Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The example he used was the hero myth: an underdog starts from nothing, becomes educated or stronger by way of a mentor, and then saves the world. Sachs said that organizations must make their audiences the hero and put themselves in the place of the mentor. Create Documentaries for Your Cause.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. And we now have 500 highly qualified Mentor Teachers—very special people who assist their peers in using Bookshare and assist us in testing new products and features. Have an Android device? and a new audio option for Spanish titles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Susie Halksworth started to write a blog when she was made responsible for implementing the Advice For Life FOSS project, testing free and open source software for the VCS. mentoring from the computer consultant??? t mentor, he did it all, and is actually the person who has brought in Foss at AFL, not me. Also the ???mentoring

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

Inspired by TechStars and YCombinator , the Garage creates a ( drupal platform) community where current and potential applications for funding can enter their ideas, share comments and peer review, and request mentor support to improve their application before they submit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

Behind me was Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Miro , a HD open source video player. I could not resist striking up a conversation with them, especially since we had so much rough turbulence that it helped distract me. I'll certainly be exploring these tools and programs in more depth.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. A great many people in my Mentor Program consult with non-profits. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

The luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo , a new york city based activist, organizer, blogger, barcamper and coworker. ve hired and mentored fifty-seven Cambodians who???ve Photo by Noneck. Here's the official press release ). most pressing needs. Gradually, we???ve Dr. Nancy Hendrie.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

One of my mentors, Michael Brown, told me, “The only way to get better is to change.” The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. He was talking poetry, but over time I’ve found it to be one of the most useful, challenging ways to approach a range of situations.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Two of the agencies didn’t explain that it also offered career counseling and mentoring, while one didn’t have its website address. But each of the records had different descriptions of the application process and only one explained about its curfew and waiting list policy. This is not a time to be proprietary,” Soward tells Said.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

The project will morph in to something called Brigade , a project of Brigade Media , which is a consortium led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Sean Parker, who founded Napster and mentored Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source."

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