Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. (We’ll Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was going mainstream in nonprofit workplaces, along with the need to develop technology plans. Similar adoption issues and themes surfaced as I identified in my recent post on social media policy. Amy Sample Ward shared a collection of links recently pointing to my post about silo culture.

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Adopt Social Media Media Social 90

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

DO make your messages relevant to specific bills that are pending in Congress - and mention the bill by name in your sample letter text in your online advocacy campaign or petition. DO include the name of your organization in the sample letter text. Otherwise it looks like your campaign is simply there to build your list. DO go local.

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Advocacy Sample Facilitation Local 31

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

They also support a range of files so your contest could be a logo redesign or a social media policy, a video clip or a conference session proposal. The platform requires that participants in your contest submit an abstract, but what is included in that submission is up to you. It isn’t free – and that’s okay!

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Contest Platform Proposal FAQ 137

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are annual reports, grant applications, website pages, blogs, appeal letters, policy docu­ments, procedure manuals, thank you notes, press releases, program reports, research papers, legal documents, advertising copy, board orientation documents, promotional material, and much more. Staff also helped one another write and edit material.

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Tips Nonprofit Sample Skills 96

Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

For-profit entities were the first to develop systemic policies, procedures, and practices to identify, analyze, and assess risks as well as to communicate the context and outcomes of risk management. 4 examples of how software can facilitate strong internal controls. A Review of a Standard Risk: Failure to Meet Program Outcomes.

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International Test System Journal 33

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. Rather than having our exhibit team walk through and fix things up every once in awhile, we wrote facilitation plans for the Memory Jars and other intensive participatory elements. You can find several more photographs here. Deaccessioning interactive.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Amy Sample Ward. Global Kids uses interactive and experiential methods to educate youth about critical international and public policy issues and provides them with opportunities for civic and global engagement. So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable.

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Blogger Change Social Philanthropy 50

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. And just some real gifts that I received when I was working in the trenches is a $10,000 gift from someone who named us the beneficiary of their life-insurance policy after their spouse died and they didn’t need it anymore.

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Video Giving Gift Donor 131

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. So keep that in mind.

Roles 121

Roles Resource Develop Video 121

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

The “smooth” part refers to ClientTrack’s ability to facilitate (i.e., In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes.

Interview 144

Interview Collaboration Boston Chicago 144

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Or maybe you’re really looking for larger scale, a change, right, systems-level policy advocacy change. That was one really fun example. .

Community 79

Community Video Slides Survey 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. This is just a sampling. In a post on Foreign Policy and the term "slacktivism" triggered a flurry of e-mail on Progressive Exchange. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!),

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Community Blogher Boston Conference 91

Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives. Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society.

Disaster 44

Disaster Data Global Open 44