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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In honor of Gerry Davis, April 2018 My mentor passed away earlier this month. I have had the benefit of numerous mentors over my long career, but Gerry Davis was The Mentor. And stuck was the operative word: I stayed in that role for seven years. Gervaise Davis III, Esq.

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve Struggling Youth

Tech Soup

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. However, while mentoring and running educational programs, Veronika realized that she was very empowered and rewarded by the progress among the youth she engaged with. " Challenges for BITS.

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve At-Risk Youth

Tech Soup

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. However, while mentoring and running educational programs, Veronika realized that she was very empowered and rewarded by the progress among the youth she engaged with. " Challenges for BITS.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Community ownership of software is in itself consonant with the missions of many nonprofit organizations, whose role is in strengthening community. Open source software is also playing an increasing role in fueling the rapidly growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-demand applications space. and licensing models.