Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why Community? So, why community? That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the past, many foundations viewed collaboration as a speed bump. Collaborations, after all, take time. But at a time when many foundations are looking for creative ways to address the overlapping crises of COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change, they are viewing collaboration much differently. Why Collaborate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

Video collaboration with Sony artists Marc Scibilia and voice over by Water.org co-founder Matt Damon. 2) Website articles offered specific examples of how the communities served by Water.org were being impacted and offered users ways to help. Watch Video.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Investing in education has an incredible multiplier effect as it leads to increased prosperity not just for individuals, but also for their communities and societies. But the 2014 Global Philanthropy Forum clearly highlighted the role that the philanthropic community can play in affecting this shift. It provides returns for decades.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

Despite the need to address this gap, PhotoDNA and related tools are currently facing attacks from both tech sector policies (like expanded adoption of end-to-end encryption ) and government regulation (such as the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive ).

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Law Government Philippines Tech 105

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2013

There is a long history of nonprofit organizations partnering with the government, usually at the state level, through contracts to help provide for and respond to community needs. Still, changing terms mid-contract does little to help establish trust for a positive nonprofit/government relationship. sector and the government.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! Let’s start at the beginning: what is “community-driven social impact” anyway? CDSI is not something that you thought up inside your organization, even if you thought it up with your community in mind or at heart. Presentation.

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Although much of our work over the past year and a half has focused on providing immediate support to communities acutely impacted by the pandemic, we’re on a mission to build a thriving San Francisco in the months and years ahead. Their work and in-depth knowledge of the communities they serve have fostered critical networks of care.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

As income disparity continues to grow , many nonprofits are struggling to meet overwhelming community need amid the stark realities of funding cuts. Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Systems-level collaboration.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

Charity Village

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Unifor Social Justice Fund is a registered charity governed by the Unifor Board of Directors.

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Proposal Fund Social Advocacy 128

.orgSource

AUGUST 6, 2024

Perhaps your organization is one of those tradition-bound groups with a history that has been a decades-long cast iron model for culture, governance, and operations. Encourage Collaboration Collaboration is a critical aspect of change management. “A Maybe you are not keen on becoming a butterfly.

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Change Oracle Evaluation Jordan 221

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

If you are an organization or group that wants to catalyze and support community-generated projects or you are someone that wants to get involved, I hope this is a format you can take and run with. And I want to share it with you, get your ideas, and start a long-term process of collaboratively improving and refining this model.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Everything was immediately canceled so that we could help the restaurant community through the crisis at hand,” Kristine noted. That trust building between our members and government officials continues today.” There were multiple areas where collaboration helped to ease the hardship. That day, all our plans blew out the window.

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Milwaukee Story Share Wisconsin 221

Candid

MAY 9, 2024

These trends are a direct result of the “redlining” of communities of color for generations, which prevented investment dollars from improving those communities and encouraging homeownership. Many of these cities are tackling the issue of housing and homeownership to create a more equitable economy in their communities.

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Community Memphis Tennessee Minnesota 98

Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

Redesigning a government agency or department website is no small task. Here are the essential areas to focus on when taking on a government website redesign. Forum One works with local, state and federal government agencies. Forum One works with local, state and federal government agencies. This gets at the requirements.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Board members are a vital resource for nonprofits: In addition to their responsibility for governance, they each bring unique perspectives and experiences to enrich the growth of nonprofit organizations and partnerships. She finished high school and decided to go to community college.

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Mexico Ecuador Organization America 93

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen an uptick in funding possibilities within your field. COVID-19 took the world by surprise, and along with it came a government response with unprecedented spending and a massive increase in grant funding.

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Government Local Fund Report 89

Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

Traditionally, nonprofit governance has been perceived through a hierarchical lens, with board members primarily overseeing and guiding the organization’s direction while staff execute the operational tasks. My experience with Candid reinforced the notion that the best work gets done when the board and staff collaborate closely.

