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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor.

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Celebrating Free Agents: Mark Horvath Launches WeAreVisible

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Mark Horvath on Twitter and later face-to-face last December during a trip down the California coast during the holidays. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services.

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Free In-Person Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Tuesday, September 8, 2015.

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#CelebrateAdobeCC — It's a Wrap!

Tech Soup

Our winners represent a little glamour from the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, plus some creativity from Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Manifesting beautiful content is easy with Adobe!! Our third place, bronze prize goes to Literacy Services of Wisconsin (LSW).

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Serendipity and Twitter

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The next day, I'm getting a full-on tour of the BBC newsrooms, a preview of the new BBC News website design, an in-depth demo of the content management system including how to move approved stories around in response to user interest, a graphical overlay on these pages showing top links being clicks, and so on.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / Redwood City, CA / $350. Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. Is our content compelling? Feb 26 - 28.

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