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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

Jennifer and I just happened to be sitting next to one another, but once we started talking, she told me that her foundation was inspired to start a small leadership renewal program after she had learned from my colleague Claire Peeps about Durfee’s sabbatical program at the Pittsburgh conference in 2010. Safe travels, everyone!

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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. Bailey Rosser.

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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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Examples of Abundance in the Arts: Ask A Conductor on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In February 2010 I organised an event called Follow a Museum , this was prompted by the low number of followers which I felt most museums had on Twitter and simply aimed to boost those numbers. . On December 8, 2010 , conductors from around the world will come together to engage with fans, first-timers and complete strangers.

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How The James Irvine Foundation Received Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

Jeff Brandenburg: My role at the Irvine Foundation is Director of Technology for our offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. After looking at online project management tools, we chose Microsoft Project 2010. Here is my interview with Jeff Brandenburg. Jim: What is your job at the foundation?

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Social Video Questions, Answered: Join TechSoup July 20

Tech Soup

Hardy , Los Angeles, CA @eveslime and the @limelightprjct Sheila Hardy is an award-winning producer, writer and owner of Eve's Lime. 2010 as a way of using film, photography, and real-time reporting. Pacific on July 20. secrets, and a combined 100 years of video experience with four amazing. Special Guests: Sheila J.

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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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