Social Entrepreneurs – anywhere, everywhere

(Photo by Elsie Esq, Creative Commons Attribution, Flickr) Social entrepreneurs are hot. Whether they’re building new ways to get water to rural farmers, developing LED light sources for those who live too far from the grid, training inner city residents for jobs in sustainable energy, or organizing groups of young people from different faiths, these [...]

Influentials in nonprofit tech

Beth Kanter was named one of the most influential activists by Fast Company Magazine as part of a recent feature on women and web 2.0. Beth expanded on the list and added several categories of potential interest to readers here, including: Nonprofit Technology, Social Change Activists, Big Picture Thinkers, Nonprofit Social Media Strategists, and Nonprofit [...]

All Hands on Deck

Mario Morino of Venture Philanthropy Partners has a great view on the opportunities contained in tough times. Read his perspective here. From the grassroots the GiveList effort (#givelist) provides real-world, real-time, real-people examples of actions we can take to make the world a little better. (My plan is to sit down with my kid to [...]

Change The Web 2009

Here I was, thinking about my 2008 end of year predictions and the last few buzzwords for the year when I get a tweet from Peter Deitz and – the next thing I know – its January 2009. Well not really, but it is in Peter’s world. The new SocialActions website is live and the [...]

Tech Roundup 2008.2

I’m on day 2 of a 14 day East Coast/European business trip so my posting schedule may be a bit jet lagged. That said, I just found this post over at SocialActions and realized I could skip ahead on an entire tech roundup simply by linking to Peter’s notes on platforms. The SocialActions post notes [...]

Giving trends…on the other hand

I’m not the only one wondering about a down year for charitable giving – this article from Slate predicts a “Charity crisis” – ands builds the case off the same informal predictor of giving trends that I use – the Robin Hood Fund’s annual fundraisingpalooza. Daniel Gross‘s article has some useful insights: Drops in philanthropic [...]