Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Who: Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. Here’s the dashboard from The Extraordinaries of our 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session today: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns – [International Ballroom C] (#co2oc).

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Campaign Community Organization Online 140

Google Research AI blog

JUNE 29, 2023

A straightforward way to produce this unlearned model is to retrain the model on an adjusted training set that excludes the samples from the forget set. An unlearning algorithm takes as input a pre-trained model and one or more samples from the train set to unlearn (the "forget set"). demographics, age groups, etc.).

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Challenge Train Training Evaluation 145

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives. A written list of requirements is the starting point for evaluating accounting software options. You should provide samples of your documentation as appropriate to accompany these requirements.

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Software Guide Nonprofit Award 296

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Instead, design for growth and sustainability from the start with lots of room for feedback, evaluation and iterations to continue developing and redeveloping. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. But, it’s just to say that you are in it just like the community is, and not everything we try in life works smoothly.

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Community Organization Build Case Study 253

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” After one of these presentations, a participant came up to me and pushed back a little on what I’d said, explaining that data was for evaluation and that seemed very passive. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I responded that data, without action, isn’t worth our effort to track it.

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Social Media Media Social Help 240

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

If investment was required to get a tool, I believe many groups would be willing to participate in evaluations, provide feedback, submit user stories and help in the development of the tool. Evaluate your community: are you reaching a diverse community or operating in a silo? Investment Is More Than Money. But not money.

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Ning Causes Build Evaluation 208

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As I’m sure many of you already know, much of this work, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, relies on a strategy continues to come back around to the planning elements and through to evaluation, over and over. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Library Community Model Collaboration 241

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In most scenarios users have a limited labeling budget, and sometimes there aren’t even any labeled samples during training. Furthermore, even when labeled data are available, there could be biases in the way samples are labeled, causing distribution differences. Green/red dots represent normal/abnormal samples, respectively).

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Amy Sample Ward. 14ntc Community digital inclusion evaluation net neutrality women in tech' It's time to take a moment to marvel at the wonders that the nonprofit technology has made possible this year (thanks, team!). I know you''re not supposed to have favorites, but 2014 has truly been an incredible year.

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NTEN Review Evaluation Sample 93

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 15, 2011

But you still need a clear strategy, a sound plan of attack, and a method of evaluating your results. Delivering our “mini-keynote” for the PMDMC Social Media Intensive is NTEN’s Membership Director, Amy Sample Ward, co-author of Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact.

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Conference Media Public Social Media 100

NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. Here’s a sample for NetWits that I ran a few months back that will give you an idea of what to expect. Next, use HubSpot’s website grader.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Evaluation Mentoring Kansas City Leadership 56

Charity Village

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Ontario Nonprofit Network in collaboration with l’Assemblée de la Francophonie de l’Ontario (l’AFO), conducted a sector survey to evaluate the health of nonprofits in Ontario. The study evaluated the state of the nonprofits’ financial health, staffing and volunteers, and general operations. Key […].

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Network Nonprofit Report Evaluation 75

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Most Significant Change (MSC) – "The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With the release of the FRMT data and accompanying evaluation code, we hope to inspire and enable the research community to discover new ways of creating MT systems that are applicable to the large number of regional language varieties spoken worldwide. Pearson correlation coefficient , ρ ) is comparable to the inter-annotator consistency (0.70

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Awareness Benchmark Language Evaluation 117

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.” .

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Issue Data Haiti Measure 160

Google Research AI blog

APRIL 21, 2023

It usually involves a cross-functional team of ML practitioners who fine-tune the models, evaluate robustness, characterize strengths and weaknesses, inspect performance in the end-use context, and develop the applications. Sign up to be notified when Visual Blocks for ML is publicly available.

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Interaction Learning Tools Evaluation 121

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

It’s a practitioner’s guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that engage constituents across many channels, wherever they may be, and how we as organizations need to structure our work to deliver that experience.

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People Business Nonprofit Advocacy 241

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2012

They also include time spent watching the film from the previous game, play by play, evaluating, learning, and preparing for the next game. And what if their job evaluation was based partly on how effectively they are at coaching the more junior folks? You prepare (or not), and then you perform well (or not).

