Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Create Community Dialogue. Do you have lots of different voices?

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

But what sometimes isn’t captured in a breaking moment is that most of these are the result of weeks, months, or years of steady work to create that singular moment. Ask advocates to send proclamation requests to their local leaders. Advocacy is a long-term calling. Learn more at MESG.marketing !

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Disproportionate expectations and challenges The report highlights 10 barriers hindering local nonprofit leaders’ ability to thrive. Wilds Lawson added that in areas with a shortage of funders and limited funding for local nonprofits, national funders could identify and support local and regional organizations more actively.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2023

LGBTQIA+ philanthropy is a powerful tool for creating a more inclusive society and supporting the community Inclusive and supportive communities are built upon the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. Fundraising and Donation Matching: Create targeted fundraising campaigns to generate financial support for LGBTQIA+ causes.

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Blue Fox

MARCH 10, 2022

But before you get out your credit card, be aware that not all humanitarian organizations are created equal. ” International Rescue Committee – “The IRC is working with local partners to ensure that refugees find safety, shelter and that women and girls are protected.”

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Many facilitators adjust fees so they can compete with local facilitators. You’ll want to look for someone who knows how to control hijackers, manage disputes, give everyone a voice, create buy-in, and keep things on track. Fees You may think you’d have to pay a premium for an out-of-state facilitator.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

There’s strength in numbers, and you need to build a base of educated and engaged advocates to raise their voices with you. But how can you attract passionate advocates who will show up ready to volunteer, sign petitions, attend rallies, and otherwise take action to help you create positive change?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

Instead, show supporters that you care about them as individuals by adding these strategies to your email marketing approach: Create donor segments. For example, you can create groups based on supporters’ giving habits, such as donation recency, type, amount, frequency, and reason for donating. Offer suggested giving amounts.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

We ask folks to describe their political, historical, and/or socioeconomic context in their state or local region, the changes they are fighting for, and how they are centering the experiences, issues, and leadership of people impacted by the problems they seek to address. Lastly, keep going.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change. Grantmaking equity lies at the heart of philanthropy’s mission to create positive social change and address systemic injustices.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

What are excellent practices and what questions are good to ask when you want to create a thriving community while maintaining your organizational effectiveness? Our intuitions told us that stories of great local projects were not traveling from town to town. Local leaders weren’t getting the credit they deserved.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

The organization and its members work at the international, national, and local levels to realize the vision of a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. Consider your association’s voice. We’ve created a new initiative that doesn’t lead with our name.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

Now is the time to act and give your cause the voice it needs. By planning ahead and creating a content schedule, you will save your nonprofit time and money. From there create a list of blog topics. This means the type of content you create and share must be engaging for your audience to connect with. Plan, plan, plan.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. Advocacy and Policy Support: Foundations possess a unique position of influence and can leverage their voice to advocate for systemic change.

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Roles Foundation Leadership Community 72

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Effective outreach strategies should focus on connecting with local AAPI groups, leaders, and community centers. Aim to create an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere that brings together diverse AAPI communities and builds bonds. You can even invite attendees to join in group dances or lessons to create an interactive experience.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2023

AI can’t replace the time you’ve put into understanding your donor’s needs, the importance of your mission, or the voice that you’ve honed for your organization. Step One: Create segmented messages to carry through your campaign! But it can be a helpful new “writing buddy”! Let’s achieve greatness together!”

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EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

But no matter how your nonprofit is doing good in our world, there will always be ways your work and mission are affected by legislation, policies, and local and national events, which means there will always be reasons to make your voice heard. Advocacy is for everyone. Ease of experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2019

