Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo,  launched.   Here's the article from today's New York Times.   Many of us have been up early playing with  Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations.   It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 errors, which will smooth out as more people play with it and give them feedback.   As the platform matures,  we'll get a … [Read more...]

Not long after we received our final letter from Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman our family has been sponsoring for college over the past four years,  the first royalty check from The Networked Nonprofit arrived!  It was with sincere joy that I was able to donate the full amount of my share of the royalities to the Sharing Foundation in support of the educational programs.   So, while I am delighted with the response to book ,  I'm even more pleased that the book is able to help young … [Read more...]

I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events.   This morning I did an interactive session at the Guardian hosted by its new voluntary sector network - a new online space where professionals working in and with the voluntary sector can discuss and debate the issues which affect their professional lives - and get advice and insight from peers and experts.   The audience was a mix of CEOs from the UK's largest charities and a mix of longtime social … [Read more...]

I've just spent the last couple of days in  Nairobi, Kenya because I'm a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi, an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency.  I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs.   This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the … [Read more...]