Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. Communities share, pass on, and constantly expand a collective wisdom and knowledge from experiences, events, movements and legacy.

Community 167

Community Library Model Adopt 167

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

This foundational knowledge may at times feel simple, but it’s best to make sure you have a rock solid understanding of nonprofit consulting practices before entering into conversations with potential partners. For your website design consultant, make sure to research each candidate’s services and business model.

Consultant 52

Consultant Web Proposal Nonprofit 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Within the arena of startup incubators, however, Benetech’s social enterprise business model and Benetech Labs’ approach are unique. The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. Let me explain how this is so.

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Technology Profit Application Method 163

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

Los Angeles 130

Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

At Common Impact, we’ve identified three keys that will help you confidently structure a pro bono project, identify organizational challenges your potential partner could help solve, and propose a skills-based volunteer engagement that meets your nonprofit’s needs and supports the interest of the volunteers.

Skills 31

Skills Model Nonprofit Volunteer 31

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The software’s diagram component, results chains, conceptual models and threat ratings allowed her to carefully analyze the impact of wildfires on sedimentation and water quality in these areas. Elaina says that Miradi helped her determine what knowledge was needed by local residents to adopt behaviors that promote clean water.

Guam 124

Guam Conservancy Software Help 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. We invite you to check out the Bookshare catalog for updates on our Spanish collection.

Spain 151

Spain Language America Law 151

Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2009

Those involved in online community development for-profits and nonprofits alike share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal issues, and more. And often the best source of information on all of these challenges is other knowledgeable practitioners, which is what makes the OCU a rewarding event.

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Unconference California Community Online 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

They create social capital or value by making their skills, resources, and knowledge available to each other. Engagement in the network provides a bigger benefit than to the individual member, the networks can work on finding solutions to big social issues. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said. After all ideas are in, MMT will use them to craft a Request for Proposals, inviting applications to make a case for funding from the $1 million. “If And now they are up to something again: MMT is looking for a million dollar idea to support!

Oregon 140

Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. Enter Susan. tell her personal story and make a clear, specific legislative ask. Step 1: Our Internal Partnership.

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Offline Campaign Channel Cancer 44

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM.

Game 132

Game Education Change Classroom 132

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

On September 10, several prominent charities teamed with big companies to stage a one-day virtual protest against the proposed FCC net neutrality rule to allow big Internet providers like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon to create a two-tiered Internet with slow lanes for most of us, and fast lanes for those willing to pay for the privilege.

News 45

News New Jersey Reddit California 45

Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Models: Create a capped-rate, a retainer + hourly for tech support, project-based. During the dialogue for proposal and contract, there is a real opportunity to observe each other, so time spent can have an effect on the relationship. The client trusts you that you will be worth the investment that way.

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Consultant Structure NTEN Skills 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. I found it through Beth’s Blog.

Chapter 100

Chapter Network Open Source Wikipedia 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

The activities for this community of practice included regular conference calls primarily for the cohort, webinars for a broader audience of community foundations, and an online safe space open to any community foundation hosting a giving day to share knowledge and tips with colleagues.

San Antonio 50

San Antonio America Local Philanthropy 50

The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We get a lot of RFP (Requests for Proposals) for association and nonprofit website redesigns. Some CMS systems have friendlier drag and drop authoring systems, while others require a bit or a lot of knowledge of CSS (cascading style sheets). Often, one focus of the RFP is the technology that will power the new website.

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System Content Associations Websites 130

The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We get a lot of RFP (Requests for Proposals) for association and nonprofit website redesigns. Some CMS systems have friendlier drag and drop authoring systems, while others require a bit or a lot of knowledge of CSS (cascading style sheets). Often, one focus of the RFP is the technology that will power the new website.

System 130

System Content Associations Websites 130

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2006

In a couple of posts a few weeks ago, I warned that information that is just in people's heads and not shared organizationally cannot be considered organizational knowledge, and suggested the reuse of routine communications as a path to capturing this knowledge in a way that does not create endless new documentation tasks.

Knowledge Management 40

Knowledge Management Knowledge Application Proposal 40

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Community-Driven Model. Why Community?

Library 241

Library Model Adopt Community 241

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . But her business model is all about generosity, all about offering. So right off the bat, what does it mean to connect and establish common ground?

People 75

People Community Video Podcast 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

We connected largely via meetings, not unlike today’s meetings they had fairly versatile formats: sometimes a  well-known speaker or someone with special knowledge or credibility about an specific issue, sometimes in large auditoriums, sometimes smaller rooms.  There is a new movement building model emerging.

Facebook 69

Facebook Illinois Learning Policy 69

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. So how do you do that?

Game 60

Game Education Change Classroom 60

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ? and proposes the creation of an overarching government wide policy on social media. While challenging, it certainly is not impossible for the US Federal Government to overcome the non-user fee based revenue model of many social media vendors. in communities across the country?

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Social Media Media Government Social 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

They use a model where they can change the zoning based on the issues they learned about. They produce a model that shows the consequences of the proposed change. What do we have to do to recreate the ways that the skills are linked with values and knowledge. Complex problem dealing with state street.

Education 50

Education Mobile Game Exercise 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already.

Environment 50

Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Data Warehouse Architect should have extensive knowledge of designing and implementing off-platform data solutions for customers with Salesforce.com Sales, Service, Community, Nonprofit, and Education Clouds. The Data Warehouse Architect will have experience with common nonprofit and education off-platform storage use-cases.

Canada 40

Canada Data API Skills 40

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 26, 2022

They will define strategy, go to market, product offerings, operating model definition, people management and, and service delivery. This person will work across the organization to drive sales proposals and ensure client success. Work Authorization : Citizens or Permanent Residents of USA or Canada.

Canada 40

Canada Director Management Model 40

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I think another important component is knowledge. And if you can develop those relationships with funders, if you can develop great core content, if you can leverage materials for different kinds of proposals, then that is really going to set you up for success. . So logic model, this is my tried and true.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. 2) Crowd Creation.

Measure 96

Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. And what real world event models can you learn from or partner with? The framework is super flexible - as just about any kind of action can be proposed and organized.

Offline 88

Offline Community Online Organization 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing.

Open Source 92

Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. Impressions, opinions, increases in knowledge, change in behavior that might not be, you know, something that we can capture objectively. Grant proposals.

Report 77

Report Measure Impact Process 77

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Manager of Knowledge Resources. Wilbur considered the post “a very special trust,” (123) and set up a partnership model that “emphasized cooperation, integrity, and credibility, that way we could set some standards for other preservation efforts” (124). [1]. Stephanie La Loggia, M.A. ASU Lodestar Center.

California 95

California San Diego Impact Story 95

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. It’s about the skills, knowledge, expertise and know-how you need to make philanthropy happen in your community. General / @southwestfdns. 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $385.

Calendar 177

Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

This is the moment for nonprofits to stop accepting proposals with custom CMS, and to make it clear in the RFP that a custom CMS will not be acceptable. Should we be able to achieve a migration to drupal or one of the other open-source models? Finding someone knowledgable about different CMS options is a good idea as well.

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Drupal Module Open Source WordPress 100