Social change & nonprofit calendar: May

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Events guide for nonprofits & social change outfits

Following is a roundup of conferences and events scheduled in the nonprofit and social change sectors for the month of May. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social change conferences.

Even if you can’t attend, you should be able to follow part of the proceedings on Twitter — type in the name of the conference on Twitter Search and look for the hashtag associated with it (then click on it).

If you’re interested in social media, tech and marketing conferences, see the May calendar on our sister site, Socialmedia.biz.

Conference	Date	Place

May
NYC Symposium for Social Change	May 3	New York
The NYC Symposium for Social Change brings together the powerful economic tools of Wall Street with the entrepreneurship of social innovation to impact New York City’s most pressing issues in education, environment and impact investing.
Global Voices Citizen Media Summit	May 6-7	Santiago, Chile
Global Voices Online gathers with a diverse group of bloggers, activists, technologists and journalists from around the world for two days of public discussions and workshops. The theme of the meeting is “Next generation citizen media, public access and citizen participation.”
SHINE	May 13-15	London
As an antidote to business conferences or other social enterprise events, this unconference sets out to provide the space, place and time where people setting up their social enterprise could grow their business, learn from others in the same situation, and come away with their questions answered.
Games for Change Festival	May 24-27	New York
The seventh annual event takes place at Parsons The New School for Design.
Gov 2.0 Expo	May 25-27	Washington, DC
Government 2.0 is about empowering government employees to serve citizens better and opening up the government into a platform that enables citizens to better help their communities.