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5 Ways To Be A Better Ally

Saleforce Nonprofit

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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Transform Your Communications & Collaboration With Slack

Saleforce Nonprofit

Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success. As courses progress, Slack is used as the central channel for all course communications, including peer collaboration, speaker announcements, industry news, and mentor feedback.

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Storytelling in the Digital Age: Lessons from the SOCAP12 Conference

Tech Soup

The panel featured Jonah Sachs, the creative director of Free Range Studios , which is a film studio that makes web videos for social and environmental change groups. The example he used was the hero myth: an underdog starts from nothing, becomes educated or stronger by way of a mentor, and then saves the world.

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Virgin America As Connector

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Behind me was Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Miro , a HD open source video player. I could not resist striking up a conversation with them, especially since we had so much rough turbulence that it helped distract me. I'll certainly be exploring these tools and programs in more depth.

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Book Reviews

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. A great many people in my Mentor Program consult with non-profits. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. Moreover, says Diana Wilson, CEO and founder of Black SiS.

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Bay Area Nonprofit Collaborative Pilots High-Tech Social Service Referral System

Non Profit Quarterly

Anh Bui, former director of Benetech Labs, told NPQ that Benetech’s methodology is to “build and harness community. Two of the agencies didn’t explain that it also offered career counseling and mentoring, while one didn’t have its website address. Roughly $9 million of Benetech’s $14 million budget comes from its Bookshare program.