Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

Will you be in San Francisco on April 25th? "At local Penguin Days non-profit organizations explore the range of issues and options involved using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS)." ." Penguin Day Agenda - pd.aspirationtech.org - Are you heading to the NTC this month?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. In the US, the Chicago and Portland groups visited their local Microsoft stores to learn how to leverage the Office 365 donation. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Our NetSquared leaders are currently holding free events in 24 countries and meet with their local TechSoup partners to collaborate on how to best support nonprofits in their country. Find your local #Tech4Good group. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Or if face-to-face is more your style, join your local NetSquared group — NetSquared groups are holding digital storytelling events all month. San Francisco, California: Discounted Tickets for Impact Investing: Business Innovation Conversation II. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source.

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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. in Environmental Management with a concentration in Water Management, both from the University of San Francisco. Jennifer Anderson.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

If you weren't able to join us in San Francisco last week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we've got a recap of some of the happenings here on our blog. 12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from Ariel Gilbert-Knight. 12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from Ariel Gilbert-Knight.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

" While you might think that it came from the satirical The Onion , it was actually a real headline from our local newspaper here in San Francisco. San Francisco, like many cities embracing the open data movement, has a dedicated data site with all sorts of data available for free for anyone to download and use.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. "Similar to their corporate counterparts, nonprofits are discovering that they can increase their effectiveness while maintaining lower operating costs by utilizing Web-based and open source tools. What Is Web 2.0?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

To localize Networked Nonprofit concepts to an Arab NGO context, as appropriate, for improved project outcomes. It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

The Bay Area based World of Good Development Organization has created a Fair Trade Wage Guide to help artisans calculate a “fair wage in a local context.” "At The Guide is built with free, open-source technology so that it is easy for artisans to use with their own systems. Cross-posted from WorldChanging San Francisco.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

Regina is our amazing co-organizer of San Francisco Tech4Good , the NetSquared-affiliated group in the Bay Area. Birgit goes above and beyond quite often to provide pro bono technology help to local nonprofit organizations. " Regina Walton. Regina manages the largest NetSquared group in the network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. We opened up Citizen Space in San Francisco in November of last year, of 2006.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. AirBnB will allow hosts to donate to local causes; will add smoke detectors, will work on joint campaigns with the city and improve disaster preparedness.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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