Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I visited Omaha, Nebraska, and had a great time presenting to the PRSA Nebraska chapter. I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Discovering Public Art with Public Art Omaha. Public Art Omaha created a searchable online database and mobile apps (for Apple and Android ) that do just that. Public Art Omaha created a searchable online database and mobile apps (for Apple and Android ) that do just that. engage with public art?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 15, 2021

in 2017, Ryan raised funds for the United Way of the Midlands (Omaha, NE), and Omaha Home for Boys. Strawhecker, Inc., a non-profit consulting firm in its 26th year. Prior to re-joining Paul J. Strawhecker, Inc. In 2016, he received the CFRE designation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

“I found the former head of operations of Omaha Steaks, which at the time was the big behemoth of meat in the mail. “I gave equity to the Omaha Steaks guy, and I gave equity to the branding studio, which in retrospect was a mistake, because I had way too low of a valuation.” I’ll be glad to help you.’

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Similarly, Lyn Wallin Ziegenbein, Executive Director of the Peter Kiewit Foundation, a private independent philanthropic trust in Omaha, Nebraska, says, “We place a high priority and value on building enduring relationships with our grantees. As we see it, the Omaha community is relationships.”.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Of Omaha makes it easy for donors to support girls in both Lincoln and Omaha with a simple, clean format that allows donors to give how they choose (and don’t forget to take note of that recurring giving prompt!). So when can you use multi-restriction giving without scaring off your donors?

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

In fact, she’s so unlikely to talk about herself or her company that, while sitting with her for dinner during Big Omaha, the subject of Quick Left came up (not from her, mind you) and I said that I really needed to talk to someone from there to find out their story.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

Los Angeles, CA. Louisville, KY. Memphis, TN. Midland, TX. Minneapolis, MN. Missoula, MT. Moosic, PA. Nashville, TN. New Orleans, LA. New York, NY. Norfolk, VA. Orlando, FL. Philadelphia, PA. Phoenix, AZ. Pittsburgh, CA. Portland, ME. Portland, OR. Raleigh, NC. Richmond, VA. Sacramento, CA. Salt Lake City, UT. San Angelo, TX. San Antonio, TX.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2005

I'll be spending most of that final week of October in Omaha, where my coworker Curtis Matthews and I will be poised to put out fires as we put the Omaha/Council Bluffs YMCA new public camp registration system online. The format of this event is still taking shape -- I'll let you know more about it next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

The second year we made changes and moved our event to a large park in Omaha and in doing so we were able to save the organization more than 25K in expenses and make it possible for us to retain more of our profits allowing us to provide larger grants and scholarships to help the local LGBT community!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

The broadband company, CenturyLink , is also building a gigabit fiber network in Omaha, so this is definitely a growing trend. The service provides TV broadband and Internet that is comparable with cable offers. Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. The Community Driven Fund.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2012

Public Art Omaha. Library Anywhere (LibraryThing). Nonprofit and Other Cause-Related Apps. ResQ (response to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan). Humane Society of Whitley County. To check out other and future webinars and online events, check out our Tech Events page ! Let us know what you think of these and other apps you've used.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2005

after a week working with our old friends at the Omaha/Council Bluffs YMCA. I'm back in D.C. Here are two other D.C. non-profit pundits you'll want to add to your reading list: Jillaine Smith's blog, At the Intersection , focuses on organizational development: leadership, strategic planning, communication.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Jeff Kutash, the executive director of the Peter Kiewit Foundation in Omaha, Neb, deals with grants on a daily basis. Grant writing is a time-consuming process. It can also be nerve-wracking if you’re inexperienced or working on a particularly important grant.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. Habitat for Humanity of Omaha has built 993 homes for families since 1984, and has doubled in size twice since Bob Lynn joined the team in 2008. spanhidden.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

Cities such as Columbus, Ohio; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; San Jose, California; Seattle, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Louisville, Kentucky are demanding scooter companies agree to share data through MDS as a condition for operating on their streets. It’s growing into a bigger problem beyond LA.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Jack Dill, marketing director at the YMCA of Greater Omaha, sent me a link yesterday to an article in the Non-Profit Times discussing the lawsuit by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) against Target Corp. It's been a matter of debate whether the law requires such accessibility.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

