Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

." Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty? – "Nothing would have pleased my group more than finding a way for technology to advance the cause of poverty alleviation. The success of PC projects in schools hinged on supportive administrators and dedicated teachers.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Charity Seeks to Move Beyond Making Loans to Entrepreneurs - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Kiva first made its mark by allowing people to make online loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, but the organization has ambitious plans to move beyond its initial mission.The (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. We each tackled a different aspect of resilience.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The new technology uses mainly salt water. Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world. Kiva is a classic nonprofit social enterprise that relies mainly on earned revenues rather than grants or donations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. Lasica , a consultant and author of four books about emerging technologies. She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Submitted by Michael Smith. Sl’ack-Ti-vism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

Focus on quality content and community, not on the technology. Bay Area The Hub social innovation web activism Kiva Change.org Virgance Be transparent. Provide opportunities that create measurable change. Involve a lot of people. Use the carrot. Use the stick. Make people feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Chelsea Bocci of Kiva.org also hit on this theme as she discussed several social media engagement campaigns Kiva has done in recent years, and how with each campaign they learn from their mistakes and adjust their strategy to better engage their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Submitted by Michael Smith. Sl’ack-Ti-vism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

leave a comment and come to SXSW in March to join the debate with Jacob Colker (Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries ), Premal Shah (President of Kiva ) and Jason Cooper (Online Coordinator at Kaboom.org ). Help us out and vote for our panel “Can Double-Clicking Change The World? Slacktivism 101? both offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Some interesting data emerged around how the mobile technology and crowdfunding trends are shaping each generation of Canadian donors’ interaction with charities and nonprofits. Engaging Through Mobile Technology. Baby Boomers (or Boomers, born 1946 – 64). Civics (born 1945 or earlier).

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MAY 23, 2008

Technological change is no different. Kiva breaks it. The technology landscape of the past 30 years is littered with big hits and even bigger misses. The technology providers are not immune to the tides of change either. It starts with experimenting with new strategies and technologies (not the other way around).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

" technologies and sites to find people who are passionate about nature and concerned about conservation around the world. Allan Benamer, of the nonprofittechblog , gives us an answer: The three biggest success stories so far are modestneeds.org, globalgiving.com and Kiva. We turn to "web 2.0"

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Submitted by Michael Smith. Sl’ack-Ti-vism.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Think about 5 things: what’s the problem, what technology you’ll use, design sustainability, how will people come to use it and how will you distribute it. What can we do with groups like Kiva? We are all about moving ideas into something that might work and do so by running competitions and weekend-long prototyping events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Here some thoughts from the NTEN blog about ways to use twitter for your organization, although some nonprofit technology experts do not find twitter useful professionally. The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Details here. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, organizer of London Net Tuesday, who connects nonprofits with new media technologies. Ken Banks, a Hewlett Foundation grant recipient who focuses on using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Nowadays, some of the same technological advances that led to scalable efficiencies in transaction processing are beginning to shape the landscape for information products and service providers. The market worked—we’ve had two decades of new innovations, new customers, and new financial products for donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

There was almost universal frustration voiced about using outside technology consultants. Smaller organizations said that they could not afford help of any kind, particularly their own staff dedicated to technology. Participants felt a generation gap with the new technology. ???I???m t feel qualified. to Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. It enables people to give to people in need anonymously. Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! You can set up a fundraiser, issue a challenge, or social contract.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

I had a conversation today with a major Jewish Federation about technology change. They are thinking about the future and wanted to look seriously into how changes in technology will impact their activities in the future. The change taking place with technology isn’t simply about operational efficiencies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Skelliwag has some awesome tips on how to fight poverty with technology.   For my part, I'm loaning $25 to Prom Pha l, a Cambodian woman, via Kiva.  This is just one person's small effort to use the social web to change the world !    What will you do today?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica Jackley Flannery is the kind of person who makes you feel at home right away, like she is truly happy to meet you, which is why I wasn't surprised when she said, "Kiva started out of relationships and love, ideally I would love for that to be present in every single transaction that happens. What is Kiva? How did Kiva start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years, including virtual worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Kiva , charity:water and a few others were mentioned. Tony Scott ( @tonys ), a technology volunteer, has also been instrumental in the effort. This is something that really is unprecedented. Those organizations which fail to exert new leadership will risk losing support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

This is a really great use of technology to reach a younger generation of victims who might be more comfortable in an IM session than a phone call. E-waste and access to technology to those who could not otherwise afford it. He recommends the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network , works with local rape crisis centers nationwide.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2008

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It's great to meet a new technology social entrepreneur who is so on top of the latest social technologies! Kiva's cool, of course, but everybody already knows that!] Through the Full Circle Fund , where I spoke recently on a panel with Premal Shah of Kiva.org, I had the chance to meet the third panelist, Deb Levine of ISIS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

I was honored to speak at the Summer of Social Good conference hosted by Mashable , a popular social media and technology blog and a big geek favorite. She also announced that Facebook is piloting virtual charity gifts to users, the proceeds will support micro-lender Kiva, Project Red, the World Wildlife Fund and Toms Shoes.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Some rights reserved.

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MAY 4, 2011

Prior to joining the team, he was Director of Information Technology at TRUSTe, an organization engaged in Internet Privacy. Zeph currently volunteers with Year Up, and in the past has volunteered with Kiva, Citizen Schools and Mercy Housing. Zeph completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science at Macalester College.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

MoveOn.org was one of the first organizations that really pioneered this with technology. Kiva's a great example. I grew up in Seattle, so technology wasn't a new thing to me. Well, Britt, I know that you have a special interest and expertise and secret sauce in technology. Real people were behind the organization.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

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

MARCH 16, 2007

technologies. " Another write up about Kiva. If you want to talk about micro-lending with Kiva for a whole day, here's a Talkathon. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award. It means antenna of an ant.

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