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San Francisco Day of Service

Forum One

While several of us were in San Francisco for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we helped install a wireless network in a local community center. Photo Gallery: Connections for San Francisco's Homeless.

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TechSoup Holiday Open House in SF on December 8 – You're Invited

Tech Soup

Do you work with a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit? Next Tuesday, December 8, TechSoup will honor tremendous work of local organizations like yours. Join us at our SOMA offices in San Francisco for great local food and drink, a chance to meet each other, and talk to members of the TechSoup team.

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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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NTC Just Over One Month Away: Register Now!

Tech Soup

Coming up from April 26-28, NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (or NTC) 2009, is the go-to event every year for nonprofit professionals. to networking opportunities galore, get yee online to register to attend and join us in San Francisco for the three-day event. From panels, plenaries, and presentations (oh my!)

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. She previously worked with the Washington, D.C.,

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. 2009) found that stipends promote inclusion, efficiency and effectiveness. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools.

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Human Rights Trainings in Nigeria

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. I flew into Abuja from Kinshasa, and my colleague Rahwa Tareke joined me from San Francisco.

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