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Candid names Ann Mei Chang as new CEO

Candid

Ann Mei is a leading expert on social innovation with global experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. In addition, she was chief innovation officer for Pete for America, chief innovation officer at Mercy Corps, and senior advisor for women and technology at the U.S. Department of State. She earned a B.S.

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To Strengthen Democracy in America, Think Tech

Tech Soup

Democracy tool recently launched by Foundation Center, out of a total of 18,446 grants awarded since 2011 by more than 1,300 funders focused on the broad range of issues and efforts related to democracy, just 962 have been focused on technology. According to the new Foundation Funding for U.S. You can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

of America v. In September 2011, the Authors Guild sued the HathiTrust digital library—a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created with Google a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world— alleging massive copyright violations. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

Before joining CIR, Joaquin served as senior vice president for digital innovation at American Public Media and founding senior vice president for diversity and innovation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Erinn joined the GuideStar team when Philanthropedia was acquired in 2011. Erinn Andrews. Vanessa Chase.

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Video Didn't Kill the Radio Star: The Not-for-Profit Exchange

NTEN

They even broadcast from the 2011 NTC (which you can replay from their archive ). Started in 2010, the purpose of the show is to have the conversations on how the private and public worlds can help each other and work better together. All shows are archived on the site.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process.

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Quick Reflections from Social Innovation Summit 2011

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We have a visual chart that shows us the stage of each draft – so when we reached 80% milestone, my reward was to attend the afternoon sessions of the Social Innovation Summit 2011. Favorite quotes: “Any organization that receives funding, should use impact assessment and have to make their reports public.