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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Maher gives a preview to her testimony, sharing how funding cuts would impact Americans broad access to crucial news and information, particularly in rural and local areas. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian. It is a public radio program.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

.&# You can learn more about Scott and the work ClientTrack is doing in the interview below. —– Scott Anderson is the Director of Communications for DSI, the developer of ClientTrack. He earned his PhD in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin. make facile, or easy”) the information sharing process.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? And in each local place, people are on different types of social media, some of which are global in scope. From @davidahood: agree with @neddotcom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Another part of my position is coaching the volunteers to embrace social media and use it to mobilize their volunteer base and communicate our message in their communities. 4) Empower the volunteers to work with local vendors when they plan events to secure Facebook Place deals and special promotions on Foursquare. (5)

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The Next Web

JULY 6, 2013

You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community. If you’re motivated enough to start your own business and create something great from a simple idea, then you’re certainly motivated enough to jumpstart a local startup community. Why worry about a startup community?

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” It has been increasingly difficult to not only recruit and retain skilled staff, but just to get them to the interview process! ” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I found the project so interesting that I wanted to share it with you here in an interview, covering some key questions from Kedar. Community production: Encouraging entrepreneurs to find community solutions to meet the localized needs. —– Kedar is an activist of sustainable living and collaborative creation.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

She finished high school and decided to go to community college. With experience working in both two-year and four-year colleges, as well as dedicated time spent volunteering in her local community, she accepted the position in 2022, and was excited to be a part of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation again — now as a staff member.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. Finally, M-Changa seeks to build trust from both local and international donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Create Community Dialogue. Multimedia Storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, watch the 2020 Raise the Region Gala from the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia: ?. In addition to offering chat, make a local phone number available to your viewers during the program. 7) End your recorded event with a brief live interview. 4) Live chat with your viewers.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Find space in your email calendar, swap social media accounts for a day, and line up media interviews. Last year, Spur Local partnered with the community to host several creative events around GivingTuesday that were mutually beneficial for both local business and their organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

Ask a community leader, activist or educator to write an article related to your organization’s mission and programs. If you get written up in a magazine or the local paper, write a couple of short paragraphs about it and link to the article. Interview experts, volunteers, donors and board members. You get the idea.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Successful businesses often leverage a simple concept: become better members of the community and reap the benefits of increased profit in the form goodwill. How many times have you seen a local shop serving as a drop-off point for donations to a homeless shelter or food bank? Or donating a percentage of their sales to a local charity?

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Through Peer Support Groups, warriors connect with each other, work to overcome challenges, and develop a renewed sense of community. The following is an interview with Peer Support Group Leader Joel Grace from Montgomery, AL about his experience as a leader during this challenging year. We generally had 20-30 warriors at each meeting.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Press releases and press conferences, letters to the editor, calls into talk radio and interviews with journalists… getting coverage of your non-profit and getting your message out through the press is the essence of good PR. Raising General Awareness: Good PR raises awareness in the community about your non-profit and the work you do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

I sat down for an interview to learn more about her work at Facebook and tips for nonprofits. On Facebook, people connect with friends, family, their communities and the issues and causes they care about most. We have also started hosting local nonprofit meetups in different cities in the US to engage with nonprofit partners.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

We are a community that is always in beta, that’s how you get things done,” says Kalu Yala’s founder Jimmy Stice. The event was put together in under two months, thanks to the efforts of the local community, The Gunn Hill foundation, Advance Camps, Kalu Yala’s 10-person team, and 35 volunteers from Kalu Yala’s internship alumni pool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

If an issue relevant to your mission and programs (local, national, or international) is in the news, write up a summary of the issue, add your commentary with a call-to-action (CTA), and then share your post to your online communities and in your e-newsletter. 7) Tell the story of a community served by your nonprofit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Using it, customers can see where visitors to a location migrate and move at the street level and track the tourism effects on locally owned businesses. Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. Image Credits: Zartico. or to places.”

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You can use tools like surveys, interviews, or data analytics to understand this (more on that below). While every audience is different, and you know your community of supporters best, few can argue with the fact that videos tend to perform remarkably well across all kinds of platforms from campaign pages, to social media, to your website.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Adding to this feat, is the impressive story of how a small collective of 20-somethings raised $40 million dollars from more than 40 people and pulled it off with the local county’s blessing in the form of an additional $18.5 million infrastructure bond to refurbish local roads, sewer and water systems.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This Q&A series aims to provide readers with valuable insights from changemakers across the social impact community. Traveling the country, meeting these extraordinary individuals, and helping them craft resumes and participate in mock interviews opened my eyes to the incredible work being done by nonprofits also in this space.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Interviews should be followed by safety training and onboarding for each volunteer. Automation also ensures you have the right mix of skills and talent where and when your community needs it in the wake of a disaster. Resources the volunteer can provide (boat, truck, chainsaw, etc.)

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. What does it mean for community change?"

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VisionLink

AUGUST 18, 2015

Medical Bridges, a Houston based Medical Surplus Recovery Organization and their Guatemalan partners Amigos Pro Obras Sociales organized the difficult and complex film settings that included hospitals, clinics, patient homes and the surrounding community. The team enjoying some local Guatemalan cuisine.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2024

When people leave the board, conduct an exit interview in which you ask them if there are committees they’d like to stay on (or join) moving forward. Look at your community; now, look at your board. It’s the committee’s exclusive job to extend invitations for an informational interview to potentially join the board.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

11NTC Day of Service Volunteers Now in its thirteenth year, the Day of Service provide an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give something back to the local community where the Nonprofit Technology Conference is held. Volunteers will work with Community Technology Network to help seniors to create digital memories of their lives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Instead of serving everyone at a single location, consider a catered meal delivered to each of your donors from a local restaurant. Try reaching out to local musicians or up-and-coming performers, and you might be surprised by the response — many individuals love the chance to create awareness for good causes. 12) Tours.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Idea Two: Disrupting the Prevention of Blindness in Rural Communities Andrew Bastawrous is an ophthalmologist and TED Fellow. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. Normally, I listen with appreciation when TED prizes are announced and people in the community jump up to offer help. Well worth a try!

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I genuinely liked Kicktable , a Belgian startup that aimed to build a service to ‘make urban life more exciting’ Basically, they wanted to build a community-powered marketplace à la Etsy or Airbnb for activities, offering locals a place to host and book discounted things-to-do at the last minute. 600+ participants.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Back when most commerce took place on the local high street, shoppers who exchanged personally identifiable information with merchants received something in return. EST, I’ll interview Ben Parr on Twitter Spaces about zero-party marketing best practices. If your startup is formulating a zero-party data strategy, please read.

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Tableau

APRIL 22, 2022

Yet, for people to more efficiently engage in climate action initiatives, they need to see themselves and their own local communities in the narrative. That is precisely what a trio of our Tableau Foundation partners are doing—driving local conversations about climate change. Making sense of complex climate change data .

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Tableau

APRIL 22, 2022

Yet, for people to more efficiently engage in climate action initiatives, they need to see themselves and their own local communities in the narrative. That is precisely what a trio of our Tableau Foundation partners are doing—driving local conversations about climate change. Making sense of complex climate change data .

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