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Contemplating Boulder and Social Impact

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Chuck had been suggesting for quite a while that I come to Boulder both to speak to Naropa students and connect with the vibrant local tech scene. I really like Unreasonable’s approach to unlocking entrepreneurial potential to overcome our world’s greatest problems, and hope to find the time to participate as a mentor there.

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Finding a Community of Nonprofit Technology Experts

Tech Soup

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor. NetSquared groups held 23 Storymakers events, helping local nonprofits use video strategically. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. She also stated that while San Francisco is a highly educated region overall, two thirds of the city's highly educated residents are from outside of California.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). Here is Beth's post and here is mine. The project will continue through the spring and into early summer.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. Are you hiring locally? Are you using local suppliers?

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.