Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I recently came across the My Colorado Project when Jason Manke connected with me, asking for feedback and ideas about community building and online community engagement tools. Jason is the Media Director and My Colorado Project Manger for Community Shares of Colorado. How did My Colorado Project come about, how did it get started?

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Colorado Local Project Interview 181

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Since we began developing Martus 10 years ago, we’ve been able to enhance it only incrementally as project specific funding allowed. This is a truly unique moment in Martus’ history.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. Group members always have the option to leave whenever they choose. Below are four examples: 1) Virtual Team Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Nonprofits now have a range of remote and hybrid events to choose between, and they can make the most of them thanks to platforms like PayBee that facilitate streaming and other digital tools. When he’s not managing a fundraising event you can find him at the gym or working on side projects at home in Palo Alto, CA.

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Method Fundraising Nonprofit Virtual 354

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

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. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Hire for Fit Don’t rely on games, group lunches, or happy hours to turn incompatibility into excellence. Then you need an environment that maximizes individual talents while allowing groups to work successfully together. Don’t rely on games or group lunches to turn incompatibility into excellence. I’ve seen it happen.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It is a meeting place, or a cross roads for nonprofit, business and civil society groups to come together around improving the state. It is a meeting place, or a cross roads for nonprofit, business and civil society groups to come together around improving the state.

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Community Management Proposal Roles 198

Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Communication is the most important tool a project manager and their team has to help clients achieve their goals, especially in the ever-changing landscape of the current workplace. Every facet of the organization benefits from a project management role team member and communicating in the most effective way possible.

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Project Communication Management Doc 105

.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships?

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Mentoring Giving Leadership Associations 251

CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

This guide will help you understand the two main ways of using Facebook: a page and a group. What is a Facebook Group? If you want a place that people can connect together and have discussions, create a Facebook Group. What is a Facebook Group? Facebook Groups are something entirely different from pages.

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Facebook Group Social Media Illinois 98

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Claude Pro provided an excellent overview of the kinds of books Ive selected for the book group I facilitate over the past eight years. Limitation: Some documents I tried to import, like my Readwise reading highlights, were too large to fit in a Claude Project I created for my taste atlas.

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Movie Music Doc Analysis 89

.orgSource

MAY 9, 2023

Before you engage a facilitator, discuss their approach to innovation. Identify the natural innovators in your group and give them a format and venue for creativity. Contract employees are a good way to evaluate which project configurations are conducive to more efficient work. But you can start small, say with half a percent.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Fortunately, a little website called Back of a Napkin is here to help facilitate that discussion process and ensure there’s a record of what was decided. The service asks five simple questions, such as who is involved in the project, what stake each has in the business if it makes money and what happens if it doesn’t.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. It isn’t right for every project or process.

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Community Social Media Case Study Haiti 207

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Evidence Planning: Helps define outcomes for a project. Generate new ideas. Test and improve. Sustain and implement. A few tools that caught my eye: 1. Learning Loop: Develops a clear plan based on what has been done before. People and Connections Map : Helps you map your network. Thinking Hats: To generate new ideas.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

I want to work at a place where leaders are facilitating not just my growth broadly but also my ability to live out my values in the world. Every conversation in which you truly listen, every piece of positive feedback you give, and every project you assign that encourages learning and growth dont just add upthey multiply.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

When timelines are being met, challenges that arise are being navigated with ease and wisdom, and communication flows consistently and clearly between a nonprofit and a marketing agency, thank a project manager. What does a project manager do? The broad answer is project managers manage projects.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Just like roads and bridges help us get to our destinations, intermediary organizations provide the infrastructure nonprofit organizations—and, increasingly, leaders of unincorporated projects or initiatives—need to reach their own destinations. Intermediaries are organizations that offer back office support to nonprofits and leaders (e.g.,

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it. I might have someone contact me, ask for help with their project, and we meet at the café for an hour or so.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Most groups have invested in improved systems and platforms, and some have adjusted their strategy to maximize the new equipment. Upper-level managers don’t have the bandwidth to vet or supervise new projects. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. But that’s often the extent of the update.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2025

Were backing groups that are defending democratic norms, as well as supporting safety and security initiatives for organizations under threat. James Kass, executive director of National Public Radios KALW , notes its time for funders to stop treating small organizations as pilot projects or afterthoughts.

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2012

Here are 10 business-changing tools for joining mental forces with your team members and putting your skills together for projects: 1. It’s easy to set up, easy to use, and fantastic for team members who are working on many projects at the same time with others. Producteev for Productive Collaboration. Facebook Member Pages Work.

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Collaboration Tools Business Skype 148

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

60% said they are very likely to donate if they trust the organization, 43% said very likely if it was a specific project or purpose. 61% said they want to volunteer with friends and family, 56% said they want an organized group. 77% said that if family or friends recommend an organization, they trust the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Facilitator Guide: [link]. … Read More

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Practice Thailand Reflection Nonprofit 108

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Today, real AI innovation isnt just limited to models or the infrastructureits in what connects them, Ram Velaga , senior vice president and general manager of Broadcoms Core Switching Group, told Fast Company during the NTT Upgrade 2025 event. AI is not just about GPUs or compute anymore.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

Selecting an award management system should be a group effort including people across your organization who will interact with the software, such as scholarship admins, review committee members, and IT. While adopting new technology can be challenging, having a predetermined framework will help eliminate much of the guesswork and uncertainty.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The model isn’t set up to facilitate growth, and profits aren’t the priority — the impact is. For instance, charity: water has a 100% model , where every public donation funds sustainable clean water projects, and private donors cover its operational costs. An interactive map pinpoints each project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

The recognition, the program’s success, and its critical mission are badges of accomplishment for the group. By this year, the program projects reaching more than 14 million adolescent girls across 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia with direct services. We’d been living with COVID for some time.

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International Conversation Leadership Issue 221

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Volunteers deserve just as much recognition and appreciation as donors (frequently, the groups overlap!) You may think it costs too much time and resources to create memorable moments for donors, but in reality, there are a variety of low-cost touchpoints your organization can use to facilitate relationship-building.

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Retention Donor Effective Strategy 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. As a group we spend time clustering similar ideas before reviewing them. Diminish pet projects. Build consensus. Listen to all participant perspectives. Step 1: Set up the vote.

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Online Participatory Technique Method 115

Candid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Their strength lies in uniting diverse groups around shared values, which fosters deeper dialogue and collective action. Collective giving groups are becoming more civically engaged and educated about policies that affect their values and giving priorities.

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Action Giving Empowerment Philanthropy 59

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Kelly Buhles outlines some of the ways to structure participation in her article, “A Primer for Participatory Grantmaking,” and divides them into two main groupings: participatory committees and collective groups. Committees tend to be smaller groups of selected representatives who review and decide on grants.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

AARP conducted focus groups that included users already knowledgeable about LTSS issues and affiliated data and trends, as well as users who had no connection to LTSS or related concepts. To see if our data visualization efforts were hitting the mark, we went back to the same focus groups, gathered more feedback, and adjusted the design.

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Story Data Chart Nonprofit 52

Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

The first step is to facilitate ideation. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging. Yet facilitating workshops, ideation sessions, or other conversations with the goal to encourage creativity and discourse can be challenging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The idea around peer learning groups is that participants learn skills that they assimilate as part of their ongoing practice. It’s impressive if you think about it: In just a few years, community foundations have learned to raise millions for local projects in 24-hour sprints. by Bahia Ramos.

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