You’ll read those dozens of stories captured by three information-hungry economist/b-school professor buddies who traveled Memphis, TN to Omaha, NE; Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL to Cincinnati, OH, and so on.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

The card was launched on August 16 in partnership with Mastercard and First National Bank of Omaha, and offers small business owners features such as a rewards program featuring the ability to earn points by completing “business-advancing activities” on the Hello Alice platform.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

You’ll read those dozens of stories captured by three information-hungry economist/b-school professor buddies who traveled Memphis, TN to Omaha, NE; Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL to Cincinnati, OH, and so on.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Tech nonprofit AIM finds a fit with a crowdfunding operation for artists - Omaha.com : The crowdfunding site that supported her book about her family''s experience with Alzheimer''s disease has now been acquired by an Omaha organization that expects to expand its influence nationwide.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

You’ll read those dozens of stories captured by three information-hungry economist/b-school professor buddies who traveled Memphis, TN to Omaha, NE; Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL to Cincinnati, OH, and so on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Cooking In November, the VegCookbook Club (my other blog) cooked from Isa Chandra Moskowitz''s new vegan cookbook, Isa Does It.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 26, 2006

And as my friend from Omaha says, the Google Calendar is "slicker than snot on a doorknob" with an interface that can parse time, date, and location out of a single text input. Link to the Google Calendar. If gmail sees something that looks like a date or time in the email, it displays a link that will put that event in your calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas. I keynoted at the Grant Manager’s Network Conference and was on a panel with Alex Samuel and Jeremiah Owyang at SXSW.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 4, 2016

Jeff Kutash, the executive director of the Peter Kiewit Foundation in Omaha, Neb, deals with grants on a daily basis. Grant writing is a time-consuming process. It can also be nerve-wracking if you’re inexperienced or working on a particularly important grant.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 3, 2015

It’s with more than a little local pride that we mention that Omaha Community Foundation was named by Laidler-Kylander as a capital collaborator in a recent Forbes article. By working together, instead of separately, you’ll get more done and your donors will appreciate that you’re putting their dollars to good use.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2014

127,984.00. 1,208,489.87. New Orleans. 360,740.00. 3,370,048.95. 164,268.00. 1,520,471.04. 415,068.00. 3,831,628.14. 136,067.00. 1,254,477.80. 164,759.00. 1,515,883.50. 9,200.61.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

9 ^ [8] Ibid, Pg. 9 Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 10:00 AM Labels: Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , Giving USA , million dollar list , Pat Lewis , philanthropy , research friday , women 3comments: Anne Fitzgerald Osborne said.

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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Omaha Girls Rock. Omaha Girls Rock. Mission: Omaha Girls Rock’s mission is to empower youth to find their unique voice through music education, performance, and creativity. Headquarters in: Omaha, NE. How To Support Omaha Girls Rock. Learn more about Omaha Girls Rock. Boulanger Initiative. WomenRising.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Omaha-based architecture firm DLR Group is widening the scope of creative reuse, tackling an unusually diverse range of projects and scales with its extensive in-house expertise. Between 50% and 75% percent of a buildings embedded carbon is contained in its foundation, structure, and building envelope.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The ‘Buffett effect’ Warren Buffett, the CEO of Omaha-based conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway and currently the sixth wealthiest person in the world , has an outsized impact on the state’s giving landscape. The Omaha Community Foundation is the 12th largest community foundation in the country, awarding more than $280 million in 2023.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

Other business leaders who have spoken on the value of hard work are: Warren Buffett , CEO and chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway (aka the “Oracle of Omaha”) Dan Graham , cofounder and CEO of BuildASign.com Justin Gray , founder and CEO of five successful companies 2.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Barrage balloons protect ships unloading cargo at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in June 1944. These large, tethered balloons were intended to deter enemy aircraft from dive-bombing and strafing ground positions and cities, forcing airplanes to fly higher to avoid colliding with the tethering cables, thus making bombing less accurate.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

We would lose 100 tee times a day if daylight saving time goes away, said Connor Farrell, general manager of Stone Creek Golf Course in Omaha, Nebraska. And it is those late afternoon players who tend to buy food and drinks in the clubhouse. Switching to permanent standard time would cost us $500,000 a year.”

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