Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Social media may connect people around the world but it can also connect them locally. Don’t forget the global context!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Twestival is back this September, this time focusing on local groups instead of a global campaign! Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Check out Twestival Local. Twestival Local puts the spotlight on hundreds of causes around the world.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. One that jumped out at me is the work that Anderson Center for Autism (ACA). Support for Autistic Children in the U.S.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2012

Implementing truly gorgeous online maps still requires some custom code and technical know-how – but, the cost and learning curve involved has dropped considerably. Online maps provide a concrete, quickly digestible way to drive home the connection between your organization's work and where it takes place. ThinkShout.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

To support that work, we’re pleased to share Visualizing Funding for Libraries. Candid created this grant-mapping platform with generous support from the Knight Foundation and continues to offer it as a free resource with funding from the Tocker Foundation. Libraries today are preparing for even greater demand for their services.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 21, 2023

Your organization does much to advocate for industry issues—petitioning local and federal level politicians to generate support for association-backed programs. Shout out your advocates so all members can be aware of their work and ongoing efforts. Highlight any upcoming policies your advocates are working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global. What did you discover by putting your Twitter followers on the map?

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

Being a nonprofit techie can be lonely work, since our role requires that we be change agents in our organizations as we help them discover the future! work, but we can renew our energy to connecting with our peers. Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. This Week’s NetSquared Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Worst case: The orphanage collapsed like all other concrete buildings in town and the locals might hesitate to dig out HIV infected bloody kids. Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. Tags: maps. Crisis Camps.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Mapping data can help nonprofits monitor protests and election violence, decide where to buy repossessed homes to convert into affordable housing, determine how and where to deliver supplies and aid in disaster-stricken areas – and document zombie invasions. Do you use GIS systems in your work?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2012

While there are many, many organizations working on water-related issues all around the world, there’s one I want to highlight: Water for People. FLOW is an on-site technology that broadcasts data instantaneously to the Water for People website/FLOW map providing important information about the operating status of WFP projects.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Junior Achievement USA is an organization with over 100 local Areas that empowers the next generation by providing lessons in financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship. Increasing your ticket sales helps you raise awareness about the work you do for your community, which ultimately leads to more donations.

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See3

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Historically, customer journeys have mapped someone’s purchase behavior for a product in the marketplace. These can be technical roadblocks such as online tools that are not working properly. Map-Making 101. BigDoor also has their own Quick Guide to Customer Journey Mapping.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

You can deliver a meal to your guests or ask them to drive to a central location to pick up their dinner, whatever works best for you and your guests. Even though it’s virtual, you still have to promote the event, sell tickets or tables, get sponsors, and map out the program. Choose something that works well in a virtual format.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

5) SEO can help you get local attention. Why focus on something as global as search engine rankings when your organization has a local focus? A Google Business Profile with reviews, a Google map image on your website, and Yelp can boost local rankings. Search engines include geographic information in the results.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. If you’re a new organization without many resources or contacts, you may have more luck working first at the local level.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You pull out your phone and type it into Google Maps. With a Google My Business listing, your business can pop up in these local searches, leading people straight to you. People use Google Maps for everything – for research before they visit somewhere, as a way to find a particular service closest to them, or even on the go.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Still, many foundations shy away from working together, assuming it will require considerable time and a loss of independence. . Benefits of Funder Collaboration .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bringing skilled volunteers together in person with passionate and integrated local organisations around the world was how V2I worked towards their mission of helping global communities break the cycle of poverty. Ecosystem map representing the adopt-a-project concept with key value exchanges. Adopt A Project.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. Tableau supports a wide range of data sources, including local files, spreadsheets, relational and non-relational databases, data warehouses, big data, and on-cloud data. The Ask Data Tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. I've always felt that maps are just plain cool. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. These folks do astonishing work. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. It puts one type of data on a map.

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CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

And we couldn’t think of a better organization to highlight than Spur Local. Spur Local blew it out of the water last year with their Give Local Together Campaign. About Spur Local Spur Local (formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy), is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities in the Greater Washington region.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

Authors Steve Zimmerman and Jeanne Bell have introduced a proven method for change management called matrix mapping. The matrix map cultivates sound decision-making that embraces the entire organization’s capacity rather than one program or person. Intro to the Matrix Map. Check out a sample of the matrix map.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Earlier this year, the Network for Nonprofit Technology Solution Providers (NNTSP) organized as part of TechSoup Global, combining their resources to create a national network of local technology capacity-builders serving the nonprofit sector. Several of the NNTSP partners are combining efforts for a response to Hurricane Sandy.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore key tips to increase your patient acquisition rate: Use Patient Journey Mapping Keep a Pulse on Reviews Optimize for SEO Partner with a Digital Marketing Keep in mind that patient outreach is directly tied to patient outcomes. That said, let’s explore these tips in more detail. Respond to negative reviews.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This article will introduce a few ways to think differently about your existing museum shop or mind-map for the future if you intend to open one. Get to know peers working in shops at other museums and find out what they are offering and scope out their top retail strategies. The museum sector is a friendly one. Know your stock.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

Leveraging the strength of the migration ecosystem, Forum One worked with EPA to create custom migration plugins that read data from the Drupal 7 database and transformed it for Drupal 8, allowing EPA to maintain custom Panelizer layouts in Layout Builder and content governance with Groups. see results for Montgomery County Schools, VA).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Houston ’s NetSquared group summarizes Crafty social marketing tactics that work. ” September’s NetSquared Events. Tuesday, September 17.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I was also unaccustomed to having to find all my own resources; I had spent the previous 15 years of my career working in higher education with access to a university research library, enterprise platform subscriptions, and myriad other resources. I’d taken it for granted that these resources were just there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Whether you’re recruiting for a professional association or a union , these tech-savvy tactics can put your organization on the map and push your recruitment goals across the finish line. Getting Attention recommends working with a Google Ad Grants agency so you can see the best results. Collaborate creatively.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

So much so, that we created a program and began partnering with hundreds of organizations across the United States (and a few points abroad) to help them become go-to hubs for their local nonprofit communities. They’ve been coaching and skillfully assisting local nonprofits for years.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. obama reach vs local reach. over time have gotten other metrics and impact from working on this goal. But don’t do it again just because it worked, keep evolving.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

million) for relief work in Turkey and €10 million ($10.6 million in grants to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey. The United Nations also issued an appeal for an additional $1 billion in aid, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development pledged €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) to Turkey. million) in Syria.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . We see examples of general support to disaster-serving organizations, but to identify disaster funding to organizations that do not specialize in disaster work, we rely on information found in grant descriptions.

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