Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. When we first started talking about redeveloping Abbott Square as a community plaza for downtown Santa Cruz, we ran into some basic questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 8, 2018

AZCEND is a one-stop-shop for families in the Chandler/Gilbert community. AZCEND offers food boxes through their Food Bank, rent and utility assistance though the Community Action Program (CAP), and senior programs through the Chandler Senior Center and the Gilbert Community Center. and assisted with child watch.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 13, 2018

Professionally, I have become a representative of my organization in my community. My ability to listen to the concerns of others and consider the needs of everyone helps me to be a great leader in my position at Tempe Community Action Agency (TCAA.). How do you serve the world, what do they need that your talent can provide?”

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. What other organizations in your community address this need? Fully explore the landscape in your community and figure out where your organization will fit in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We all care about making a difference in our community. There is infinite demand for their services, whereas we struggle to generate demand for ours. We all work for nonprofits.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

In order to lead your ministry, provide valuable programming, and connect your community to your mission, you need adequate funds. For example, many faith-based nonprofits will use peer-to-peer fundraising to generate participant support for walkathons or 5Ks. There might be people within your own community who want to help.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

A panel of community advisors reviewed the submissions, and chose 25 finalists – all of whom won significant grants. Beyond 12 is developing the next generation of MyCoach, a mobile app that helps low-income students navigate the path to college and stay on track once they arrive, significantly enhancing graduation rates.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. Without education, Dalit children continue in the same generational work as their parents, which is generally street sweepers, leather workers, garbage workers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

She has inspired an entire community to partner with more than 184 families who now own their own homes. "Habitat has enriched my life in countless ways, and offered me the opportunity to be a part of a community of people who believe in and act on creating tangible change every day. Here's what she says about this work.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

According to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , only one in seven children who are eligible for free or subsidized school lunches receive summer meals. The concept for Range came out of one of the "Generator" sessions Caravan hosted. Range as a Resource: Lift Communities. How Range Works.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Online fundraising is extremely cost-effective compared to other types of fundraising campaigns, and our Generational Giving Report revealed that almost 55% of donors prefer to go online to make a gift. At the end of the festival, host a trivia competition to put what your community members have learned from the takeovers to the test.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They generate income for you month after month, showing with their actions that they trust you and care about the cause. If you work with children, a child’s drawing is an obvious choice. We loved getting texts from parents letting us know how proud their children were to return to school in brand new shoes.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! Read up on your ever generous, thoughtful, and talented peers and have a great weekend! In fact, it can even generate your next great idea. Did you know that play can help you, too?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! Read up on your ever generous, thoughtful, and talented peers and have a great weekend! In fact, it can even generate your next great idea. Did you know that play can help you, too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Epic Change uses their donations to provide interest-free loans to local partners to finance their community improvement efforts. Not For Sale Campaign: 27 million people in slavery worldwide today, over 50% of them children. Education And More : Has a mission to help educate the children and reduce poverty in Guatemala.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2013

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2020

The “Q&A with sgLEADERS” series on sgENGAGE aims to provide readers, including the next generation of social good leaders, with valuable insights from executives across the social good community. Today’s Q&A is with Tim Snyder, associate vice president, Alumni and Donor Services at Wake Forest University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000. According to a report by the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 450,000 people (including at least 4,000 children under five) are now at risk of severe acute malnutrition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

You don't need to open your wallet because each install generates a small amount of revenue to Save the Rain Forest. But in many places around the world, children can't attend school because there isn't a school building, teachers, or supplies. Or sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Then move out into the community to groups that support your work like churches or civic clubs. Ask community partners and collaborators for a gift. Have children? We write grants, do community assessments and help other organizations provide services in our county. We house homeless women and children.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Communities in Schools. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. American Diabetes Association.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

The Cuban people took their own destiny in their hands and altered then the future for not only themselves, but also future generations. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. Britt Bravo: Have you always done this kind of work? I was somewhat lazy in doing that work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Communities in Schools. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. American Diabetes Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Jen Fu Cheng | Peak Potential Climbing | Fairfield, NJ Peak Potential is an organization running a 12-week introduction to rock climbing for children with physical disabilities. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6. Twitter: @PeakClimb ) 7. Twitter: @PDXJrScientists ) 16. Twitter: @cityhallfellows ) 17. Twitter: @americasvoice ) 20.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. They face the possibility of losing their home when redevelopment threatens. We are NOT a shelter.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

They have children, they’re doing all of this. That should be one of the expectations of the board members because that is going to give them a true picture of what it means to serve the clients in the community. We did a Halloween event where we served thousands of community kids. They’re busy just like you.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

This word cloud was generated based on all 456 fundraising email subject lines. Best Innovation in Graphics: This one goes to Lifeline Children’s Services for showing a giving pyramid inside the email noting how many gifts of each level they had received and still needed to get. Countdown for our children. Keep fighting.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Mustard Seed Communities. Save the Children. Top Nonprofit Website: Mustard Seed Communities. Since 1978, Mustard Seed Communities has cared for vulnerable populations across the globe. Their organization’s mission is to nourish the most in-need members of the community through the best medicine there is — healthy food!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

This word cloud was generated based on all 445 fundraising email subject lines. Give Hope to Children this Holiday Season. Happy Holidays from Boston Children’s Hospital. We will stand for children. Our gift to you – heartwarming news on community collaborations, events, & new programs.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

You can see whether any fundraising channels are costing your organization more money than they’re generating. In another study, researchers tested two versions of a brochure for the Save the Children charity organization. Using this metric, you can determine your most successful events, fundraising channels, and donor types.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

There's the "program" side that wants to tell you all the amazing ways your programs help save homeless pets, feed the hungry, find cures, protect our children, or empower women. And don't forget the "communications" side, whose press releases and news items help raise awareness. There's the "events" side that must sell tickets.

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