Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

Prefer to donate to local charities or make a long-lasting impact through their investments. Sample identities could be “community leader” or “survivor” or “change maker.”. In summary, the researchers found that donors give for different reasons. Different donors indicated that they: Enjoy the act of giving, especially through events.

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Donor Giving Method Nonprofit 290

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. What’s the point in using “global&# tools (social media) for local organizing?

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Local Community Organization Netsquared 145

VQ Strategies

JANUARY 13, 2023

Whether a formal book group through your local AVA (Association of Volunteer Administrators) or funder roundtable or an informal group of peers who share an interest in the topic, this guide is designed to help you explore, discuss, and apply strategies featured in the chapters. That’s where book groups come in.

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Facilitation Group Guide Chapter 98

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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Local Map Guidelines Twitter 100

NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We're pleased to announce a new member of the NTEN Team: Amy Sample Ward. You may have heard of her.

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Sample NTEN Director Portland 100

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Your sandbox is updated before each release with a preview version and all local Apex tests are run for all customers. Version certification. Pilot customer sandboxes, populated with sample data. With Nimble AMS, each customer has access to a full Salesforce Sandbox to test and train your staff—at no additional cost. Change log.

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ROI Associations Software Test 136

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

Also, if you have not read it, Kivi Leroux-Miller has written a stellar piece called “ The Heroes and Villains of Give Local America Story. “ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5 In Columbia, S.C.,

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America Disaster Local Lesson 50

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Start with a prompt to create a skeleton sample golf tournament marketing plan that your team can further flesh out with your content, or verbiage for promotional emails. Partner with local influencers and celebrities. Local personalities are more likely to respond to inquiries, so keep that in mind when creating your target list.

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Charity Create Sponsor Sample 78

VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

thank you notes or comments written by fellow volunteers, staff, visitors or program participants, or the public) Yard Signs (this was something I had seen another local county provide at the height of COVID lock down, to provide a thank you to volunteers even when they could not be on site) MOTIVATIONAL Digital badges (i.e.,

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Denver Badge Museum Volunteer 98

Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

NetSquared Local members meet monthly in 50 cities around the world with the goal of helping each other solve their tech challenges and finding a tribe of people who shares our passions. What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? Bored this weekend?

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Netsquared Local Honolulu North Carolina 44

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ask local bakeries to offer sweets to sell to further motivate donors to purchase a treat. Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. Your donors can purchase raffle tickets for the chance to win cool prizes donated from local businesses.

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Ideas Fundraising Celebrate Hosting 95

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). We have been able to invest in community outreach to marginalized groups in order to see a more representative reflection of Utah’s population in our data sample.

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Utah Project Lesson Fundraising 105

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this blog post, I share general findings I’ve gleaned from talking to about 100 donors and nonprofits, a decent sample size of participants spread throughout the U.S. Crowdfunding provides opportunities for wider geographical reach, potentially to non-local donors with no previous connections to the fundraisers (Agrawal et al.

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Tips Donor Attitude Platform 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This can be directly asking friends and family or even finding ways to host small-scale events like a happy hour at a local bar where you can ask the community to support you. To help them fundraise you can share sample email copy , social media posts, and other copy or images they can re-purpose to make their own fundraising asks.

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Donor Fundraising Template Game 342

Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. As Amy explains in her post, local NetSquared chapters have been quickly springing up all over the world: there might even be one in your city. Offline, we take things local! read more.

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Netsquared Local Offline Chapter 43

Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. Here is just a sampling of what we have collected so far. Children from the second grade on get laptops in this program.

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Map Local Program Impact 36

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

Sample Google Drive Structure Available for Download. About the author: Annisa Wanat has 20+ years global experience in the public and nonprofit sectors, with a focus on analyzing new situations and mentoring groups to create locally relevant solutions to strength communities, organizations and institutions. 3) Conserve Resources.

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Google Conservancy Demonstration Collaboration 315

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

Perhaps you could organize a peer-to-peer knit-a-thon, an auction of hand-made knitted items, a sale of knitted products and knitting supplies (you could partner up with a local yarn producer!), Check out the sample of the book club below!) Then, think of the different types of fundraisers you might create.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Ideas Virtual 353

Greater Giving

JUNE 21, 2023

Reach out to local musicians or bands willing to donate their talent for a good cause. Promote the event through social media, local press, and your nonprofit’s network. Consider partnering with local businesses on unique sponsorship packages to cover costs and increase exposure.

