Some things has been gnawing on me since I watched Steve MacLaughlin’s superb presentation on the state of online giving. Two slides, around the 1/4 and 2/5ths mark, caught my attention: They show that according to Blackbaud’s data, which is no doubt legion, 5% (and growing fast) of giving in the US occurs online, while [...]
I heard about SamaSource at South by South West from @whiteafrican, @tmsruge, and some others at the Appfrica panel. Or, perhaps one of them mentioned it to me at Convio’s #nptech after party….? Either way, SamaSource is an organization which aims to connect marginalized people with outsourced technical work. I’ve been working with developers and [...]
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 [...]
