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Determined to Trend - Guest Post by James Leventhal

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Local Oakland Tweeter @trafficologist Standing Beside Her Profile Pic in the Twitterstream. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years. The “superfriends” on stage at OMCA’s California Futures at the Massive Reopening Celebration.

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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

I didn't, until I read about the San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. To participate, email the San Francisco Food Bank at: HungerChallenge@SFFB.org.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. The original Encore Fellowships program in California pairs former corporate professionals with clinics and consortia in the Central Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

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Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

Listen Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Interviews with 56 Changemakers: 5th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Tom Dawkins, Co-Founder of StartSomeGood.com Fundraising Focus: Crowdfunding for local and global causes. Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space.

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Daily News, Daily Blues

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The closing of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's print operations a few weeks back, coupled with Hearst Corporation's announcement that may close the venerable San Francisco Chronicle as well, has brought the plight of print journalism into focus. It's not a problem that suddenly snuck up on us.

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