Emotion AI, the Internet of Things, voice-giving, facial recognition payments, and human microchips. GroupRaise is an online system that enables restaurants to fundraise for local organizations with a 3-5 mile radius. Tapkat enables nonprofits to create online fundraising sweepstakes. BitPay :: bitpay.com. Fee ranges from 7-9%.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But when it comes to active measures that show accountability toward progress – such as conducting a pay equity analysis by race/ethnicity, setting diversity targets, and creating re-entry programs – only 10-30% of these companies disclose implementing such measures. Companies need to move from the incremental to the transformational.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We offered a light tea and lunch, had local craft vendors and hand-made wreaths for sale, and shared what we had accomplished for the year. Leave a voice message thanking them for their gift and briefly explaining how it will help your organization. Create a thank you video. If they don’t answer, no worries.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

They can be the first thing a person sees about your nonprofit; allowing its voice and message to come through with unique combinations of visual styles, music, and narrative. You can share them over social media, embed them on your website, link them in your emails – even create a QR code for them to use on a brochure!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 8, 2021

This post offers five ways you can optimize your fundraising campaign and create winning emails as we all prepare for the biggest season for nonprofit fundraising — end-of-year giving. Uplift Voices in Your Community. Email marketing is a cost-effective way to connect directly with past, current, and prospective donors alike.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year. It takes time to create a Giving Day, and we knew to put our best foot forward.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Nonprofits, education institutions, and corporations alike are recognizing their roles in creating a more sustainable future. org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. org’s local chapters are utilizing uniquely-built Salesforce instances to suit the needs of each team.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

It’s harder to create a fun event when everyone is sitting at home in front of their computer. Go into the planning stage of your virtual event with a can-do attitude, knowing you can create something fun and meaningful. You could invite a few local acts to perform and offer a little something for everybody. And the weather!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. See how nonprofits like yours are benefiting from their donated products and services, and creating professional-quality videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

But many causes and organizations are finding that it’s a lot harder to get picked up in the local paper and/or the national news than it used to be. There are still reporters out there with column inches to fill, but far less of them than there used to be. These can be gold mines of content for your communications platforms.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

First, we learned that during the pandemic, European foundations engaged in both local and cross-border giving in new ways. Some foundations that lacked experience in local giving began investing more in communities, while others engaged in cross-border giving to show European solidarity.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That means you need to create a website with content that is informative, compelling, and unique. A blog is a perfect place to put your content, whether that be articles, guides, videos, photo galleries, local news updates, or updates from your staff. The good news is that it’s not that complicated to create good meta data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. The first is developing strong local partners , such as disability NGOs, libraries or educational institutions that help us customize our services to the specific needs of their communities.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Each year, individuals worldwide take the opportunity to do better for our planet with actions such as planting trees, cleaning local communities, and raising awareness for environmental causes through peer-to-peer fundraising pages. Kick Start Your Movement With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Environmental Sustainability in Action on Earth Day.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

You need a hero with a bold voice, lots of courage, and a heart of gold. Whether you’re a local community group or a globally-recognized brand, we strive to provide you with the resources you need to connect with your constituents, with each other, and with our team. Meet LionHeart Astro. That’s Lionheart Astro.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Organic social is considered free, non-paid content created, uploaded, and shared within social platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube. This is done through “boosting” organic content or creating individual ads themselves. Boost your local ranking with the benefit of these increased SEO social signals.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

A great strategy that I recommend is to create a list of broad content ideas for your non-profit newsletters. Kitsch can really work for non-profits and can contribute to a unique brand voice for an organization. In today’s post, I’m sharing 10 engaging non-profit newsletters ideas that you can use in your next newsletter campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

That was my number one priority when writing the book… to create a comprehensive, useful social and mobile media how-to guide for nonprofits. Create a master login sheet. Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Create a Google account. Create a Facebook Page. 1) Website.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Website: Create web pages dedicated to the various aspects of your nonprofit, such as an “About Us” page that summarizes your vision and a donation page with integrated payment processing. Create a brand guide to ensure your graphics and messaging stay consistent across these channels. Leverage each other’s resources.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

The Foundation was created in 1975, and since then it has supported nearly 3,000 Truman Scholars who are making a difference across the globe. Excellence – Website for Government. The Harry S. Truman Foundation supports the graduate education of outstanding young men and women committed to public service leadership.

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