The Case Foundation is giving away $650,000 in grants and prizes as part of its initiative, Finding Fearless, with REI & Microsoft! The first phase is to get crowdsourced nominations of "fearless changemakers," people who have a social change project in the early stages and a Fearless prize could help them make the leap to scaling. The point is that the initiative is trying to identify and support innovative approaches to on the ground social change. Here's how they are describing … [Read more...]
[Reflection] Mashable #sgsGLOBAL: How Do We Get From Collective Conversation To Action To Impact?
I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit, a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Held during UN Week and Clinton Global Initiative, the speakers and agenda was diverse, interesting, and inspiring. The event was designed for the Mashable audience, a younger and social media savvy group that has the hunger and capacity to consumer a lot of content … [Read more...]
#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012
Giving Tuesday hopes to spark a movement of people and organizations who want to celebrate giving and encourage more and smarter giving during the holiday season. The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. The idea is to harnesses the collective power of the social good sector ecosystem which includes charities, … [Read more...]
[Research] Data on Nonprofit Cloud Computing: Anywhere, Anytime Technology for Social Change
Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, "What the heck is a blog?," Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen. For the past year or so, she's thinking about and talking … [Read more...]
Community Organizing and Social Justice Measurement in the Connected Age
Note from Beth: Shonali Burke, who we interviewed in "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, let me know about an exciting project she is working on with the Center for Community Change that is hosting the 8th Annual Change Champion Awards (in DC) today (Sept. 20) at the AFL-CIO headquarters in conjunction with the Campaign for Community Change. We got into a conversation about the challenges of measuring the success of community organizing and social justice in a connected age. There is … [Read more...]
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