Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Maybe it isn’t even money, but feedback or advice, maybe an introduction or volunteer time. We can’t focus just on money. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. Washington, DC: NetSquared DC Happy Hour. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Seattle, WA: Fundraising + Technology: How to Raise Money in a Changing Landscape.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston: Storymakers 2017! Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. Why Are You a NetSquared Member? We asked NetSquared members why they attend our meetup events. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

Online Fundraiser's Checklist – "FREE DOWNLOAD: The Online Fundraiser's Checklist. How Do You Ensure Fundraising Success This Year? Take advantage of Network for Good's handy new eGuide, The Online Fundraiser's Checklist, to ensure you don't miss a thing." " Check it out! ."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I just discovered a new (to me anyway) blog on nonprofits called the Nonprofit Eye via a provocative post on the Netsquared Community Blog. She recently introduced her blog on the Netsquared site: Don't know where I fit in the scheme of things here, but I have to start somewhere. Join in, viva la revolution!

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Research Triangle, North Carolina: How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. Storymakers. Wednesday, June 8. Wednesday, June 22.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

NetSquared is proud to be a sponsor of this kickstarter project. We put the idea on a site like StartSomeGood (or in this case, Kickstarter) - and we're raising money to help bring this guide to life. But more than your money: we want your input. social media online community Net2 NetSquared community'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I'm thinking about the use of video or vlog posts coupled with fundraising widgets as well as some other possible ways (ad revenue from web videos?) to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. Chipin, the fundraising widget I'm testing for my campaign, offers video integration.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

How To Raise More Money With Email: A Step-by-Step Guide to Increasing Opens, Clicks, and Donations CharityHowTo / Webinar / Fee: $69. AWESOME APPEALS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Better Fundraising Emails with Kerri Karvetski Nonprofit Marketing Guide / Webinar / Fee: All-Access-Pass only. July 14 — 3 p.m. CharityHowto.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Like every nonprofit, we wanted that prize money, but this was a bigger opportunity. 7 Social Media experiments we tried with the 99% Power Coalition | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Joe Solomon does a great job sharing the tools, tactics, and mini-campaigns used in the recent 99% Power Campaign.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

Founder Jessica Dally came down from Seattle to give a talk called Run Free: How to Transform Your Community Without Money. Jessica is also a Nonprofit Commons member and NetSquared Local organizer.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Her birthday wish is to raise money for the Sharing Foundation using Causes and we think we could help her crush her goal of sending 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. As you probably know, Monday is Beth Kanter’s birthday. Amy (& Stacey). Some tweeted.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters. Check out their work at [link].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

If you're just doing a general fundraising campaign, Razoo or CauseVox might be the way to go. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). – to raise money for your cause. CauseVox is a fundraising platform and isn't project based like Kickstarter or Teespring.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2007

You can see and share these astounding figures with MAPLight's Presidential Fundraising Widget , which can be placed on your blog or web site. The widget is funded by the $25,000 first prize NetSquared Innovation Award that MAPLight.org received at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) , and by the Sunlight Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Fundraising 2.0 While it is important for nonprofits to explore new approaches and tools, it's also important to remember email fundraising stills continue to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. In the past, I've solicited mostly friends and family for fundraising causes. I'm not a marketing or fundraising professional.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If you're just doing a general fundraising campaign, Razoo or CauseVox might be the way to go. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. – to raise money for your cause. CauseVox is a fundraising platform and isn't project based like Kickstarter or Teespring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In a conventional game, like Monopoly for example, players earn money for themselves. In ProperLORDty, banks may end up taking away all the players’ money. Want to learn more about how gaming is changing social issue awareness and fundraising? Gaming for Good Resources.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Once you've got some ideas about the kinds of tools that you think might help you reach your goals, ask yourself, how much time, money, and in-house staff expertise do we have to learn how to use these tools, set them up, and maintain them? When will you decide whether or not to continue putting time, money and energy into using a tool?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Include outreach to bloggers as part of your online fundraising campaigns. Why not ask your supporters how many of them have a blog or web site where they would be willing to promote your fundraising campaign? Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Raise Money Many blog readers have money to give. Why not ask them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." The Frozen PeaFund , a social media campaign to raise money for breast cancer research, is seeking some advice about becoming a nonprofit organization. " It is a fundraising guide for the overworked nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? How can you use a blog to fundraise and mobilize people to action? Who will set it up?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Submitted by Ted Fickes. Definitely.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

Some things just work differently (remember the money trees.) Are virtual worlds viable, even perhaps necessary, platforms for first world nonprofits and fundraisers? Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. Or maybe GoogForceLife.). Why do this virtually?

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