Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Well, you’ll find that much of the work that involves your community, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, involves strategy that goes in a circle. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. Strive to Be Replaced.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Whether that “you” is the government, business, public services, other community members, or even philanthropists. There have to be other criteria for defining and evaluating innovation. Maybe it isn’t even money, but feedback or advice, maybe an introduction or volunteer time. People believe you should listen to them.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. Nonprofit organizations, local and federal governments, campaigners and even businesses are trying to innovate at the speed of communities. The keynote will focus on “Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation”.

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DipJar

MARCH 21, 2022

Prospect research is the process of using tools like your donor database and government records to identify potential donors who have the financial ability and personal interest in your cause that together signal they may want to contribute to your organization. . The consultant’s track record.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I'd like to suggest Innovation Network's State of Evaluation Project and the Urban Institute's Nonprofit Sector in Brief as excellent sources. Our most recent (March 2016) survey sample size — over 3,300 respondents — is large enough for confidence in the data. This Is the Data You're Looking For.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2016

Is the service you are evaluating paid by a corporation to place their employees on boards? Or just nonprofit sector or governance experience generally? Or do they provide a short sample of some boards they have helped? Where does their money come from? Does this create the wrong incentives? Do they have board search experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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Effective Program Work Review 96

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

How have you made sure to evaluate where or what kinds of tools or platforms your community uses before you choose what to do with your social media strategy?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

The simple call to action also lends itself to participation by many, including government officials. Here’s an example of a Senator showing his support for veterans through participation in the #gosilent pledge: Tracking silence.

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Iraq Afghanistan America Arlington 239

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

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. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning?

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Game Education Change Classroom 132

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Your Board is responsible for big picture issues that have to do with governing the organization. A No-Yawn Nonprofit Board Meeting Cleaning up commitment issues, handling challenging Board members, and using a consent agenda to free up time all give you newfound time and space in your meeting to have more interesting conversations.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." All 79 IDA countries, the lowest income nations, are included with the geographic locations of projects, financing, and sector identification such as water, transportation, governance, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

are available for learning about administrative (government) and judicial decisions affecting the operation of non-profits?" The Raiser’s Razor: Resources for Tracking Policy Changes re: Nonprofits - Here's a post that answers the question, "What resources (journals, subscription services, websites etc.)

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Bookmarking Delicious Journal Social Media 100

Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

After their internal discussion, NTEN board vice president Rusty Burwell, who heads their governance committee, met with me. Of course I also worked with the executive director of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward when she helped us build the NetSquared community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. Government and feedback loops - how can they take the field's learnings and incorporate in theirs? Ann Wizer, XSProject Founder. What's a conference without schwag ? He told me I got his first business card!

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Social Kiva Artist Sample 88

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. How do you evaluate your programs and services? You can read her poem, Untitled, here. What is a movement?

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Build Community Technology Action 220

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. 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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Game Education Change Classroom 60

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Second Place: $15,000.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. .&#. Visualizing: number of months along the bottom, insight, return and dollars up the left. Listening: hearing what people are talking about your issue or sector.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

help to evaluate resumes of kids). Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Joining the board (which is an opportunity to govern). Same for any grants, regrants, mini-grants, or loans you offer. Plug donor skills into the work. Touch the work.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As I’m sure many of you already know, much of this work, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, relies on a strategy continues to come back around to the planning elements and through to evaluation, over and over. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The nonprofit should check past evaluations and documentation of performance in order to avoid discrimination claims. We've posted a sample layoff letter as a guide.). For example, there may be an unexpected two-month gap between the completion of one government contract and its renewal.

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Nonprofit Law United States Job 36

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. And I see an anonymous question here about, “Can you speak to what evaluation methods are particularly effective regarding impact?” So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As for tactics, well, we mostly relied on “proven” or “successful” efforts; lessons learned from other organizations working in an analog paradigm like government, unions, and churches. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Analog Tactics. Organizations.

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Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So there are some things like that that you might want to consider, especially if you’re maybe looking into government grants. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. A select group of these ideas are provided below.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2010

It's more critical today given the endless stream of scandals in corporate and government. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Glad you are sharing this message with your readers.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. . Or we need 1,000 donors to chip in, or we need 150,000 people to sign this petition to the government to make sure they protect this wilderness area. So people get it. . Harvey: Probably. .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

The HEROES Act , crafted by Democratic members of the House, is a $3 trillion package that includes additional funding for government programs, relief funding for state and local governments, and changes to CARES Act loan programs. 895B for state, local, and Tribal government relief. 100M for Violence Against Women programs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), now being run by my former colleague and all-around superwoman, Amy Sample Ward, recently came out with a report called Nonprofit Technology Assistance Providers Sector Reach Report. Research from NTEN: The Current State of Nonprofit Technology Assistance. This is definitely worth checking out.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

® found when evaluating 90 nonprofit customers that the top 5% of influencers on a nonprofits email list of 140,000 can reach an average of 34 million people , or 85% the total reach of email and Twitter combined. Sample subject lines (not A/B tested): Can you tweet @Postus today? Attentive.ly® Share our FB Live Kick Off.

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