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Ideas Fundraising Music Local 40

Allegiance Group

AUGUST 22, 2022

Allegiance Group uses Docker Desktop for local development and containerizing applications for uniform deployment across different environments. Using docker for local development allows each developer to get up and running much more quickly than provisioning virtual machines or servers to host applications.

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Environment Sample Local Search 52

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Speak the Local Language. Local organizations provide this local face. We can speak the local language, understand the local culture. It’s hard enough to master one geography!

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Local Organization Comparison Global 100

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. Here is just a sampling of what we have collected so far. Children from the second grade on get laptops in this program.

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Map Local Program Impact 65

Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2010

This post was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog and was written by Amy Sample Ward. Over the last few years, the NetSquared Local network (a project of TechSoup Global's) has grown from just a few groups in only a couple countries, to 70+ groups in 21+ countries!

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Netsquared Local Resource Community 54

Kindful

JUNE 3, 2021

To build a pipeline of corporate prospects, you can: Read and subscribe to your local business journal and their book of lists, especially the top employers in your area. Look at the member listing for your local chamber of commerce. The Council of Nonprofits boasts a treasure trove of free sample gift acceptance policies.

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Support Sponsor Gift Benefit 91

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding. For example, a local bike shop could donate a bike, helmet, and a voucher for a free tuneup. Look for B&Bs in unique locations, such as beachfront or mountaintop locales.

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Artist Classes Arts Local 73

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The United States has Give Local America Day (May 1, 2018). Each state organizes giving campaigns through local community foundations. $68 Provide sample email text and social media graphics and avatars to your ambassadors. million mentions on social media). 68 million was raised in 2015. Before the Giving Day: Get Organized.

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Awareness Causes Campaign Giving 206

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!

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Fun Sample Community Blogger 53

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). We have been able to invest in community outreach to marginalized groups in order to see a more representative reflection of Utah’s population in our data sample.

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Utah Project Lesson Time 52

Candid

JULY 19, 2023

Among those who increased giving, here is a sample of their responses:  “More need and granting from our non-endowed funds and donor-advised funds (DAFs.)” “We gave larger grants to long-term grant partners to cover their increased costs for the same programming.” We gave more especially to underserved and low-income populations.”

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Foundation Grant Survey Award 98

Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

USDA’s Farm to School Census The Farm to School Census tracks how schools buy food from local farmers and ranchers. In 2019, USDA conducted the third Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching the goal of improving access to local foods in schools. Migrating your.gov to Drupal 10?

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Drupal Government Websites Module 70

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Here are a few examples of challenges your organization may face: A winter storm or other climate disaster impacts your local community. Do you have sample statements and replies ready to go? When you anticipate challenges, think about cause-specific and generic ones. If not, do they know who to go to for support?

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Lesson Disaster United States Nonprofit 101

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. It uses data from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS), the nation’s largest study that tracks giving patterns among the same households over time."

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Web Romania Indiana San Francisco 175

Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2021

an out-of-town donor could be invited to a local event. Are there sample automation sequences to help you get started? Like… …a cheery, upbeat thank you message could be sent to a bereaved donor making a gift in memory of a loved one who died. … people who didn’t give could get a thank you message meant for donors. .

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email Business Guide Fundraising 124

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 8, 2009

International fundraising, UK not-for-profits, online giving, social media, message localization, chuggers, sofii.org, and more. Featuring Chad Norman, Danielle Brigida, Amy Sample Ward, Marc Pitman, Robert McAllen, Steve MacLaughlin, and Melanie Mathos.

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International Chad Fundraising Podcast 126

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Romania Facebook Campaign NGO 178

Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Ask your local donut maker to donate a portion of their proceeds on June 7 to your cause, or ask a favorite hot dog shack to give special coupons for a free or discounted frank to the folks that donate to you in a given time period. Bike-a-Thon.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie National 98

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

. —– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Nearly 18,000 people participated in the 24-hour, online fundraising event, raising more than $2 million to benefit 1,200 local nonprofits.

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Community Giving Washington Arlington 158