Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. " DemocracyInAction Green Grants - DemocracyInAction Green Empowers grants provide organizations with the Salsa platform for free. charitytuesday is your charity taking part on Tuesdays?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The GEO research released at the opening plenary suggests some candidates – stop processing so many papers and stop the annual grant treadmill in favor of longer term grants. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant. How many hours could be freed up across the foundation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Since 1997, the Packard Foundation has awarded 1,392 “organizational effectiveness” grants to an array of groups, most of which have annual operating budgets of $1 to $10 million, and operate in the human services, environmental conservation, population, and arts fields.

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MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: W.D. For the grant-seeking, this article by Hallman Communications debunks persistant misconceptions about the Google Grants program in "The Top 7 Myths About Google Grants for the Small Non-Profit". Vanlue Fundraising tips, some new (and free!) New to Salesforce?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Yesterday I brainstormed a list of ways writers can create positive change: Volunteer as a copywriter, or grant writer for a nonprofit. Flickr photo credit: Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter by Michael Dolan. Write a story for your community newspaper, or blog. Be a mentor, or teacher to other writers. Write an op-ed.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). While these legal disclaimers are to empower other users to share content, each network uses content differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr photo by DoroQuez. While my original intent was to discuss evaluation and transition of specific capacity building grant programs, the conversation smartly expanded to discuss the future trends in capacity building for the sector and us as foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. If learning in public means showing our vulnerabilities – be it less than primped up data sets or underperforming grant investments – then the risk of the ‘gotcha’ environment must be tempered down. The time, money and effort also sounds overwhelming.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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JUNE 23, 2014

Here’s a short list of some of the stuff to get done around then: Complete grant and contract final reports. When a grantor says you have to pay back misused grant funds. Flickr / CC BY. It’s financial statement time. Get all payments out. Get all receivables in. Process all expense reports. Form 990: IRS.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Steve and 3 self-funded volunteers (found for free via Google Grants!) Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Steve Heyes, a colleague and founder of LearnAsOne , has just embarked on a great journey to Zambia and you’re invited! Longer-term, the plan is to become similar to Kiva.org, but for schools.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Flickr: vernhart Member Appreciation Month here at NTEN is marching on, and as a way of saying "thank you" to our members, we've got a couple of great webinars lined up for you this week: Get Yer Free Ads Here: Introduction to Google Grants , Tuesday, 11/16. Google 101 for Nonprofits, Thursday , 11/18.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. It was quite impressive/overwhelming to see everything we did in the past year–evaluations by consultants, training evaluations, family member surveys, post grant evaluations, etc. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2014

Your organization’s HR Director knocks on your door wanting to discuss the latest employee benefit offerings while you’re in the middle of working on a grant proposal. Image 1: toolstop (Flickr / Creative Commons ). Image 2: Robert Banh (Flickr / Creative Commons).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

When people who work in services, programs, grant writing and fundraising, for example, all share their view of the groups in the community, not only can you start mapping the network but you can also have really rich discussions about the way different parts of your organization view the community. New grants or new programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. From courting potential donors to hours of grant writing, there are very few times a fundraiser’s job feels done. Note from Beth: This week I’ve been in Finland at the invitation of the US Embassy to do trainings. So, to avoid my own burnout, please enjoy this guest post by Julie Fanning.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Flickr: Amanda_SG Even though it's been unseasonably warm in the northeast where I am, I feel completely immersed in the Thanksgiving spirit. > Free Webinar For Members: What is Google Grants? An Introduction to the Grants Program Presented by the Google Grants Team , Thursday, November 19th. >

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Flickr: Sarah_Ackerman What a year, NTEN members! They were the recipients of a large grant from Google to enhance their ability to connect with teens and impact social change through mobile innovation. DoSomething wasn’t the only recipient of a Google grant this year, and not the only NTEN member either.

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MARCH 28, 2011

And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! If you did not attend the conference, visit the SlideShare event to review presentations. Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Read the TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Flickr " 2. Read up on Flickr and look at different examples by nonprofits. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. Full disclosure: Hewlett is a grant funder of CEP and a user of our assessment tools.). Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

member gives your organization access to web-based grant research tools as well as a comprehensive list of current sources of grant money. Image: Donation jar, ( Flickr ). eTapestry is a cloud-based tool that is ideal for organizations with remote staff or volunteers. Becoming a GrantStation. Searching for prospects?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

member gives your organization access to web-based grant research tools as well as a comprehensive list of current sources of grant money. Image: Donation jar, ( Flickr ). eTapestry is a cloud-based tool that is ideal for organizations with remote staff or volunteers. Becoming a GrantStation. Searching for prospects?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. It has been on our social media sites and website and we have attached the video to some of the grants we applied for. A five-picture Flickr slideshow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. And he bypassed the traditional fundraising models that were failing the cause (think government grants and giant corporate gifts for our context), promising New York City residents to print their names in his paper regardless of the size of their gift. Guest post by Jesse Noyes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission. And it's not just that we can build Wikipedia or Flickr streams. He granted it. David Weinberger gave the wrap up at the end of the day. An outline of what he said is here. He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Flickr Photo: eszter. Statistics and information to use in grant. I think we can safely call it tradition now: it's. time for the 4th. Annual IT Staffing Survey , brought to you by NTEN and The Nonprofit Times. Your generosity of time has. allowed us to create reports on the. But, as with most things involving data, the real.

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JULY 29, 2010

Jake of Grant Writing Confidential also emphasizes the importance of storytelling , among other tips, in his post, How to Write a "Juicy" Nonprofit Blog - or a Blog of Any Kind. Flickr photo credit: Juicy! Nonprofit 2.0 If you’d like to be notified about future Nonprofit Blog Carnival submission deadlines, themes, etc.,

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ). Obviously “profit&# is a slippery slope, but in most scenarios, it isn’t the community at large that would financially benefit off of change.

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JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. Submit your ideas for the opportunity to win a $2500 grant and a free NTEN Membership. Fortunately, the NTEN community is making it easy this year.

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AUGUST 5, 2011

Members working to support women and girls may want to check out their micro grant opportunities , available on a rolling basis until September 15th! A few years ago, he was a blogging novice; now, he now uses Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, and Google alerts to strengthen his museum's community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio? Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. What Is Web 2.0? To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Flickr: Newfrontiers NTEN is excited to announce a new opportunity for year-round community engagement: Communities of Practice (CoPs). Themes will reflect both a specific programmatic focus and an ongoing opportunity for growth – for example, Public Computing (vs BTOP grants).

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