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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

Note: the speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira. Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies. There I had life-changing experiences that caused me to become focused on social change and social justice. I returned to the United States a ''do-gooder''.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Certainly, people seemed to appreciate access to the platform apps that began changing their world. Although these tools of alternative financing have some promise, the potential of platform cooperatives to fundamentally change worker conditions in the gig economy will never be well realized within the extant capitalist economy.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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