SOCAP Europe will contain a track on the Middle East & North Africa region. Events guide for nonprofits & social change organizations Here’s a roundup of conferences and events scheduled in the nonprofit and social change sectors for the month of May. I’ll be heading to British Columbia for the first time on May […]
6 ways YouTube is helping out nonprofits
The highlight of last month’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., for me came when Ramya Raghavan, YouTube’s News and Politics Manager, detailed all the programs and services that YouTube provides for the nonprofit community. At NTC, Google announced that nonprofits no longer needed to apply to each program individually — now an all-in-one application […]
Will mobile tools help turn empathy into action?
Perhaps the most anticipated keynote at last week’s Where 2.0 conference in California’s Silicon Valley came from D.J. Patil, the former chief scientist of LinkedIn who is now chief product officer of the hot Silicon Valley startup Color, which recently raked in $41 million in venture backing.
15 ways to crowdfund your startup or project
Have you considered asking the community to support your new enterprise? Target audience: Social enterprises, nonprofits, volunteer groups, sustainable businesses, community organizations. Guest post by Kerry Given Green Marketing TV Finding funding can be one of the biggest challenges for social entrepreneurs. Fortunately, there is a growing number of options for social entrepreneurs and […]
Scenes from the Where 2.0 mobile conference
I caught a fair chunk of the Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. I think it’s fair to say this is the best annual gathering of thought leaders in the mobile space — people from the future who beam in to bring us up to speed on where this whole mobile revolution is taking us.