article thumbnail

Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

This is what I wrote: "The specific and primary purpose of the corporation is to engage in educational and charitable activities which educate the public regarding the appropriate use of computer technology." Our network partner in Indonesia runs Kitabisa.com ("We can"), a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform.

Asia 54
article thumbnail

#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action. will tend to summarise and record most common responses and also a few key ones that might be unexpected for assessment at end of a campaign or activity. Social media makes that much easier.

Community 132
article thumbnail

Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jacob Harold, Guidestar , shared some thoughts to this question, “What are the basic building blocks to facilitate better access to data?” They recently launched lab in Indonesia and started to hear through social media chatter that vaccine serum had meat and that people should not get vaccines.