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4 Strategies to Increase Donor Loyalty

Bloomerang

Of course, you’ll need to prepare the caller for how to handle the conversation; sometimes it may mean closing the talk with this request: “May I have our executive director give you a call to continue this dialogue?”. It also includes sample templates, worksheets, and my Creative Ways to Thank Your Donors guide with 72 ideas you can use!

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. I think that we have a lot to learn about where gamifying is most helpful, but we are so far from the saturation point that we should push ahead with full speed so we can evaluate what works and what doesn’t and make adjustments.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. Anyway, you already asked yourself what roles were needed when you did your strategic evaluation, right?

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. How do you evaluate your programs and services?

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. That's teaching. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be. I think the cross section of everyone getting into the development and gaming means we will need to evaluate what is quality and what isn't. So how do you do that?

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature. If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. If you’re hiring a grant writer, request samples of grants he’s written. Is the text well formatted?

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. From listening, to creating to evaluating and then back to the listening again so that you can modify and then evaluate, and so on. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation.

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