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Government Collaboration Nonprofit Evaluation 59

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

The nonprofit sector has the ability to achieve significant social change through collaboration across sectors. Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007). When the U.S.

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Collaboration Build Homeless Arizona 74

VisionLink

APRIL 9, 2020

In the face of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD), Visionlink’s Disaster Technologies Division and Sterling Volunteers are partnering in a public-private pro bono effort to help state governments and non-profit agencies mobilize the desire of Americans to provide help from a safe distance.

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Help Disaster Connecticut Government 130

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. Learn how to speak publicly and eloquently about the organization and offer to speak to community organizations, mutual aid organizations, clubs, coalitions, or commissions. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2023

Starting on page 6, with the fact that weather-related disasters are clearly on the rise, it is now increasingly important that our government agencies continue to help fund and guide mitigation and resilience-building efforts. Working together we all work better.

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National Report Disaster Government 130

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Thanks again to Stephanie, Shannon and Paul for inviting me to be part of the conference and putting on such a valuable opportunity for the community! As for tactics, well, we mostly relied on “proven” or “successful” efforts; lessons learned from other organizations working in an analog paradigm like government, unions, and churches.

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Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

VisionLink

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This year's event provides a forum for organizations to communicate and collaborate with other emergency management partners and state/national disaster response non-profits, government agencies, and practitioners from across the emergency management community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

I’m guilty of calling our community on the social web selfish because what it means is that anything we put out, it needs to be useful for them. Wendy : If nothing else, Millennials are collaborative. I think collaboration and turning organizations inside out is the way organizations will operate in the future.

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Discussion Generation Donor Structure 211

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

In other words, the effectiveness of the charitable work ultimately falls to how the nonprofit is governed. The question then turns to this: how can nonprofits structure their governance based on their organizational and lifecycle needs? 378) (Brown, 2005, p. 330) (Bradshaw, 2009, p. 1996, 370-73).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. Seldom has the world seen greater promise or greater peril.

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Collaboration Challenge Hunger Kenya 75

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

It is still far more common for a nonprofit to close its doors because of financial pressure, which is increasing as governments continue to pare their budgets and donors maintain tight grips on their giving. But, it isn’t just Malaria No More, and it isn’t just those organizations and communities in The Pollyanna Principles.

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Change New York Exercise Chapter 203

Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2022

Embarking on an analytics project will naturally result in a focus on data quality and data governance. Communication. Visibility/Collaboration. Collaborate with others inside and outside of your team. Show data and reports to colleagues, especially ones you don’t usually collaborate with.

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Analytics Chapter Associations Data 169

Candid

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Those who gift significant resources to well-known individuals—who have limited experience leading community or population-based programming—also give them the power to decide to whom those dollars should be regranted within communities. technology and think tank conferences on diverse topics).

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Nonprofit Philanthropy Government Gift 93

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every topic we’ve focused on throughout the inaugural season of Force Multiplier has had a single common thread: the imperative for cross-sector collaboration to solve a big problem. Radical collaboration will drive tangible, lasting results in the realm of climate change, says Jennifer Morris, CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC).

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Collaboration Change Conservancy United States 72

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Impact California Conservancy Bolivia 116

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the key qualities and skills you look for in potential board members?” They should be dedicated to serving our community and willing to go the extra mile to make a positive impact. That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members.

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Skills Children Collaboration DC 104

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2021

And unprecedented challenges require unprecedented collaboration from leaders across every sector. Baratunde Thurston (BT): Collaboration! I’m very excited to explore climate change since to me that’s the biggest issue requiring the most collaboration. None of us can solve these problems alone. So inspiring. Cristina Jones.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As AI becomes increasingly prevalent, CSO leaders must establish robust policy frameworks that prioritize the interests of their beneficiaries and communities while upholding principles of equity, inclusivity, and social justice. CSO leaders must create structured guidelines for AI integration to address risks and ensure ethical deployment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Information found in Form 990s, like other important data collected by governments, could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but ‘open’ data. Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation.

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