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I’m not changing the world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Plenty of conservative organizations use Drupal, Salesforce, online fundraising, Facebook and Twitter – using those technologies to push for ends that I am far from interested in seeing come to reality. The second motive force is simply to empty your wallet so you can get shiny. I still think I’m doing good.

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

In 2008, Will was named a John D. He was named the 2012 NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award recipient. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a "genius grant," only the second farmer ever to be so honored.

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do. The call to action?

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. Now, fast forward to 2012.