NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Such resources should include sample solicitation letters for mail and email, quick stats and impact statements for social media, sample scripts for phone calls, and thank you letters for follow-up communications. Everyone appreciates being acknowledged for the work they’ve done, and event fundraisers are no different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013.

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Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101

M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For one nonprofit we work with, individual donors who give between $1,000–$99,000 make up less than 1% of the overall donor base, but they contribute an amount that is equal to the entire small donor program. Sample impact report from Oxfam America. . . And it’s a big loss! What is the speed of upgrade? What is their lifetime value?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. You can work with your local nurseries and local parks to provide a place for the trees to be planted. Offer saplings that are indigenous to your area for your supporters to purchase for planting.

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Ideas Fundraising Celebrate Hosting 95

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

You can connect with her on Facebook, or her blog Work it Out!~Fitness Heather Meyer, Work it Out!: When I first started teaching dance fitness, I approached it with a more serious attitude, as I had found my strength studying martial arts. Over time, I realized how much more enjoyable it was to 'have fun’ while ‘working out.’

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

One place I worked saw appeals with notes get a 30%+ rate of return vs. a 4% return from appeals without notes! . Ask them if they’ll write a brief handwritten note on the next appeal you mail (give them a few sample notes). Sandy Rees found inserting envelopes generated about $20,000 a year at a food bank where she worked.

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Action Donor Tips Fundraising 127

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. For example, you might seek board members who have former leadership experience, work well within a team, and are impeccably organized and punctual. Further, a Concord Group Study found that 49% of nonprofits don’t have a strategic plan.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

One notable difference when looking at Giving Tuesday year to year is when these emails are sent: every group in our sample sent at least one email before the special day, with groups sending as many as three pre-Giving Tuesday emails. Your phone is blowing up with texts because, well, they work. Related Links.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

They “consume” or “buy” who you are, what you do, the values you stand for, and how you approach your work and treat the people you work with. Seriously, when you reframe your work this way everyone wins. Earning trust is work. Be as realistic as possible; then work to go above and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

As someone who works in the nonprofit sector, I understand the importance of giving - and trying to pass that down to my kids. I was curious about my colleagues, who work for nonprofits and are parents, what do they do to encourage their children's spirit of giving at a young age? Name your children after them.

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Teach Causes Philanthropy Giving 50

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?” For instance, you might offer: A course on personalized fundraising communication to help your fundraisers advance their careers and start working with major donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

I just had the honor of being part of a new leaders group studying how different generations were leading in the work force and we found there were lots of differences between where people were in life. In the work place, what I love about Millennials is that they seemed really focused on their passions, not necessarily their professions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

And little did I know that Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk were planning one hell of a surprise party! But they also asked to share how I've impacted their work , and by pointing that out has been created a very meaningful birthday gift. I got to teach two back to back sessions of the class and it was exhilarating.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? You’ll be working with this partner frequently and potentially for an extended period of time as your learning business grows.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founders of Yahoo! Rapid prototyping —developing a rapid prototype sample product or service and getting it out there quickly to test customer response, then seizing on that feedback to tweak, overhaul, or completely abandon their breakout offering.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It’s about approaching work from a place of sharing and abundance rather than self-absorption and scarcity. I consider myself a teacher: I take a few days off a year to teach at American University, and I do a lot of public speaking and training. Vain, because if you teach, you believe you have something important to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Finding and sharing cool content is great, but to do it strategically in a way that makes your organization’s work more effective is tough. Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward. Find the 1 to 3 that work for you and use them.”. So I’d like to dig in a bit more.”. Many are good, some are better, some are horrid.

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Content Network Strategy Slideshare 112

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. While interviewing the organizers for a magazine, I heard how they worked with young women who had rarely or never felt good about their bodies and were in detention on charges related to prostitution and drug sales. The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes. Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) We are a field of people who truly care about our work. We are not in this for the 9-5, and most of us work well beyond the average work week. Hello World! Or maybe hello museum world!

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Museum Reflection Seattle Children 51

Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Teach Supporters to Fundraise and Provide Samples. Provide samples of everything. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Recommend focusing on events that raise the most money for the least amount of work. Provide fundraising success stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

They get emerging media and are ready to teach. Millennials – We know they are young, tech savvy and well-educated-but they are also some of the most active when it comes to donating and volunteering. Millennials have the potential to bring a lot of value in leadership to nonprofits from within.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 7, 2013

This usually elicits some looks of shock and surprise until I elaborate further and explain that I’m not proposing that they cease to engage the community in their work through volunteerism but, rather, that they modify how they think about volunteers in their organization. They also share that they felt wanted and appreciated.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founder of Yahoo! Rapid prototyping —developing a rapid prototype sample product or service and getting it out there quickly to test customer response, then seizing on that feedback to tweak, overhaul, or completely abandon their breakout offering. Do more than dream: work.

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Leadership San Diego Yahoo Advice 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Beth practices what she teaches (and let's others watch and participate as she does it). I feel like I should be giving you this award for all you work to support the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and sharing the very valuable information on your blog! Beth works in the arts and nonprofits world.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? Going beyond, I think that we can look not just at our goals, but also at the passion we use to fuel our work. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org. Are you fueling with love?

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Change Nepal Lesson New Jersey 180

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. The first step in the process of assessing these documents was a pilot project to sample them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Lux Mean works for the IRI. How did you start working with Cambodians on technology training projects? Here's a sampling of some of the "Clogs." He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. His english language blog can be found here. First of all, tell me about yourself?

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Interview Cambodia Teach Language 50

NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Over the years my family and I have worked together to help my Grandmother get wired. Below is a list of resources, including the tools my Grandmother is already using, that can help you to teach a retired friend or relative how to get the most out of the internet. . Thanks for sharing this resource, Amy Sample Ward !

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). The Internet makes this so easy now, but what's even more fun is to step away from the computer and go out and find artists where they work, live and exhibit. We bond over our mutual humanity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. He works with organizational leaders to expand their sense of what is possible online and to innovate and succeed.

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Mobile Conference Resource Social 99

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

In fact, their web content management , email management , and constituent relationship management needs (which I am working to address on a strategic level) are shockingly complex, because all of these initiatives work in very different ways toward very broad goals.

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Massachusetts Museum Library History 56

Forj

APRIL 24, 2018

They have little time, they can usually find most information they need, and they often work at institutions that already provide free access to incredible information resources. Connect your content to their work. They are, as a group, capable, self-directed learners. This is the crux of the issue.

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San Antonio Tips Technique Articulate 20

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. What is a movement?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. I think about innovation and the work about innovation in education in two ways: first, if you have something that is significantly better than the status quo and you are doing it with a few kids, that’s an invention. The long tail is very real.

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Game Education Change Classroom 132

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. 5) Online classes.

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