See Part 1 if you need some background. This part is more for web nerds, or people who aren’t afraid of learning some of our arcane rituals and glyphs.
I’m going to assume you’re familiar with and have used REST APIs in the past. If not, I’m going to make a wild stab at an explanation. [...]
All For Good launched very recently as an aggregator of service opportunities within the United States. Earlier this spring I got involved with Social Actions, which is an aggregator of worldwide service and micro-loan opportunities. Both offer APIs for creating apps and republishing their data, and both are open source projects of one form or [...]
I was tempted to wander around rhetorically for a few paragraphs talking about how to make choices about which nonprofits to support when you’re a nonprofit consultant, do you go with your beliefs, support your friends, or do you try to get leads, etc etc. But, that’s kind of dumb because the rad people running [...]
NTC was, for me, a catharsis. It validated my decision, a bit more than a year ago, to commit myself to the risk and reward of entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector. The feeling was akin to the first few weeks on the ‘engineering floor’ of my freshman dormatory: A discovery that those around me are [...]
In the spring of 2009 we helped create a unique tool for connecting people with volunteer and donation opportunities, as part of the Change the Web challenge. It’s a great contest, and a cool technology, but it needs some explanation….
