Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In San Francisco, it took a small group of motivated people to come together to create a nonprofit. Starting with a Small Budget, FUF Plants Nearly Half San Francisco's Street Trees. The group eventually even worked with the city to create San Francisco's first ever Urban Forest Plan.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Guest Beneblog by Megan Price I recently had the opportunity to present several of HRP’s projects to the local San Francisco chapter of the American Statistical Association (SFASA). Quite a few are hoping to volunteer for us in the future!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2022

Students became citizen scientists, measuring their local environment, studying and sharing the results with the global citizen science network, and affecting local law by presenting data that showed the severe impact of annual New Year’s fireworks in Davos on local air quality.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 19, 2022

Twilio’s chief social impact officer, Erin Reilly, says: “Nonprofits are some of the most technically innovative organizations and this research highlights the digital strategies they’re embracing to deepen impact and improve program outcomes.”. The Future is Digital, Personal, and Impact-Driven.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

Adam De Rose, Interfaith Worker Justice Blog Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) advances the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. The blog covers social design and the Millennium Development Goals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Brooklyn, New York: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, February 3, 2017.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members? San Francisco, CA – September TBA. Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

I used to do this weekly when I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank because breaking news, changes in government policy, and disruptions in the economy tended to have an outsized impact on our work, the need in the community, and what donors cared about.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: SFTech4Good Peer Learning Brunch. San Francisco, California: Summer Service with Net Impact SF Pro. Wednesday, July 8, 2015.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

One of Senator Harkin’s top priorities is making a real impact on disability employment numbers. We hosted Harkin and ten fellow social entrepreneurs at the cool space of the Hub SoMa, in the heart of San Francisco. In his April 2011 keynote address at the U.S. million to 6 million by 2015. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2010

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out these two upcoming events for nonprofits (including grassroots organizations and start-up nonprofits). The other event later in the month is CompassPoint's Nonprofit Day 2010 on Tuesday, August 31 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse. Remote Work. But maybe you're not convinced.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Brings a strategic focus on addressing the policies and systems that perpetuate global poverty . San Francisco Ballet. Global CTO, Tech for Social Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. Guest post by Sam Gregory. and that phrase still sticks with me.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. The IMPACT Conference. The IMPACT Conference. 40th Annual FAE Nonprofit Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Finally, substantiating impact and success to risk-averse board members may be vexing. Through this initiative, we are supporting a group of dynamic, next-generation leaders in the social justice field in the San Francisco Bay Area as they retool their organizations for greater impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 27, 2008

But, like many social entrepreneurs, I'm beginning to figure out that being absent from the halls of policy is not serving our mission. He is a huge figure in disability policy, and it was an honor to get to talk to him about what we're doing. Next, we were advocating to the Department of Education that they formally ok this.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit was recently hacked by an ex-employee. Think about the impact it would have on your organization to shut down for two weeks. While no system is perfectly secure, there is a lot that even smaller nonprofits can do to greatly reduce the risk of being impacted by being hacked.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

While this letter is a positive step, both a panel at this year's Stronger Together Conference and follow-up interviews with the participants demonstrates that more than open letters will be needed to change the conversation around costs, impact, overhead, and mission. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. When the crisis kicked off, there were a lot of people who were for education or education policy for whom education policy stopped being very important. The policy goal post moves, and we want to move with it.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Social media policy: cartoon-blogging , Rob Cottingham. Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Vinay Bhagat of Convio , Clint O'Brien. Free Access to State Legislative Information Paves Way for Political Action , San Francisco Chronicle. Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization , Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Illuminate successes, failures, and ongoing experimentation so foundations can build on each other's ideas to increase impact. Governance Policies & Information. HR/Staffing Policies & Information. Highlight the many stories of philanthropy that show how private wealth is serving the public good.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

In August 2012, the Public Policy Institute of California reported that San Diego’s digital divide had narrowed by 20 percent since 2008, and San Diego had pulled even with San Francisco as the most connected county in California. So, in November, I created a company, Adapt ∞ Impact , to do just that.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

Jeff Brandenburg: My role at the Irvine Foundation is Director of Technology for our offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. To achieve this new direction, we have outsourced most of the day-to-day network administration so I can focus on other projects that impact our staff and grantees. driven grants management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. Some are calling it impact investing. I’ve lifted this from their website. . "To

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

These realities make it more evident that each nonprofit needs a unified voice, powerful enough to withstand the process of making policy. Others equate it to the number of messages sent to decision makers, or by looking at whether a policy measure either passes or fails by vote in committee or on the floor of a legislative body.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2016

Organizations may, however, involve themselves in issues of public policy without the activity being considered as lobbying. This is when a nonprofit seeks to improve or expand its own programs at the expense of not leveraging the organization’s expertise and other capabilities for field-building, policy-making and broader societal change.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. Finance / @nysscpa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

One of the reasons I think the issue of genocide in Darfur, and in other places, hasn't reached the mainstream consciousness, is that it is hard to find actions that make concerned citizens feel like they are having an impact. April 9 Attend a protest along the Olympic Torch relay route in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I've been traveling around the country with our Social Media for Nonprofits conference series (coming to San Francisco on 11/4 with TechSoup's Marnie Webb keynoting, Atlanta on 11/17 , and NYC on 1/30/12 - save $20 with "TechSoup" code) and promoting my new book, Nonprofit Management 101. Representative Samples?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Jack has 30 years’ experience within the charitable and philanthropic industry that he brings to the forefront with IMPACTism. Social Good Tech Week ’s official date is yet to be determined, but it will be held in the spring of next year in San Francisco. public policy. Like Hubspot on Facebook.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. RE-volv's Solar Policy & Finance 101 slide show is well worth looking at. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Prior to Inner City Advisors, Jose served as the development director for five years at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that provides microenterprise business technical assistance and neighborhood planning services to small businesses. That's a good question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002.

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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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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). The mission of this foundation is to encourage women’s involvement in philanthropy and make a significant difference in the Southern San Francisco community. 100 Women Charitable Foundation.

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