Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

The biggest lesson: Everyone has something to give. I can’t think of a lesson, an outlook on life, and a guiding principle for my work that is more about love than this one. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org. I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. This month's Net2 Think Tank asks you to share a lesson learned from online fundraising." org campaign. "A Which are best/worst?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

You’ll get access to your own temporary workshop org and follow along with step-by-step instructions, guided LIVE by our adoption experts! Then you’ll engage in a live “lab” with other customers and Salesforce experts where you’ll develop a valuable resource to guide your next steps. Reason #4: The Cloud.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

We’d like to share a few of our major aims and reflect a bit on some lessons learned that we hope will guide our approach in the future and prove helpful to others designing competitions, challenges, and prize giveaways online – in particular those focused on social benefit and public service. Social helps you be your own media.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

link] Book: Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child by Ron Hunter and Michael Waddell The post 9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master appeared first on Get Fully Funded. You’re job becomes growing into the leader your nonprofit needs to succeed.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. Too often, these lessons end up on individuals’ computers, shared drives or locked away in portals and are not shared in order to prevent repeated mistakes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2012

Maybe we all need to take a lesson from the sea turtle, and slow down. Watching this video, I can't help but think about one of the top emailed and viewed New York Times stories today, The 'Busy' Trap. If you're feeling a little overwhelmed today, watch the turtle swim. Nothing really happens. That's the beauty of it.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. It's a nice mix as you have someone from a larger org, someone from a smaller org, and a consultant-type.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

"I realized that she would need lessons to be successful and enjoy her gift, so I declared that my birthday gift to her." " And three months of weekly lessons later, Ratliff’s mom was proficient on her iPad. But her mother had seen the benefits of computerized communication by watching her husband.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. A big issue I face in my small org is how to be security cop without hindering productivity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

"I realized that she would need lessons to be successful and enjoy her gift, so I declared that my birthday gift to her." " And three months of weekly lessons later, Ratliff’s mom was proficient on her iPad. But her mother had seen the benefits of computerized communication by watching her husband.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

Maier also mentions the number one lesson being mentioned today: capitalize on donor behavior. Has your org had similar successes with mobile text-to-give programs?

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2012

This month we have a few Nonprofit Technology DOs and DON’Ts for you to consider: DO hand off technology to “the youngest person in the org” because they know how to use Facebook. I myself have been guilty of the “accepting a technology donation from a busy board member,” and boy, did I learn a hard lesson from that experience!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

Up to you & the culture of your org- maybe add initials. I think you do need basic social media guidelines for your org. Look to other orgs for examples. Think about and decide who will have ownership of your orgs official social media outposts. to help with your orgs early efforts. Have the convo early.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

If IT is not making a noticeable difference in how your org works, then it's failing. But Jason is lucky to work at an org where IT already has a seat at the leadership table. Look at the places where tech moves from the back office to the programs of your org. This, I replied, is true: Show don't tell.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

According to Wild Apricot’s Small Membership Insight survey, events are the second most important “critical source of income” for small nonprofits and membership orgs. John Haydon wrote A Lesson from the 2013 Charitable Giving Report: Worry About Year-End Fundraising NOW, Not Later for npEngage readers this week.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Debra Askanase wrote a thoughtful post addressing the issue of effective staffing of social media roles at your org. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Too much tree talk? Sarah said it better, so I recommend this read ! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After six months of trying and testing–and learning some hard lessons–Upwell has found a way to do big listening online, mostly using Radian6. It also helps illustrate that the orgs who you think of as competitors for funding are actually great collaborators on campaigns. What is Big Listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). For those orgs, Beth and Allison advise individuals at nonprofits to go small, try simple stuff , not focus on ROI, be willing to fail, and leverage small successes. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They are also exemplars of partnership in the field; augmenting reach and showing how big orgs can lift up smaller orgs. I think the backlash against “one-offs” should actually be a backlash against leaders who didn’t learn lessons from those experiments and use those lessons in their future experiments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

org, Greenpeace, Peaceful Uprising, and the New Organizing Institute. If you've been working on online savvy campaigns and have a lesson, bit of advice, or story you'd really like to pass on: please let us know. Already, we have confirmed chapter authors from 350.org, And we're on the look out for more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

I use a “Living Case Study&# technique — it is less formal that your traditional case study because it covers a work in progress and shares lessons learned as well as successes. Roots of Change worked with Change>org to implement this petition. Living Case Study. A/B Testing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

And that’s an important lesson to learn. Wendy : I think traditional org structures are going to change and aren’t the best. Don’t expect to snap your fingers and have people praise your brilliance. It takes the same sort of intrapersonal elbow grease that it always has.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Do you have any lessons learned yet for how to structure something like this? I've been learning the power of social bookmarking and tagging content - this helps in 2 ways - first - it starts to answer how we collaborate with other orgs, patients etc to index content. How do people use these articles or resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

I run the org???s ABOUT THE ORG The HSUS is the nation???s We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. Notes ABOUT ME My name is Carie and I???m m the Internet Marketing Manager for The Humane Society of the United States. and online advertising campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2007

-ICT Hub has taken an active approach to evaluation -Please contribute to what we have been learning - pointed to the evaluation forms in the packet -Conclusions will feed into lessons learned - what works, what doesn't - if you have written anything about what works in practice - they need to know. Marc Osten, facilitator.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2010

Emma’s lessons learned got me thinking: What are some simple online tools that organizations can provide to really help with that “heavy lifting” and make it fun for participants to fundraise? How can orgs put the “fun” back in fundraising?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Mention the donor in emails year-round relating to the program they supported. Photo and Bio. Touch the work.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Here are some of the lessons we learned: 1. In essence, what and how much data any org was willing to contribute was directly tied to how secure the process would be and how much control they had over what got shared. We aimed to build a better collaboration, with a strong foundation, and sturdy frame. Did we succeed?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And so, yeah, I mean, my lesson on this is planning for the unexpected never hurt anybody. You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top. Aaron: You know, I’ve seen org charts. You know, the worst-case scenario is that you have to use your reserves to cover, you know, an unforeseen condition.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. What do you think? Would love to learn from you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

To get a more than anecdotal snapshot of the nonprofit blogosphere and identify the benefits, challenges, successes and lessons. org your personal professional blog or is blogging a part of your job at Compumentor? org as my workish blog. I'd like to get some funds or a partner to do some research on this question.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

And that's an important lesson to learn. Wendy : I think traditional org structures are going to change and aren't the best. But in building a level of trust, particularly with a chairman 30 years senior, is all about an environment where you can learn. Don't expect to snap your fingers and have people praise your brilliance.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The class was structured with lessons, followed by 20 minutes or so to complete an exercise. During one lesson, not only did I get working code but I did it in a way that the instructor said was “elegant.&# I think the new Chatter Now and Chatter Custom Groups will be welcome additions to a nonprofit’s Salesforce org.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

So how to do we take this long-standing DM lesson and apply it to our growing email lists? Converting Subscribers to Donors Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 09:00AM | by Karen Taggart [originally published DMAW AdVents , June 2007] It is no secret in direct mail (DM) that recency is key to successful fundraising.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

So how to do we take this long-standing DM lesson and apply it to our growing email lists? Converting Subscribers to Donors Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 09:00AM | by Karen Taggart [originally published DMAW AdVents , June 2007] It is no secret in direct mail (DM) that recency is key to successful fundraising.

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