Amy Sample Ward is NetSquared's Global Community Development Manager, focusing on the strategic development of content, community and collaboration among NetSquared's stakeholders both on and offline. Her work covers the NetSquared website (content, Challenges, and more), online community (comments, usability, participation), and offline community known as NetSquared Local (supporting andcoordinating all Local organizers around the world).
In addition to her fun with NetSquared, Amy is a nonprofit technology blogger, trainer, presenter, and collaborator. She recently co-authored Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies for social impact. Based currently in the UK, Amy has worked with local governments, neighborhood groups, communities of interest, and charitable organization to help create social media strategies and build community for impact. You can find her blog at http://amysampleward.org/.
Christopher (Chris) Worman has worked in the NGO sector since 1999. Starting as President of the Lawrence University Community Council, Chris worked with several NGOs in the United States including the Guthrie Theater and Special Olympics Minnesota where he served as Direct Marketing and Foundations Manager. In 2006, while training with Peace Corps Romania, Chris heard a presentation on Romanian fundraising mechanisms. Afterwards, Chris began considering the important role community foundations (CFs) might play in the development of Romanian civil society, there-establishment of social capital, and how he might support this movement.
Since then, Chris has played an active role in the Romanian CF movement and he organized the Odorheiu Secuiesc Community Foundation after building support for the concept within Odorhei through the ‘2% for Odorhei’campaign. In addition to OSCF, Chris has worked directly with, or presented workshops to, more than 250 NGOs on marketing and fundraising, served as a consultant to the national CF movement and has written extensively on NGO development.
In 2009, Chris had a busy year helping launch TechSoup in Romania and kicking off individual giving programs in the middle of the crisis. Happily, 1 year on, the Community Foundation now counts more than 1,600 families as local, monthly donors. Chris is also interested in rural development and has developed several programs including a social enterprise and a pilot rural biogas project because then he can play outside.
