The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Today, I want to present a sample year-end fundraising e-mail for a fictional non-profit organization. This sample e-mail is based on several very successful year-end e-mails I have used for real-world organizations in the past, but the names and identifying information have all been changed. Here it Is… The E-Mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraising experts and direct mail gurus all in one place. Want to Raise Money Online?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

TechSoup Global, the leading technology place for nonprofits, just announced it will kick off their annual Online Digital Storytelling Challenge January 13, 2011. said Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared, a program of TechSoup. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Online Fundraising Using the Web and Internet.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

This gave me a great place to experiment with some different fundraising and communication tactics. Sample Communications Really Help. Movember did a really good job of providing sample text for emails, pre-written tweets, and great facts to use in Facebook status updates. What I Learned About Online Fundraising.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2017

In the simplest terms, AI is the part of computing that not only collects information from us and from the Internet, but also learns from what it stores. AI is all over the place now. Here's a sample of what they found. We hope to surprise you with how AI is making your work easier rather than harder. Fundraising.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

Not a fun place to be. Printing/postage Fundraising expenses Phone/internet Marketing expenses (graphic design, advertising) Professional development (training and conferences) Memberships, affiliations (dues & subscriptions) Travel/mileage/parking Insurance (liability for the facility, errors and omissions for Board, worker’s comp, etc.)

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

This includes those event-specific logos to use in all your marketing as well as guidelines and samples of donor engagement strategies. Include a reminder for donors to submit their donations to their places of employment for an easy force multiplier. One quick win for your campaign is gift matching.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Understanding Facebook Places Functionality Opens Possibilities | Community Organizer 2.0 – Debra has a great post walking through the steps to setting up, using, and understanding Facebook's new geo-social tool, Places. Thanks, Debra, for a thorough guide!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Using the internet isn't a new concept to my Grandmother, though it's not really something she finds very intuitive either. Recently, she asked me if I could share any resources for her and her friends to be able to network, learn and socialize on the internet. Thanks for sharing this resource, Amy Sample Ward ! Getting Started.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. That means two copies of your data, in two different places (maybe one local and one in the cloud), and accessible by two different people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Since the meeting was taking place in Los Angeles, FFOG was graciously allowed me to present remotely with Liz Karlin. Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. It’s never too early or too late to have these policies in place! And those disastrous results are very, very public. And it’s extremely easy to create.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2013

If you’re looking for Fundraising Ideas and other ways to improve fundraising performance you’ve come to the right place. But most of all, within this e-book resides the wisdom of a group of individuals who have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place by using their talents to make a real difference.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In 2016, video will continue to be the most interesting media on the Internet. These are toys like Mattel's Internet-connected Hello Barbie that can have a truly interactive conversation with a child. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend. This past year, U.S. Children love it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. We really can’t draw any conclusions from this – the sample size was small, and, as I mentioned, not representative of the sector.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

The 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit will take place on May 23, 2012. WWT is a telesummit, meaning you can participate from your home, office, or anywhere else that you have phone and Internet access! Holly Ross and Amy Sample Ward will be hosting the fun on June 17th.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. NetSquared Local groups are monthly events that take place in a growing number of cities around the world (right now there are nearly 70!). The website and Community Blog are your online spaces to connect, share ideas, and collaborate.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The big guys quickly followed suit: Yelp introduced "Check-Ins" while Facebook launched "Places" and most recently, Google Latitude updated to incorporate check-ins and check-outs. " Hey, Let’s Fix The Internet – What do you think – can we change? Change the internet?

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

Place: FHI360, Vista Room 1825 Connecticut Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20009. The virtual Women Who Tech Telesummit which happens via internet audio and the web provides some of the most web thought-provoking, inspiring, and skills building sessions for nonprofit campaigners and social change makers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

I was part of the first-day that featured mobile expert Amy Gahran and Lee Raine , Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Lee used this story to illustrate three digital revolutions that are taking place that are having and will continue to have an impact on personal, professional, and civic life.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site. Winners will receive cash awards of $15,000 (first place), $10,000 (second place), and $5,000 (third place). N2Y4 Registration is Open!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. These clues will help lead them to locate the ultimate prize concealed in a public place. 5) Online classes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

The social network market place is already competitive on the second tier below Facebook. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places. As my colleague Geoff Livingston points out, nonprofits have limited time. It is our most valuable commodity. How do we invest that time as wisely as possible to have the greatist impact?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Here is a sample formula to play with for what you’re looking for: [intent] +[context]+[brand personality]+[data/template] Intent : You are a clever writing assistant that creates emails, articles, and social posts Context : This AI creates copy like XYZ company that makes paper clips for Millennials.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05%

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Here is just a sample of representative comments from survey respondents: We completely cut one program and seven staff positions and have placed another program on hold pending additional funding. We refinanced the mortgage, decreased Internet costs, and found as many places to save money as possible.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

The internet is huge, there are literally countless platforms where people are forming community. The way I look at it, the issues and best practices are just as clearly linked to the idea of gardening as other community building approaches are in my previous post.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Any Web enabled device can become a place to connect with actions: your iPhone, news sites and blogs, Facebook & other social networks, or even in your own Web site!&#. Social Actions is facilitating this challenge to encourage innovations for distributing opportunities to make a difference across the Internet and mobile devices.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Nicholas Carr’s prescient book, The Shallows , claims that the Internet is doing something to our brains. The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Their winner’s page is a great place to view some good fundraising short videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

In the long run, they are helping to make the world a safer, fairer, healthier place to live. For example, Amy Sample Ward , Danielle Brigida , and Michael Edson. You can grab the most recent research from the Pew Internet and American Life Center. (3) I drank the Slideshare kool aid in November, 2006.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection. "The challenge for us is we're not in the cloud in a lot of places we work; there's no Internet. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week is about using the Internet to make life better, and its not too late to get involved! Mozilla believes everyone should know how to use the Internet, have easy access to it, and have a good experience when they’re online. Learn more about Mozilla Service Week and get involved! What is Mozilla Service Week? Get involved!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. Feeding people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Internet makes this so easy now, but what's even more fun is to step away from the computer and go out and find artists where they work, live and exhibit. I combine my passion for travel, art and teaching by taking people to off-the-beaten path places that have lively arts and handcrafts scenes. We bond over our mutual humanity.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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