Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing. Examples from Haiti.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames. It had been bombed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s.

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Global Giving

MARCH 26, 2019

He kept probing and soon discovered a system of forced labor in the Belgian Congo that would become one of history’s notorious humanitarian crises. Annie Duke, a psychologist turned professional poker player, suggests framing your uncertainty in terms of bets , like “I’m 70% sure that our new fundraising campaign will raise at least $1,000.”

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Social media tips directly from our new book, Social Change Anytime Everywhere Social fundraising - when is social media the right place for this? We''ll provide you a behind the scenes peek at engaging, exciting, and successful social fundraising campaigns. The importance of a Social Media Hand Guide and how to create yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

communities can compete with each other by fundraising on the GlobalGiving site. SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. It's called Why Congo Matters. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events? A Platform for Self-Organizing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Donations include whether fundraising goals are met, especially with our Spring Drives. We have just over 30,000 subscribers to our e-newsletter, which we use to communicate fundraising needs, especially for WITNESS’ annual Spring Drive, annual Gala (which occurs in the late fall), and an End-of-Year Fundraising Drive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Gorilla Doctors :: @ GorillaDoctors. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

If you want to be successful using social media in your fundraising strategy, remember: Build your network before you need it. We're still in the early stages of social media as in the early days of the web and online fundraising , so, we are in the "it's hype, and not going to last" phase.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada. This makes it difficult to sustain ourselves organizationally in terms of fundraising and getting American young people’s attention.

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