Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

One of the participants was Ericha Hager, the Regional Collaborative Coordinator for Community Media Access Partnership. After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California.

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Community Impact Media Game 195

CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

And we couldn’t think of a better organization to highlight than Spur Local. Spur Local blew it out of the water last year with their Give Local Together Campaign. About Spur Local Spur Local (formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy), is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities in the Greater Washington region.

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Local Campaign Giving Story 96

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups. 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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Project Remix Collaboration Wiki 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Note from Beth: Last week I was in New Orleans for the National Assembly of State Arts Councils meeting. I facilitated a peer session with Public Information Officers and a Mini-Workshop on managing and measuring a social media presence. LightBox Collaborative is very proud to present our 5th Annual Editorial Calendar.

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Calendar Collaboration Strategy Tools 106

Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a healthy chapter program requires strong, ongoing collaboration between your association’s headquarters and chapters. The foundation of successful collaboration is a strong relationship. It can also give chapters access to data that they can use to improve their local member engagement. Develop relationships.

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Chapter Collaboration National Local 78

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. ( How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? And I use hashtags in blog entries! ). But I’m still bored silly.

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Social Media Media Social Nptech 211

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. The community will see that you aren’t making changes, aren’t communicating, and aren’t collaborating and will disengage. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well.

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Library Community Collaboration Model 241

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Romania Campaign Facebook NGO 178

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Collaboration Learning Online Exercise 93

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).

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Collaboration Build Homeless Nonprofit 74

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

I appreciate this opportunity to talk about ClientTrack and its ability to promote effective collaborations. Optimizes collaborations within and between organizations. How does CT define “collaboration&# and what is so important about it? And that’s what effective collaborations among community providers do.

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Interview Collaboration Community Grant 144

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But what are the locals excited about on the ground? However, one said: “The ecosystem still lacks local funding for the late Series A and beyond rounds.”. I think local tech investors are taking more risks and becoming global scene players. Moreover, the local investor community is quite dynamic. Rokas Tamoši?

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Lithuania Local International Share 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact.

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Change Build Social Facilitation 115

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We highlight and support their work by connecting teams with local Net Tuesday groups (for feedback, presentations), foundation and nonprofit organizations (to help implement technologies in the real world), and the larger community (for new ideas and collaborations).

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India Network Netsquared Offline 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2011

The agency was created by local nonprofit agencies to address the preparedness and response needs of service providers — whose consumers are among the most vulnerable people in any community. Together, they formed CARD – Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters. CARD is a nonprofit agency, based in Oakland California.

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Disaster Oakland Donation Training 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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Change Review Social Media Network 108

Candid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

When members collaborate and combine their efforts, they can advance a common goal and enhance civic engagement. Some join simply to learn about community needs, while others organize education sessions about local legislation affecting grantee organizations.

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Action Giving Empowerment Philanthropy 59

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Collective Impact requires collaborating organizations to: Identify a common goal: Understand a problem and the pathway to solve it together.

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Impact Raleigh Collaboration Facilitation 98

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2009

I’m really looking forward to the 2 June event for London Net Tuesday where David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and I will facilitate a new iteration of the Social by Social Game! It will be a mix of collaboration and competition that should give you lots of practical ideas that you can use in your own projects. Date: Tuesday, 2 June.

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Social Game Fun Facilitation 100

VisionLink

DECEMBER 6, 2009

The goal of the National Breakthrough Network is to increase the capacity of service delivery through collaborative data exchange across the country, one community at a time. The National Breakthrough Network is convened and facilitated by VisionLink where practitioners learn from and teach one another.

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National Network Voice Measure 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. We'll soon be unveiling a full set of tools to let you manage your local event and build a strong local climate group in the lead-up to 24 October."

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Offline Community Organization Online 88

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024, Chainalysis screened more than 250 million transfers and $4 trillion in transactions, identifying 6,500 unique entities and collaborating with more than 1,300 customers worldwide. The result is sharper decision-making and accelerated clinical trial planning to facilitate faster drug development.

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Data Companies Analysis Analytics 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook.

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Miami Giving Raise Nonprofit 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Journal 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

I gave a keynote about the Human Side of Data for Good and facilitated a mini-innovation lab to brainstorm creative ideas around the challenge of communicating about the value of shared data and becoming the community knowledge center for shared data for donors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders. Data Facilitation'

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Reflection Conference Learning Homeless 114

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

Giving 150 local communities £1 million each with no strings attached: This is the leap of faith the National Lottery Community Fund took in 2012 when it established a nonprofit organisation called Local Trust to deliver Big Local, a programme that puts money directly into the hands of communities across the UK.

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Place Fund Tech Local 98

sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

The OneCause guide to awareness campaigns recommends researching local businesses in your area that have similar values and missions, as they are more likely to understand the issue your organization is working to solve and how it’s affecting the community. It’s a win-win situation!

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Awareness Campaign Business Social Media 96

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. It recognizes that leadership can emerge from anyone within a group and emphasizes collaboration, trust, and inclusivity.

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Foundation Leadership Roles Community 96

Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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Resource Accessibility Community Nonprofit 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Social Media Media Social Collaboration 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Rwanda Social Media Leadership Train 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

We recently wrapped up our 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions event here at Classy. The Classy team created engaging content that Collaborative participants could use in their professional lives. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event.

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Virtual Professional Fundraising Marketing 105

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Yet, we have found the strength of our team sits beyond our domain expertise of community feeding, and into our ability to serve as a facilitator and mediator between diverse stakeholders in San Francisco. Each new program our team launches relies upon the collective impact and organizing power of a number of organizations and collaborators.

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San Francisco Community Model Build 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Simultaneously, collaboration and “networking” is becoming the new norm, rather than the exception. Collaboration grants to support projects and partnerships that reached across sector, field, issue, and constituency. The Pioneers program is anchored in the belief that the larger social justice field must shift to a “2.0”

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Network Social Build Social Media 107

Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. Founded in 2015 by Salesforce.org in collaboration with Davos Middle School, Davos Codes believes the voices of the youth need to be front and center in the fight for climate justice.

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Voice Global Student Charlotte 98

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. Engage with local organizations and associations. Collaborate with professional associations, industry groups, and affinity networks relevant to your organization’s mission and sector.

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Director Guide Nonprofit Metrics 105