Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

Takeaway : Between economic uncertainty, global instability, and whatever new crisis is just around the corner, the thought of fundraising can be daunting. GivingTuesday may have its roots in America, but it’s a global phenomenon. Takeaway : GivingTuesday has an overwhelming global impact, inspiring generosity all around Earth.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Created in November of 2012, GivingTuesday is a global movement to inspire generosity around the world. With the holidays and the end of the year coming up, many people are more inspired to give back to their communities, so you don’t want to go into the giving day unprepared.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! Let’s start at the beginning: what is “community-driven social impact” anyway? CDSI is not something that you thought up inside your organization, even if you thought it up with your community in mind or at heart. Presentation.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Music is great at bringing communities together, and while it may take a lot of planning, hosting a benefit concert can be incredibly rewarding for both you and your supporters. Foster community engagement at your benefit concert as local musicians, volunteers, and donors all gather in one place for a cause they care about.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

Natalye Paquin currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Points of Light Foundation, the largest nonprofit in the world dedicated to volunteerism and community service. Founded in 1990 by President George H.W. This announcement builds on a strong year of momentum for the company.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

End-to-end event management platforms provide comprehensive solutions covering all aspects of event planning and execution. Qgiv Events is a versatile online platform that streamlines event management and fundraising efforts. Customize your event pages, simplify the registration process, and manage your guests all in one place!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Related Links : Conference website.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

But they knew that in order to scale their work globally, they needed to use the web to influence lasting change. So in 2011, the organization adopted an online movement-building model that they hoped would more effectively engage its community of half-a-million divers. million divers.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Session: Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity & Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns. I think the most important trend now is collaboration -- across platforms, across organizations, across sectors. if you want me and the whole global NetSquared community, visit: [link]. -

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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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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people to give back to their communities by donating money, volunteering their time, or advocating for causes that they believe in. Donors from 100 different countries gave to Neon One users this year—GivingTuesday really is a global movement of generosity! Who Is Giving? When Do Donors Give?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. Are you developing tools, applications, or platforms for the web? Regardless of next year’s topic for the September 22nd celebrations, digital inclusion remains a core barrier to truly celebrating the web globally. Today is OneWebDay ! Get Involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Social media specific webinars.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

So, what are the biggest lessons for using social media in a global movement? Lesson #3: Local vs Global. The final focus area is on the local vs global impact of social media. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link]. There were three main lessons or focus areas that emerged in the discussion.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Diverse Goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Brooks shows that if the world had a global approach to outbreaks like Swine Flu, then the decision-making and directive power would be in a really bumped up World Health Organization-like group.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2011

Each month, the NetSquared community (a project of TechSoup Global) meets up offline at NetSquared Local events around the world to discuss ideas, meet new people, and work together to make social change. What do you think of us using the Meetup platform in this unconventional way? What Do You Think?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

This month's Online Community Meetup here at TechSoup's San Francisco headquarters featured Charles Baker, strategy and community development manager at Meetup.com. Following are highlights of the presentation: 1. The key concepts behind this are activism and self-organization. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

You can make friends and call them into action, but those actions and real engagement will link to and live outside of the platform. Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform. This is a great example of providing a real, authentic voice to a global issue. But how do you wish the platform would work?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Does it seem to be reaching the community you hoped?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

online giving increased from $400 million in 2018 to $511 million and that total online and offline giving reached $1.97 While global corporations like Facebook and PayPal match donations through their platforms, consider involving a local family or foundation. GivingTuesday Data Collaborative?reports reports that in the U.S.?online

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest mobile fundraising apps. We looked at mobile tools for fundraising as well as apps that incorporate some sort of fundraising into their platform. to your phone or tablet.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

One you know who you are interacting with, why you want to interact with them, and why they would want to interact with you, choosing the appropriate platforms or tools to do it is much easier. We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. Birthday Cause Wrapped Up.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Our organizers hold monthly offline events for anyone interested in the connection of technology and social impact. Highlights from the Community. The Social Media Surgery community (of which Net2 Manchester organizer Steven Flower is a key member) won the BBC Learning Through Technology Award. A Sneak Peek at the Future.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. First Place: $25,000.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They were also costly in that they pushed earlier and arguably more successful forms of ICT4D like community radio to the periphery, in an attempt to overcome the basic untenable economics of a rural telecenter, namely: . I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now. Realizing Potential

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. The context is that many projects don't offer this.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. How do you build an online community that makes a serious impact for your cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? 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. Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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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. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov.

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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. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Naira Bonilla will show you how to connect with diverse communities and create strong relationships using WhatsApp, the #1 messaging app in the world. We are here to talk about using WhatsApp to increase engagement with multicultural communities. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Naira, I got 2:00 Eastern. Naira: Yeah. Naira: Okay.

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