Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments! This interview is part of her virtual book tour; check out the full calendar of events. Stories are the best way to bring to life for people what it is you do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 12, 2015

So, there's no better time then now for the new book, The Stay Interview, A Manager's Guide to Keeping the Best and the Brightest. Stay interviews are periodic, private, one-on-one meetings between direct supervisors and employees, both newly-hired and long-timers. They are not team meetings or focus groups.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

You can learn more about John and OpenAction in the interview below. John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. First, what does the “real-time Web&# really mean?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

The news agencies were reporting that hundreds of people have died and tens-of-thousands were missing. Personal Fundraising – In order to extend our reach and to leverage personal networks, we encouraged people to create fundraising pages. How did you co-created the campaign? What factors contributed to the success?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Find out more in the interview below! People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. Once the tweets of gratitude started to flow in we new we had identified a very powerful emotional chord with people. How can people get involved? What is Epic Change? Where do the funds go?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Find out more in the interview below! People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. Once the tweets of gratitude started to flow in we new we had identified a very powerful emotional chord with people. How can people get involved? What is Epic Change? Where do the funds go?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Your nonprofit is growing, reaching more people and changing more lives, and it’s time to think about hiring staff for your nonprofit. You have to: Find people with the right skills and a commitment to your organization’s mission. What People Does Your Organization Need? But then there’s more. So where do you start?

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Now you need to figure out what kind of person (or people) will help you meet those goals. We strongly recommend this technique because unconscious bias can frequently lead us to give preference to people who might not necessarily be the best match, such as: The person we really want to drink coffee with. Interview questions.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I have learned how to deep dive into Foundation Directory, align our grant asks with funders’ typical award amounts, and use Candid Learning’s sample letters of inquiry (LOIs). It includes an expert-developed survey and in-depth interviews with autistic adults, their family members, and community leaders.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Conduct initial research Before taking any steps to formally establish your nonprofit, conduct background research into the people and groups who will help you get your new organization off the ground. Vision statement: Our vision is to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature. Look into: Your primary audience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

The JEDI approach centers the fight for racial justice and equity and addresses oppression and known disparities which limit access to essential and life-enriching supports for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

Here are some examples: User Interviews. With a qualitative research method like this one, you really don’t need a large sample size to get good data. Data obtained from user interviews can be used to develop Audience Personas , to help guide design and content creation for your website/emails and to get ideas for improving events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

T he fourth guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Sample Ward. Often this means combining passions, so opportunities that use technology know-how, community or local people (especially new ones to meet), as well as real objectives and goals. #2 Happy Monday, Have Fun, Do Gooders! Sharing is caring, so they say!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With more people vying for top positions, a volatile unpredictable global workplace, and an ever-evolving landscape, it is increasingly important for employees to understand how to negotiate the unspoken and intangible elements of workplace culture,” explains King. learning the skills you need to be adaptive to changing conditions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. The Social Actions project began in 2006.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews. Here is a sample board skills assessment: Board Member Information What is your name? Here is a sample statement to the board of directors: “Dear Board Members, I hope this message finds you well.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. Their friends, colleagues, coworkers and family are the network – the people we reach through our community. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Trish Perkins (TP): I was working with a disability nonprofit in Nepal that wanted to put together a database of people who needed their services. Through the discovery process, we discussed how some staff members had to go to remote villages that were a month’s walk through the mountains to conduct interviews. It’s as simple as that.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. And invite people to lead with you at every stage.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In fact, when people are interested in knowing “my best quality,” I often say it’s my curiosity. When people learn what my job is, I’m usually met with, “Oh, that sounds awful.” From these findings, we then constructed a survey for distribution to a representative sample of teams within this company. I have always been curious.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

We on staff have always had the sense that we want to collect the histories of people who don’t have their histories collected that often – to have a representative sample that’s not just the famous people or the rich people. You have to remind people, keep reaching out. It’s sort of weird how it happened.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Include the hashtag on every post related to the event so people can click it and see related posts. For many people, part of the fun of attending an event is documenting and sharing that experience on Instagram. People enjoy seeing what it takes to make an event a success. Create a unique event hashtag.

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Care2

OCTOBER 27, 2014

This is one of the key concepts that I discuss in my book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , co-written with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN. Last week, Ann Marie van den Hurk at Kentucky.com interviewed me about the Ice Bucket Challenge. 5,600 new people in the U.S. The Ice Bucket Challenge was an incredible success.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The first wave of research released in June 2016 gathered insights from March through May 2016 and revealed that most millennials believed people like them could have an impact on the U.S. Slightly fewer millennials believe people like them can help make the United States a better place to live, with the biggest drop seen among females.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2017

Here's a sample of what they found. Your organization employs some talented people, but perhaps you'd like to outsource a few tasks to ensure your fundraising bases are sufficiently covered. In that case, an app called BrightCrowd may help you meet that goal.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

When I was growing up, people loved to argue around the dinner table about how people could try to change the world, but every nonprofit was corrupt. (No People were living in concrete boxes with only a door, no windows, and sleeping on pieces of cardboard. Standing far away, I had no idea what people needed.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Last night, I had the great opportunity to interview Clay Shirky , the author of Here Comes Everybody. We have all heard before that social media is allowing a conversation to take place online: people are talking to each other, people are talking to organizations, organizations are talking to people, and so forth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Start to recruit your champions, people in your community who can serve as ambassadors for promoting the event. Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

It's hard not to brag when four of our members are featured in an article entitled "5 Great 20-Something Social Good Community Managers" , which seeks to prove how young people can succeed in the role of community manager at nonprofit organizations. Firefly Partners specializes in web design for small to medium-sized nonprofit organizations.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Nonprofits operate with limited resources; an outreach approach that blindly attempts to reach as many people as possible with little analysis will quickly burn through those resources with sub-par success. That way, if people don’t respond, you’ll still have enough information to be statistically significant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

It is the largest gathering of people who work in the nonprofit sector and technology. I had the pleasure of designing this session with Will Coley – who interviewed the best content curators in the world and get them share their best practices. How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin.

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Kindful

APRIL 12, 2021

This means that fewer people are seeing your traditional donor recognition devices, like donor walls, donor brick pavers, donation certificates, and plaques. Given its frequency and the more formal, tactile feel of the medium, an interview format may be appropriate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Late last night (or early this morning), Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today. Marshall goes on to quote an interview he did with Peter Cashmore from Mashable on Netsquared who questioned whether MySpace was a place for "social media for social good.".

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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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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

While CNN is in the business of researching and reporting on the news and Komen is in the business of raising money for breast cancer research, neither of them understands the human side of operating in a multichannel world where people are engaging with you 24/7. Acknowledge people and address their concerns to build community.

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