Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Examples: WorldChanging: knowledge prodution and sharing. 350: robust advocacy. Started with mega trends of social media and green living. Green or Sustainability? Examples: National Phrenology Network: asking people to report blooming data in their area.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

CEO Julian Green said that the proceeds will be put toward product development and expanding the company’s workforce. But in an interview with TechCrunch, Green argued that videoconferencing as it exists for most companies today simply can’t replace the intimacy of small, focused meeting groups.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

In the nonprofit advocacy world, we’re used to having to fire people up. As the idea of a school walkout and the March for our Lives took shape, advocacy organizations like Everytown for Gun Safety offered to help with logistics and planning , but the students themselves still led the work. Let the grassroots be grassroots!

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Care2

OCTOBER 16, 2011

If your nonprofit doesn’t have a solid outreach strategy to cultivate women donors and activists, your organization is missing out on huge opportunities to grow your advocacy and donor base. For example. Green living. Reaching out to women should never be an afterthought. What are they interested in? Water Sports.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

Priebatsch even proposed how school could be improved by adding better game mechanics than those that already exist: for example, having a points system that allows you to "level up" rather than our current grading-average system, and building in an honor system to eliminate cheating ( as Princeton has done , with huge success).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

Fortunately, by using a green investing approach, you can find ways to save for retirement and also save the planet. For example, you can invest in a mutual fund that makes it a goal to purchase stocks or bonds only from companies that are doing the right thing. is involved in green or socially responsible investing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Addressing the challenges Working closely with Project Relate users, it became clear that personalized models can be very useful, but for many users, recording dozens or hundreds of examples can be challenging. Example audio and transcriptions of a trusted tester’s speech from the Real Conversation test set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& He got us together on the phone to discuss and design the panel in a month in advance, reviewed slides, help get us organized on-site and gave us some great last minute tips in the green room.& & & Rachel and Erin spoke about advocacy applications.&

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

“Girlboss” originally gained popularity beyond Amoruso’s book as a form of praise, according to Kirsten Green, co-founder and investor at Forerunner Ventures. The term itself, though, hasn’t aged nearly as well as Green’s portfolio. Years later, even Amoruso herself has expressed discomfort with the phrase.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

For now, it seems VanMoof will not be forcing a region reset onto existing e-bike owners through something like a firmware update, for example. “If European bicycle advocacy group LEVA-EU (European Light Electric Vehicle Association) says the current regulations are stifling e-bike adoption in Europe.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

All advocacy campaigns, social media links, and other engagement opportunities should be relevant and available for your audience to get involved with directly on your website. For example, if you haven’t reviewed and refreshed your content strategy in ten years, then your website design may also look outdated. Typography.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For example, suppose you know that a supporter has attended many of your nonprofit’s events in the past. For example, an animal shelter might have a segment of supporters who prefer dogs and another for those who prefer cats. The ability to personalize donor outreach. Your dashboard.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

One example of this (there are many others) came from Veena Dubal, a civil rights attorney and labor researcher at University of California Berkeley. There are some great examples of social good from innovative models in the sharing economy. What role does the social sector play? Where Nonprofits Fit in the Sharing Economy.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

Last year, I moderated a panel at Women in Green in Pasadena, CA. I asked both women to talk about how they apply the lens of gender when planning advocacy campaigns, building coalitions, and marketing their programs. There are many examples like this; perhaps you have some from your own organization.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. Much of leadership is advocacy for your team, and it's hard to do that without understanding their work. And set the right example by not doing it yourself, either.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

For nonprofits interested in engaging supporters in online advocacy, this is especially true. While WWF’s climate change work is ongoing and touches many policy areas, this blog post shares specific examples from a three-week campaign window in 2015. Urging House leadership to support the Green Climate Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Already, some of our advocacy work is progressing in large part because of savvy use of social media (see our blog about chemicals and toxics ). We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2011

Author: We've all heard that internet marketing and fundraising efforts can be amplified by going to where your target audience spends its time (most recently the examples used here are social networking sites and popular Web pages), and adovcacy campaigns are no different. The result: that bag looks heavy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As not all organisations have climate action integrated into their strategy yet, let’s have a look at five key ways the nonprofit sector can help to solve the climate crisis — and concrete examples of intersectional initiatives that are already happening. Learner juggling caretaking with school work. Innovate Solutions to Address the Crisis.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The first example gets the message across, but it’s somewhat dry and dull, and the donation request feels like a gentle suggestion. On the other hand, the second example uses urgency, a timeline, and power words to inspire immediate action. What key ingredient is missing in the first example? Include images of people.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

SEIU supported Coworker.org , a digital political advocacy organization that lobbies for policy change and helped create the Workers’ Lab. For example, local CWA 7777 president Duncan Harrington opened his office in 2004 to immigrant taxi drivers so that they could talk about creating a different kind of business that is less exploitative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. And if these high caliber players can make progress on challenges like the diversity in the work or attribution for advocacy efforts we can all celebrate and use the tools.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Here are just two examples from organizations that I found to be most successful and effective. Convio : Convio provides marketing, fundraising, advocacy and donor database tools that helps an organization take advantage of the inherent effectiveness and efficiency of the Internet to motivate donors and other supporters. www.karma411.com.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. I asked some of my colleagues for some examples of how they use TechSoup donations. They said you want an example? They really couldn't come up with an example. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. Images: Braided River.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. I asked some of my colleagues for some examples of how they use TechSoup donations. They said you want an example? They really couldn't come up with an example. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. Images: Braided River.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos. For example, Daily Kos created a wiki. Described the features and content. Conclusion.

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For example, you might create a dropdown menu for donation amount options. For example, donations in the form of bids are unique to charity auction fundraisers. For example, Facebook’s famous birthday fundraisers allow supporters to fundraise on behalf of their preferred nonprofit.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

It’s exceedingly rare to see fast e-bikes known as speed-pedelecs in my Amsterdam home, for example, where half of all new bikes sold are electric, and bicycles outnumber people by a lot. S-pedelecs could help accelerate European initiatives to green our cities and reclaim all of that space allocated to idling cars.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The Portland Hotel Society provides housing and advocacy for the "hardest to house": people with mental illness, physical disabilities, HIV/AIDS, a record of criminal activity, and drug addiction. For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6%

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