Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Below is a sample email I sent to our captains, complete with a template they could use to motivate and equip their team members. “Hi They decided to use soccer to teach adolescents, primarily girls, about the dangers of HIV, how to protect themselves from STIs and sexual abuse, and how to build confidence beyond their teenage years!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. And I think where Millennials make the greatest impact is when they realize their capabilities to teach and that there’s an audience that wants to teach.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Of course they need to be able to teach coding, but what’s far more important is their ability to empathize and relate with the student.” Strive’s employees, including its founders, still need to teach at least one student.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Although there’s no shipping date for it yet, Apple has sent out review samples of its upcoming MagSafe Duo charger to reviewers. If you buy the MagSafe Duo charger, you’ll need to teach yourself the proper way to take the iPhone off the pad so it doesn’t lift up with the phone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place?

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps quickly became two of my favorite tools, teaching me about researching funders, finding specific grant opportunities, and making connections in the fundraising and grantmaking landscape of my state. It was such a relief to have access to this information! My journey to become a fundraiser has paid off.

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Utah Project Fundraising Lesson 105

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. Who : Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Mrs. Peggy Duvette; Christine Egger; Manny Hernandez. Thursday, April 8, 2010. NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. It's my 53rd birthday on Monday and here's my birthday party plans. What could be more fun? Thank you for donating!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2012

Or, why test with such a small sample size. AXIS creates, performs, and teaches “physically integrated dance”— a contemporary dance form that evolves from the collaboration between dancers with and without disabilities. Facebook ads are similar to Google ad words in that there is a bidding system.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Scopio has developed a scanner, called Scopio100x , capable of imaging that whole blood sample, while maintaining the ability to achieve 100x magnification. Once samples are scanned in the lab, they could be reviewed by hematologists working from anywhere. Image Credits: Scopio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

And little did I know that Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk were planning one hell of a surprise party! I got to teach two back to back sessions of the class and it was exhilarating. For now, enjoy Amy Sample Ward's reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party ! I'll also share some insights about instruction.

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CauseVox

MAY 27, 2021

In this two-module masterclass, fundraising expert Joe Garecht will teach you how to build a successful major donor program, no matter the size of your non-profit. This e-guide includes sample fundraising asks, sample major donor funding proposals, and more. Bonus Item! Pre-registration is live!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Amy Sample Ward reminds us that your kids don't have to give cash only. Celeste for the studio 501c3 blog suggests this piggy bank , with separate slots for investing, saving, spending, and donating is a great way to teach kids about devoting a portion of their income to charity. "Time, enthusiasm, expertise, skills.it

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Since we needed to be better than them, our store should be offering “every flavor known to mankind,” instead of the small sampling of flavors offered at U Dawg U. We need to teach kids to not fear risks, and we shouldn’t reprimand students for failure. But, it was largely their ideas that got summarized above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Amy Sample Ward shared her thoughts in a blog post along with her presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Here’s what I learned from Amy Sample Ward, Alejandra S. Students Discussing Their Assessments of Host Organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

A key feature of Route 66 is the Teacher Tutor, which helps the inexpert but motivated teacher (parent, volunteer, teacher's aide, rehab professional) teach reading. The first step in the process of assessing these documents was a pilot project to sample them.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. If you’re hiring a grant writer, request samples of grants he’s written. If you’re hiring an operations manager, request samples of strategic plans , program assessments, board reports, or other documents she’s written.

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Tips Nonprofit Skills Donor 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Here's a sampling of some of the "Clogs." Till all these blog are operated that I know what kind of support I need. For, rural area, internet extension is critical to blogging promoting. This is what I really need. Keo Kalyan. Battambang Network. Saransopha. YCC Kampong Cham. Kampong Speu YCC. Phnom Penh Network. Siem Reap Network.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Here are some ideas to get you started: Teach senior citizens how to use the Web. Teach the values of the open Web to other public benefit organizations. Show a non-profit how to use social networking to grow its base of supporters. Help install a wireless network at a school. Refurbish hardware for a local computer center.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As COVID-19 has driven schools around the US to move teaching to online or hybrid models, many are outsourcing some instruction and grading to virtual education platforms. Students on @EdgenuityInc , there's your ticket. He went from an F to an A+ without learning a thing. Dana Simmons (@DanaJSimmons) September 2, 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The answer is constantly changing, but recent history teaches us that it’s probably not more than 200% over public-market comps. This is a geographically constrained dataset instead of a global one, but given the chunk of the venture market that North America and Europe loosely represent, it’s not a bad sample to chew on.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Posted by Wenhao Yu and Fei Xia, Research Scientists, Google Empowering end-users to interactively teach robots to perform novel tasks is a crucial capability for their successful integration into real-world applications. To do so, we leverage reward functions as an interface that bridges the gap between language and low-level robot actions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Data annotation, or the process of adding labels to images, text, audio and other forms of sample data, is typically a key step in developing AI systems. The vast majority of systems learn to make predictions by associating labels with specific data samples, like the caption “bear” with a photo of a black bear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk did plan and execute one hell of a surprise party!

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For example, A Gift for Teaching used a fundraising thermometer and leaderboard on their 2021 Back-to-School Drive webpage to drive donations and keep fundraisers updated on the latest status of their fundraising campaign. To encourage social sharing, you’ll also want to provide them with sample posts and any resources (videos, etc.)

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Hosting Fundraising Practice Social Media 133

Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, an activity is running a series of workshops to teach high school students in your district how to do workouts at home. If so, you’re not alone. Let’s make it as clear as we can. Activities are plans; outputs are counts; outcomes are changes. An output is hosting six exercise workshops for 300 students.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Sample data: Before we get going, let’s examine our sample data; a spreadsheet of RPG characters I created using random name generators: Image by Author Column headers in bold indicate required fields, and we can see that some of the required fields are missing. HOME: str GUILD: str PAY: int = pydantic.Field(.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

They get emerging media and are ready to teach. Yet, both within and on the outside, Millennials with great ideas and passion are often met with coldwater statements from their managers like “ That is not the way we do things here.&#. Millennials have the potential to bring a lot of value in leadership to nonprofits from within.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, just before we jump in, one other note – this conversation thread didn’t just teach me more than I ever expected to learn about content strategy, but it drove home the importance of creating and nurturing a diverse network of knowledgeable, generous people who care about the things you do. . Copyblogger.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I have a few topics that I am passionate and knowledgeable about and happy to teach or help others interested in learning more. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I’d love my library to be my coworking space. Libraries + Learning. Comunity-Driven Libraries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I consider myself a teacher: I take a few days off a year to teach at American University, and I do a lot of public speaking and training. It’s incredibly rewarding to help others, and teaching – or mentoring – gives me a sense of accomplishment. Vain, because if you teach, you believe you have something important to say.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Saudi Arabia to teach a course at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as part of the Winter Enrichment Program.

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Social Media Media Romania Social 152

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

"This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class." " My favorite lesson? Design for People To Self Organize!

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