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Game Nonprofit Evaluation Resource 132

Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Here’s a sample of the essential information to include in your “thank you” letter: Date Name and address of nonprofit Donor name and address We wish to thank you for your 2010 contribution of cash in the amount of $500.00. The IRS says it’s okay to send this information by email.

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Volunteer Organization Files Proposal 82

Judi Sohn

MARCH 1, 2012

In this sample case, the rule will fire when the Transaction Type equals Membership and will be evaluated when the record is created or edited and didn’t meet the criteria before. Now, the workflow rule. Now the fun part. Set a Field Update and tell it to update the custom date field you created on the Account.

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Track Convio Contact Cancer 140

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2012

I love to see projects that are focused on measuring and evaluating data about their work and progress. With Water for People’s FLOW system, when they say a project is working, they can prove it to you! Just p ick an area of the world and see for yourself!

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Data Map Project Broadcast 241

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Model development and evaluation To develop our model, we worked with partners at EyePACS and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to create a retrospective de-identified dataset of external eye photos and measurements in the form of laboratory tests and vital signs (e.g., blood pressure). This pixel count is under 0.1

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Photo System Los Angeles Comparison 125

Google Research AI blog

MAY 18, 2023

Using sparse video tubes to sample a video, combined with a standard ViT encoder, leads to an efficient visual representation that can be seamlessly shared with image inputs. By sparsely sampling the video tubes, we can use the same global self-attention module, rather than factorized attention like ViViT.

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Video Images Sample Method 92

Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 ! Then we used a random number generator to select which of those records would be pulled into our nonprofit mission statement studies’ sample. .

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Donation Nonprofit Studies Homeless 137

Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. The resulting data set can be considered a convenience sample, capturing the latest demographic data that’s been shared by each participating organization. For example, U.S.

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Demographics Data Free Evaluation 111

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Well, you’ll find that much of the work that involves your community, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, involves strategy that goes in a circle. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. Strive to Be Replaced.

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 12, 2025

Published on March 12, 2025 5:56 PM GMT Summary The Stages-Oversight benchmark from the Situational Awareness Dataset tests whether large language models (LLMs) can distinguish between evaluation prompts (such as benchmark questions) and deployment prompts (real-world user inputs).

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Awareness Evaluation Sample Benchmark 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

His post sparked a community plea to Ning to keep its service free for grassroots nonprofits and community groups and Amy Sample Ward also wrote about it. Evaluate your community: are you reaching a diverse community or operating in a silo? Start a Petition ».

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Ning Free Technology Nonprofit 102

Candid

AUGUST 14, 2024

Here’s a sample of their comments: “We do not have the have the resources or expertise to determine what is AI-generated or not. The risk of AI unduly influencing our evaluation process is minimal.” “We are agnostic to the tools that applicants use to create grant applications. foundations.

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Grant Proposal Foundation Generation 111

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Once you come up with a plan, and you test it, you then evaluate it and rethink it, and then iterate on the plan, test it, and come back around to evaluating it. Anytime in there you can make changes in direction or function and it’s okay, because you will get to plan, try and evaluate as you go.

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Community Library Adopt Evaluation 167

Towards Data Science

JANUARY 26, 2023

To compare the behavior of these methods, we will use the following metrics: Time to first sample  — how much time does it take until the first sample in the file is read. Average sequential read time  — what is the average read time per sample when iterating sequentially over all of the samples. client('s3') s3.upload_file('2GB.bin',

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Files Stream Data Sample 98

Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

We are excited to announce the public release of the VRDU dataset and evaluation code under a Creative Commons license. We gathered a random sample of documents from the public Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) sites, and converted the images to text using Google Cloud's OCR.

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Template Benchmark Evaluation Registration 76

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Funding projects instead of just a specific product ensures that organizations or teams can fail quickly and softly while working towards something better, can invest in research and evaluation, and engage the community not just market to them. Recognize the role of technology across all our work.

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Support Philanthropy Adopt Community 199

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. Who : Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. Who : Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Mrs. Peggy Duvette; Christine Egger; Manny Hernandez. When : 9:00 a.m.

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NTC Netsquared Social Media NGO 126

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

Let’s look at the way a gardener can tend to multiple flowerbeds in one big backyard and the way that translates to our work of building community across the web: Analysis and evaluation : the garden is visiting all of the flowerbeds or cultivated areas of the yard (and all the ground in between!)

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Community Build Ning Offline 143