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What Happens at GEO Doesn’t Stay at GEO (and that’s a good thing)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I spoke with Jennifer from the community foundation in Winnipeg (apologies, Jennifer, for not getting you name and everything exactly right — I’m writing this at the Seattle airport before my plane takes off.). Carrie Avery is president of the Durfee Foundation , a family foundation in Los Angeles, California.

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

Awards will be announced at our gala on October 22, 2014 at SOMArts in San Francisco (you can RSVP and get your invitation here ). Joaquin was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. Joaquin Alvarado. Mona Das is the founder of MOXY!

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How The James Irvine Foundation Received Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

The James Irvine Foundation is one of the largest grantmaking institutions in California. The James Irvine Foundation was founded in 1937 during the great depression, largely in response to the great social needs from that era. This is an interview with Jeff Brandenburg who runs the IT department at the foundation.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

I had a chance this week to preside over TechSoup’s booth at the latest Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP) in San Francisco. Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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