Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. 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. Examples from Haiti.

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JUNE 16, 2021

They do so while also highlighting some figures on what different donation amounts allow the nonprofit to do, such as “$50 helps fill 39 hungry stomachs in your community.”. The example below from Hope for Haiti shows how to highlight these tips in a digestible way. Storytelling Examples. Download the Guide to Nonprofit Storytelling.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 7, 2014

Despite this initial push back, there seems to be some misconceptions about the effectiveness of the mobile platform with contemporary web users. According to a recent study by the folks over at npENGAGE , 84% of nonprofit donation landing pages are optimized for mobile. Mobile giving wants to trend up. SEO matters.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

In fact, here’s my list of 7 ‘must do’s’ when thanking donors, so the donor feels warm and fuzzy about the donation they just made and is receptive to giving the next time you ask. Your email thank-you should arrive immediately after a donation is made online. Your donation makes it possible for us to provide food for more people.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Additionally, the people donating personally know the individual promoting your fundraiser. Unlike general donation forms, peer-to-peer campaigns leverage the personal aspect of fundraising—wouldn’t you donate more if it was your friend, coworker, or family member advocating for a cause as opposed to a stranger?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2010

The most recent development with mobile technology is that of a giving platform. million people used their cell phone to donate. 77 percent of respondents were aware of the Haiti text-to-donate efforts. 77 percent of respondents were aware of the Haiti text-to-donate efforts. What does REI stand for?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. The internet is an endless stage and platform, and when we are up there speaking, we expect you are all listening.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the nonprofit realm, the Red Cross' text message donation platform offers the best real-life illustration to the power of SMS. When following the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, the Red Cross quickly mobilized a text donation campaign that raised an astounding $32 million.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

This rebound was led by an enormous 163% increase in the International sector due to emergencies like the earthquake in Haiti and flooding in Pakistan. Friends or family endorsement - create campaigns, messages, and “asks&# that your supporters can modify to make their own, and that are shareable across platforms.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You see, if the email doesn’t get opened, you get no donations. Dismissing the subject line will cost you opens and it will cost you donations. Want to know the biggest danger in Haiti right now? . If you use Mailchimp, the platform will let you know if your subject line is too long. Big mistake. Read that again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2010

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization's fundraising bag if it isn't already. What's cool is that Drew’s employer GOGII is the mobile app developers behind textPlus a free group texting application available on the iphone and android platforms. .

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Pitch #2: Hiraa Khan of Givemob @hiraak @givemob • Givemob is a mobile app that allows people to make charitable donations with simple clicks, and brings new projects to users'' attention. • Givemob also keeps a log of users'' giving so they can export and keep track for donation/tax purposes. In the U.S.,

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2010

There’s a ton of apps and social platforms for nonprofits and do-gooders to sift through these days. Micro-volunteers have completed over 300,000 tasks such as tagging photos from Haiti to help find missing people. Here are three apps that are worth checking out and keeping an eye on. The Extraordinaries.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

Too many groups set up a perfect web site platform for storytelling, only to find that they can't populate it because they haven't gotten senior leadership buy-in, or they haven't identified regular contributors to develop content. They've also noted over $6 million of online donations since the launch of their blog last May.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The Ushahidi platform was created and deployed by this group in about three days. The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. We got to know Ushahidi mere months after the platform launched. The name "Ushahidi" means testimony in Swahili.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Also, a credit card is not needed to make the donation as payments are billed directly through the cell phone carrier. It is just important to have the right level of expectation (not every campaign will match the Red Cross's $32 million for earthquake relief in Haiti), and to convey a sense of urgency to prospective donors.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Early last year, mobile giving evolved from an emerging technology to mainstream awareness with Haiti earthquake relief, raising approximately $45 million for victims of that natural disaster. Drilling deeper, 60 percent of respondents aged 18-34 were aware of mobile giving, and 12 percent had made a text-to-give donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the amount raised or pledged for Haitian relief efforts, including corporate donations during that period was $575.4 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Email is a top driver of online donations, RSVPs events, and traffic to your website. Donation Pages. Donate to your own nonprofit to confirm the thank you landing page and follow-up email are current and designed to feature important calls-to-action (CTAs). Create and promote a major donor donation page/program.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

There is a constant need to reach out to more supporters who exist on different (evolving) social platforms, and cultivate a personal relationship with them. Supporters can easily donate, rsvp to events, and take action, right then and there! To be able to advocate a cause, nonprofits need to engage with their supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The second round of the contest opened on January 15th and the pre-contest promotion on January 14th on the contest fan page was met with a chorus of "Vote for Haiti." Chase had, in face, already donated to the relief efforts, although the link to the corporate press release was not posted on the Fan Page all until two days later.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

Between Barack Obama’s much discussed use of texting to mobilize supporters during the campaign to the most recent successes charitable organizations had in raising money via “text to donate” campaigns after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, text messaging is now seen as the “new” must have in any marketing plan for nonprofits.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

Between Barack Obama’s much discussed use of texting to mobilize supporters during the campaign to the most recent successes charitable organizations had in raising money via “text to donate” campaigns after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, text messaging is now seen as the “new” must have in any marketing plan for nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Now, another way to approach it is with a, like a partner myLIFEpeaks in Haiti, which I’ll be down there on Sunday to close this project out. ” And they donated 90% of their design fees. All the engineers that we helped recruit to the project donated their services, tens of thousands of dollars. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. We’re used to hearing nothing but bad news from Haiti since it was hit by a succession of catastrophic events since 2010. Sanebox starts at $2 per month per user.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

One of the most well-known examples of 21st-century statecraft occurred in June 2009 when Jared Cohen, former member of the State Department policy planning staff, asked Twitter to postpone scheduled maintenance during the Tehran election protests in order to allow protesters to continue to use the social media platform to communicate and organize.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

New Platform = New Opportunities. This innovative platform presents new opportunities and challenges for organizations. Such tablet platforms will create new consumer expectations. Moreover, the iPad will likely prove a good platform for developing kiosks in public spaces like museums, or even your organization's lobby.

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