Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. There are 12,000 to 14,000 classroom project requests on the site at a time.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Engaged student and alum supporter: My daughter gets very excited when she hears talk about the university she attended. That’s because her school did a great job of engaging her while she was still a student. Engaged student and alum turned non-supporter: My husband used to be very engaged with his university.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media. Why TweetsGiving? This year, the Epic Change team are working on building a technology lab there.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Increase Collaboration and Engagement for Students, Faculty, and Staff. Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. In addition, workflows help set up students for success with Slack and other learning tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We are a very heartful organization and a lot of what we do is thanks to an incredible group of volunteers. Find out more in the interview below!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We are a very heartful organization and a lot of what we do is thanks to an incredible group of volunteers. Find out more in the interview below!

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Interview Change Tanzania Africa 108

Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Operating in over 50 regions across the country, TFA finds, develops, and supports a diverse network of leaders who expand opportunity for children across classrooms, schools, and any sector or field that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate. Success Story: Creating Engaging Student Journeys With St.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

posted by Kathy Renfro Graduate Student ASU Master of Nonprofit Management and Leadership program Nonprofit assignments can place volunteers in precarious positions of potential, personal liability. Prior to the 1940s, the Charitable Immunity Doctrine shielded nonprofits from tort liability, but did not protect volunteers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Parents would often appear near the door of this classroom. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. Executive Director.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. Talking with Volunteer Administrators.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 4, 2011

About eighteen months ago, I was standing outside a Thai classroom in the open courtyard of an elementary school in Bangkok, watching from a second-story perch as Thai children "marched" in the center recreation area. Perched outside that classroom, I suddenly felt an overpowering sense of pride to have been born a U.S. on their own.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

posted by Kathy Renfro Graduate Student ASU Master of Nonprofit Management and Leadership program. Nonprofit assignments can place volunteers in precarious positions of potential, personal liability. Prior to the 1940s, the Charitable Immunity Doctrine shielded nonprofits from tort liability, but did not protect volunteers.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Finally, consistent engagement from supporters — whether volunteers or donors — is a consistent gauge of the program’s success and the organization’s successful culture. Live audiences, musicians, composers, students, funders, the community?) Applause, surveys, comments at the venue, return visits, media reviews, other feedback?)

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Brainstorm story angles with your Board, staff, and volunteers. See what types of stories they cover.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

For students, teachers, parents, and guardians across the nation, the arrival of August signals the end of summer vacation and the arrival of back-to-school season. From tissue boxes and hand sanitizer to markers and notebook paper, every classroom needs resources to support their students and that’s where you can help.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

In light of that trend and all the recent travel upheaval due to COVID – 19, with increasing restrictions being placed on companies and their global workforce, we wanted to address creative alternatives to traditional volunteer events. . Skills-Based Volunteering.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

It was the United States Peace Corps’ mission of world peace and friendship and its intention to promote mutual understanding between Americans and foreign peoples that drew me to apply as a volunteer for the agency.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Jay Bowman is a deacon in his church and leads a small volunteer tech support team called their technology ministry. Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab. In the school there are two PCs in each classroom, and the 12-station computer lab is used mostly for research.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

I’m a grad student, after all! And being a grad student means I’ve got more than a few limitations, economically speaking. It leverages the power of the people, turning volunteers into fundraisers. Each classroom teacher sends updates about their project and writes special thank you notes for your support.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 29, 2022

From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they are reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, lead, thrive, and co-create a future filled with possibility. Success Story: The University of Alabama at Birmingham: Transforming Student Journeys Through Salesforce.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

While this post focuses on donor reports, see this link to learn more about reports on volunteer activities. Once you’ve uploaded your donor or volunteer data, you can access an easy-to-understand interface and highly intuitive reporting templates. Students impacted: 59,434 students have benefited from the foundation’s programs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

Staff or volunteers can reach their databases remotely while conducting outreach in the community. Schools can extend access beyond classroom walls to students without technology resources at home. Schools can extend access beyond classroom walls to students without technology resources at home.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2014

There’s probably a specific classroom you remember from those earlier days, and a teacher who left a huge impact on your life. After all, their organization was built to provide programs that help students in the classroom by providing resources and making education interesting. And PENCIL, Inc.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 21 - 24.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. If the donor’s gift was used for food for a pantry, a video of a volunteer filling bags with tomato soup, saltines, and other staples will tell the story without having to find a pantry guest willing to be filmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2010

The project that I volunteered at with fifteen other Convio employees was a classroom makeover for a local Austin school, Gus Garcia Middle School. Communities in Schools works with other nonprofit organizations to bring programs into schools to help students with academics, social issues, counseling, mentoring, and financial support.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. How can we develop programming that encourages students to make connections with kids of other ages or from other parts of our County?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) and a bunch of volunteers. We taught our NetCorps students skills such as running meetings, performing needs assessments, project management, etc. Many of our students ended up staying in the sector after they graduated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

The inspiration piece comes from community volunteers who not only deliver lessons to young students, but also share their professional experience. In the process, these volunteers serve as role models helping positively shape young people’s perceptions about the importance of education, as well as critical life skills.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 30, 2023

The inspiration piece comes from community volunteers who not only deliver lessons to young students, but also share their professional experience. In the process, these volunteers serve as role models helping positively shape young people’s perceptions about the importance of education, as well as critical life skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A typical Chicago Underground Library (CUL) volunteer meeting starts something like this: New volunteers arrive for orientation at 6:30pm, some a little late because they got lost in the 100-year old parish house where we occupy the lobby of a fringe theater company on the second floor.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

.” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum. And so we identified this desire, right? We listened to them.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. Gateway’s website has a simple, clean layout that’s instantly understandable.

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Achieve

AUGUST 19, 2015

In addition, a thank-you phone call from a volunteer, staff or board member may also come your way. This ranges from meeting with a staff member, helping spread their mission via social media to volunteering with direct services. Bonus points if it includes a handwritten note expressing additional gratitude. You’ve donated.

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