Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults. They specialize in providing both hard and soft job skills.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. The organization is currently fundraising to build an online hackathon and social app collaboration center. The Institute side of the organization conducts research on the intersection of LGBT communities and technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

He later joined Kiva.org in San Francisco, a crowdfunding platform which has raised over $1 billion to entrepreneurs worldwide. 18% create online peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns to benefit organizations. ? 20% give to organizations located outside of their country of residence. ? 78% of donors in Kenya volunteer.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. Leonard Library.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. We profiled Toronto’s Net2Local organizer Tierney Smith to learn why TechSoup Canada hosts a meetup group. Thursday, November 7.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

I spoke with Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented LocalFreeWeb at the previous breakfast. Joseph first heard of the LocalFreeWeb project a little over a year ago at Hack Night for Code for San Francisco. But first, it needs further adoption in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

They managed to pump out reports and research, organize webinars and conferences, and even play around with the definition of volunteering. What would your organization look like if you had access to the same services and resources as a for-profit company? Need some inspiration to get your organization''s website updated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Salim Virgi The social web offers a welcome place for individual philanthropic activity (original homeless image by jlmccoy ).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

They managed to pump out reports and research, organize webinars and conferences, and even play around with the definition of volunteering. What would your organization look like if you had access to the same services and resources as a for-profit company? Need some inspiration to get your organization''s website updated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. As a fairly new nonprofit, this online contest gave us the ability to gain exposure and compete with some more established organizations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. For the last 20+ years, she has worked in management with and for nonprofit organizations. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa. “I’m Isabella Gonzalez Potter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's taking place this year in San Francisco from April 26-28th. The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SF New Deal began with a vision of San Francisco as a world class city that provides an abundance of support, opportunity, dignity, respect, and appreciation for small businesses and neighbors in need. SF New Deal launched in March 2020 as a rapid response to the COVID pandemic in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

She recalls once talking to a woman who was trying to take over the IT role in her organization even though she had no IT experience. " Outside of work, he enjoys playing soccer, disc golf, and going to live concerts, and he is really getting to like San Francisco. " His charitable interest is addressing homelessness.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

Perhaps the image of inefficient organizations with layers of "fat," overpaid administrators, and wasteful spending? Ghaffari laid out a hypothetical situation: Imagine a homeless shelter funded through two contracts, one from HUD and the other from the City of San Francisco. For example, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

But for now, Listening and feedback loops are important skills for nonprofit leaders and for organizations to get better results. A recent study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) finds that 99 percent of nonprofit organizations collect feedback from the people they seek to help. The answer is…sort of….

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

The sessions are themed around the mission or focus of the organization (youth, food rescue, animal welfare, and so on), and the guests are experts within their respective fields. In a moderated discussion, the guests list problems that arise in the day-to-day operations of their organizations and brainstorm ways technology might solve them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

In San Francisco, Yoga Sangha is hosting a "Spiritual Activation Series" with lecture, yoga and meditation. On Gaiam , you can buy organic cotton T-shirts that say, "Off the Matt, Into the World," to help raise money for YouthAids , an AIDS prevention and education program created by yoga instructor, Seane Corn.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. Limit one submission per organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast, where we talk with individuals and organizations who are creating positive change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. I'm a literary agent in San Francisco, with the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents , and we've been in business a long time here in San Francisco. Elizabeth Pomada: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Pomada.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

As I wrote this post on the flight back from my third NTEN Conference I know I felt similar to many of the other 1,600 “NPTechies” (Nonprofit Techies) who are leaving San Francisco. Some people work one-on-one with organizations consulting on anything from technology budgeting to online social media strategy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! A community organizer named Greg Bloom has been working on this for over five years. So far – sounds great.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Jen Fu Cheng | Peak Potential Climbing | Fairfield, NJ Peak Potential is an organization running a 12-week introduction to rock climbing for children with physical disabilities. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6. Twitter: @PeakClimb ) 7. Twitter: @PDXJrScientists ) 16. Twitter: @cityhallfellows ) 17. Twitter: @americasvoice ) 20.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Britt Bravo: Can you talk a little bit about some of your programs and some of the things that the organization does? We are a Center whose Co-founder just left after 17 years of work in the organization, which is pretty impressive, I think, in the nonprofit world. That is really where the origins of the work came out of.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Now there are organized events happening locally. People have organized group gives in Atlanta, Houston, a couple times in Los Angeles, and it will happen tomorrow in San Francisco, that as a group we get together and give away roses to strangers. There's actually a homeless couple who is taking part.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you think a web overhaul might make sense for your organization, make sure you have the right tools on hand to start making improvements yourself—namely, a strong website builder and nonprofit-specific web development support. On every page of their site, you’ll quickly see just how much of an impact this organization has!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. Craigsconnect has also supported the Tenderloin Tech Lab, a computer lab that serves low-income and homeless people in San Francisco.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Nonprofit advocacy, like fundraising, is (or should be) embedded in organizations’ DNA. As the writers of Prisms of the People point out, “…power is not a function of organizational resources alone, it is a function of the breadth of strategic choices an organization has to navigate political uncertainty.” . Pressure/Persuasion.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

Your organization needs a nonprofit content marketing strategy. Does this really give a clue what your organization does, or why anyone should care? Or it’s so organization-centric folks don’t think it has much to do with them or their lives. . Nothing comes from nothing. Replete with, dare I say it, content. Ask via survey.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" Here's this action you should take, this thing you should boycott, this organization you should know about." I moved to San Francisco. It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or.

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