generated projects or you are someone that wants to get involved, I hope this is a format you can take and run with. The documentation explores Project Spaces conceptually as well as provides examples of how to hold a Project Spaces event.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. Your nonprofit can then use the data from these online documents to build a comprehensive database of information about donors. The Bottom Line.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Rarely have I gone deeper than the obvious impacts on solving problems in the community to explore what making a difference means on an individual level. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. Yet, this sticky note stares at me every day. SHOW THEM THEY MATTER.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Your community trusts you to keep their private information safe, whether it’s your donors’ payment information or personal details about who you’re helping. Understand and document your organization’s assets, risks, and vulnerabilities. This framework consists of these five key elements: Identify. Notify affected parties.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies can benefit from sponsoring your event by: Boosting their brand awareness and credibility in your community. For instance, let’s say your nonprofit’s mission is focused on advancing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge. Today, we are excited to share them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

The event’s technical host, MCI Canada , used a unique setup that facilitated being able to hear many more speakers, tracks, and sessions in two days than a traditional conference could allow. So many incredible ideas and initiatives are being shared at #BRG2019 ! So many incredible ideas and initiatives are being shared at #BRG2019 !

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities? The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You’ll be able to leverage these features to create a user-friendly nonprofit website that facilitates online donations and other transactions, keeps donor information secure, and increases brand awareness. Plus, they both have a strong user support community. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats !

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2012

Allowing your volunteers to be able to find other volunteers through your online directory, post messages about their upcoming events, blog about their experiences, and share pictures within your community site, empowers them to be more committed to the cause and yields higher fundraising for your foundation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leading a group of passionate volunteers, doing deeds that help the community around you, and making a meaningful difference to an important cause are what make the job of a volunteer management leader worth it. Online document collection. It’s easy to share key documents online now, even if it’s just through email.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The organization works in a variety of areas, supporting the neediest children and families in its community. Since 1960, ABCS has expanded its services rapidly, just this year donating more than 10,000 items such as diapers, formula, and clothing to members of the community who come to it for help. Transitional Program BBQ.

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Twenty Hats

JULY 13, 2021

Draft a document that shows your vision, strategy, planning, finances, options and commitment to your solution. where she had a wide array of responsibilities including membership, communications, awards programs and nonprofit outreach and education. in Consumer-Community Services from Michigan State University.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

This global Martus meeting brought together individuals who use Martus to address different human rights documentation and security needs in widely varied projects, to share their successes and challenges with the software. What if you could quickly and easily import data from other formats, like a Word document, PDF file or photograph?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

For years, we have been advising clients on how to build, manage, and grow successful online communities. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. In our experience, this often works better for cross-organizational communities.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“To us, our research and land grant missions are a commitment to serving Vermont communities and being engaged in our state, providing educational opportunities for the larger Vermont community,” said Alison Nihart, Strategic Implementation Specialist for UVM Extension. Centralizing Communications + Connections in the Community.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Salesforce uses this Hawaiian word which means “family” to describe their culture and the larger family of their customers, employees, partners and communities that “…take care of each other, have fun together, and work collaboratively to make the world a better place.” A huge and supportive user community. Transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Community Block Party attendees check out participating nonprofit organizations during the event. These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as document and spread those practices to others in the Network.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? To help you build a sustainable volunteer program, in this guide, we’ll cover the essential steps for starting a volunteer program: Conduct a community needs assessment. Conduct a community needs assessment. Need more help running your current programs?

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