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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston: Storymakers 2017! Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. Another interesting concept was a mobile tech shop for homeless shelters.

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Looking forward to 2009

Judi Sohn

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? It’s almost as ridiculous as saying that every geek “works in computers.”. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center? Weiner Blog.

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience

Tech Soup

For instance, take this long, amazing story, Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life by Andrea Elliott, published in The New York Times. Just by working at your organization, you may know far more about your cause than you realize. That story took 15 months to develop. How would you write it?

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Change.org is Hiring Bloggers for Social Action Blog Network

Have Fun - Do Good

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action. blogging job activism

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Volunteer for the Day of Service at NTEN's NTC in SF on April 26th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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