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How Tech is Helping to Combat Food Insecurity and Transform Healthcare

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Kelsey Long, Project Policy Analyst for the Center for Vulnerable Populations in the Division of General and Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Utilizing Tech to Combat Higher Pandemic Food Insecurity Rates. Over $500 billion a year is spent in the U.S. Since 2015, V4V has infused over $1.5

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

In San Francisco, sometimes one can feel a bit cynical about the influx of frivolous technology with billion dollar valuations. Did you know that San Francisco renters are seven times more likely to get buyout offers than eviction notices? This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. No Place Like Home.

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Sun Microsystems and San Francisco's McKinley Elementary School

Tech Soup

While it's recognized that a strong information and communications technology (ICT) foundation is crucial to flourish in a knowledge-based economy, these same school districts often lack the basic resources to ensure that our next generation has those ICT skills and tools.

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The Happy Healthy Nonprofit Book Tour: You Are Invited To Join Us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Aliza Sherman and I never dreamed that our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , would be such a needed resource in the nonprofit field when we started writing it last year. Tue Jan 31 – SAN FRANCISCO 12:00pm-1:30pm. TechSoup Lunch Time Brown Bag , 435 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94107.

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29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Some on the list are very known in the nonprofit sector, and others are completely under the radar and providing some very valuable resources to the nonprofit sector. Marnie Webb: @webb from San Francisco, CA. Susan Tenby: @suzboop from San Francisco, CA. Sean Stannard-Stockton: @tactphil from San Francisco, CA.

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Kitchener, Ontario: Estimating Time and Resources.

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Fiscal Sponsorship Resources

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many folks ask us to be a fiscal sponsor for their social tech projects, but we've decided it would be a distraction from our core work, plus we're not experts in supporting other projects. In the San Francisco area, the Tides Center is best known for offering fiscal sponsorship. They offer a range of services for their fee.

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