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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I used my $100 check to purchase holiday gifts for Next Door Solutions, an agency here in Silicon Valley that safety for battered women and their children through emergency shelter; multiple points of entry for victims; individuals, system and institutional advocacy; crisis intervention; education for victims and the community. Pass it on.

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How to Make Facebook Fundraising Work For You

Media Cause

We leveraged the Facebook Post Donate Button and saw average gift revenue more than double from Giving Tuesday benchmarks. The audience really appreciated the content as evidenced by the growth in average gift. . Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM).

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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. After receiving an MBA and CPA from San Jose State in 1995, and working for Hewlett-Packard and several tech startups, Viji received an unexpected diagnosis from her doctor.

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Your NetSquared Holiday Gift!

Tech Soup

They’re the new Santa Claus, offering #nptech gifts year-round! Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Chepe in San Jose, Costa Rica. NetSquared Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Net2Local organizers plan events because they have skills to share, want to give back and want to make the world a better place.

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16NTC Session Submissions Now Open

NTEN

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25. Bonus If you’re feeling excited about this, we’re sweetening the deal.

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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation. The CS team hosts opportunities for employees to participate in planned community service days, and run a robust Matching Gifts and Dollars for Doers program to enhance their employees’ volunteerism and charitable giving.

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2015 NTC Report: The Wins, The Fails, The Plans for 2016

NTEN

Both in attendee feedback and in our own debriefs, we''ve identified a number of points that we want to formally share back out here to gather additional feedback and share some of our thoughts as we look ahead to 2016 (in San Jose, March 23-25). Thank you, Austin, for giving us the gift of Interwebs!

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