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Great reads from around the web on January 26th

Amy Sample Ward

Love of Philanthropy Photo Contest « Vivanista | Living Well. – "Join Vivanista in sharing the love of philanthropy by participating in our Love of Philanthropy photo contest that showcases images of what it means to be philanthropic." So we need to remember that with social media! Doing Good.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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My Colorado Project empowers local change: Interview with Jason Manke

Amy Sample Ward

He’s been on the staff of Community Shares for three years now and drives the traditional and new media outreach to inspire philanthropy in Colorado. . How do you define e-philanthropy and how does MCP align with that vision? Jason is the Media Director and My Colorado Project Manger for Community Shares of Colorado.

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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

" Interactive: How America Gives – How America Gives – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas – The Chronicle of Philanthropy has launched a great new tool: an interactive map of giving data in the US.

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Let Volunteers Shine (And Inspire Gifts) On GivingTuesday

Bloomerang

Like many healthy nonprofits, Marie Curie was trying to instill greater collaboration and a deeper culture of philanthropy across teams, some of which were siloed. She asked staff to give 15 minutes of their time to handwrite a card and prepared them with ready-made assets, stationery, stamps, and sample scripts.

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Oregon Foundation looking for a Million Dollar Idea

Amy Sample Ward

While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. Meyer’s personal philanthropy and is not affiliated with Fred Meyer Inc., We want Oregonians to get engaged with us.”. the retail enterprise.

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Nonprofit fundraising in an election year is especially tough. What can fundraisers do? 

Candid

A 2016 paper from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy notes that “financial support for Presidential or other political campaigns does not appear to decrease donations to charity.” Don’t be afraid to throttle spending in underperforming states, particularly those heavily contested in the election.