Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

. – "This interview is part of our "Social Citizen Sightings" series, in which we highlight how people are using their creativity, idealism, and digital fluency to support their causes every day. The pilot phase launches this month and will support 15 New Yorkers with ideas for grassroots projects."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

The week is a signature event created by the Points of Light Institute , to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation. Do Something Focused more on teen activism and engagement with causes, their site offers Virtual Volunteer opportunities so you can take action without leaving your couch!

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Additionally, the people donating personally know the individual promoting your fundraiser. Here are some scenarios in which peer-to-peer fundraising could benefit your faith-based organization: Help raise money and awareness for an upcoming project. Continue the momentum of a capital campaign for a major project.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

You have to follow seven people until you''ll begin seeing your friends posts to create real anonymity. Will this allow for trolls to have more spaces to attack people around hot button issues? When CMe participants suggest that another user gets help, they''re sent links to third party help groups. Social Networking Web 2.0'

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. There is another, surprising group that is much less likely to participate in dialogue with strangers: teenagers. Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

What's the biggest mistake people make when involving non-professionals in exhibition design? This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! Being a force for justice and arming young people with the courage and freedom to define their own identity. Being a force for justice and arming young people with the courage and freedom to define their own identity.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. The photos are the centerpiece of NRDC’s handsome report, and they compel readers to read more about the programs and advocacy projects of NRDC in their effort to protect our planet. Power Poetry.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you say you want to be relevant, that usually means "we want to matter to more people." Or different people. If you don't know many people in this community, this is a red flag moment. Don't assume that content/form that is relevant to you or your existing audiences will be relevant to people from other backgrounds.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Since 2003, the nonprofit has saved more than 6,000 animals, and the project is growing fast. HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Find the Future was the overarching theme of the projects.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the next month, this blog will feature guest posts from a few of the people behind these innovative, quirky institutions, but in the meantime, here's a short list of six of my favorites to explore. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? These events bring together app developers with people from the nonprofit world to present new ideas and improve on social good projects already in use. Connecting People to Vital Services.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

LinkedIn has a new feature where people can congratulate each other on work anniversaries. It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. We have an incredible group of people working together at the MAH right now.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

4) Is there a way to still create team projects virtually, allow employees to virtually volunteer together, or is it only as an individual? Many virtual events allow for employees to engage one-on-one or provide their skills to nonprofits in need, however, if people wish to do something together, there is always a way to gather and connect!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. “[My first project] was literally for pens, pencils, crayons, glue and rulers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

We can gather information and reach people with a speed and frequency unimaginable even in the 1980s. But to make these connections, people need access. Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I hope the Foundation and its partners are successful in achieving their goals: listening to new s, providing means for isolated groups to get together, offering support for creative solutions "in world" that might transfer to "real life." Not only did Jonathan Fanton himself want to stay in touch with project.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston. He got to see the museum process from the inside.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. They staffed talk-back tables where visitors could write on butcher paper, and outside the museum, they put out boxes of sidewalk chalk to invite people to share their thoughts.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

If you somehow missed #TheDress, here's the scoop: One day, someone posted a photo of a dress to Tumblr and asked if people thought it was white and gold or blue and black. And, if you're thinking that only teens like memes, look at the range of people who drenched themselves for the Ice Bucket Challenge. What Dress?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. They were there for project brainstorming. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. How do we resolve this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Is it only younger people who are using social media. I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube. Source: Pew and American Life Internet Project, Adults and Social Networking Use.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Events like GivingTuesday are helping condition people to give online and raise awareness about the importance of giving. Having worked in the technology department for a diverse and rapidly expanding nonprofit focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, Jeff has been a part of his share of poor decisions and “teaching moments.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Nonetheless, you can still click through to each group's project page to see the real-time vote tally and I'm sure all 100 organizations are monitoring how others are doing to get out the vote. . He is organized parties to get hundreds of people to vote and connect through chats to get their friends to vote during the voting week.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

It might seem scary that the future of the nonprofit sector will soon be in the hands of teens and college graduates who seem to only care about whatever is displayed on the screen of their smartphone or tablet. In fact, Millennials make up 11% of total giving , but are projected to have an even larger impact in the coming years.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

It struck me quite obviously that the people I cover on a day-to-day basis, especially the younger bankers, are some of the future major donors for museums. Inevitably, these are the people museums are going to want to attract to join the board and make major gifts. Let’s face it – people like to be social and have a drink.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. " Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. Go read it. More here ). *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

We can learn about the status of the Walker's signage project , its " Art on Call " project, and more formal communication such as articles that will be published in the forthcoming newsletter. people at the Walker who may be represented by official websites but. I'm sure people feel generally uncomfortable writing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. It was refreshing to see a wide array of projects and presentations that put sharing authority at the center of the visitor experience. Sharing Authority.or

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

They are frequently about real people's stories. For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g. For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. In our digital space, we have a new innovation called the Explorer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Several years ago, I had an opportunity to travel to Costa Rica with a group of artists. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I crave community, but I am not naturally outgoing in large group settings like conferences. To me, Museum 2.0

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