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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 16:01 |
From Celeste Hamilton, who works in our Buenos Aires office.
::image::Currently working or volunteering with a local community in Latin America, or about to be? Have a knack for storytelling? Idealist.org is seeking 10 or so initial bloggers from all over this vibrant region to share experiences, ideas and resources for the "La Vida Idealist" blog.
The "La Vida Idealist" blog will be community powered, with its target population being English-speaking expats/travelers who are interested in... |
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 13:08 |
By Steven Joiner, one of the Directors of the Career Transitions program and co-author of the Career Corner series.
::image::Our Career Transitions team has the pleasure of attending lots of events, giving presentations, and otherwise conversing with professionals looking for meaningful work in the nonprofit sector. Everyone's experiences are unique, but I do get plenty of frequently-asked questions. I recently sat down with my colleague Jung Fitzpatrick to discuss some of the common answers I... |
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Monday, 22 June 2009 09:15 |
Posted by Julia Smith.
::image::President Obama has asked everyone in the United States to heed the call of service – to pitch in and make their communities a better place. YouTube is stepping up to provide a very "21st century" way of doing just that: a new program called YouTube's Video Volunteers.
The mission of YouTube's Video Volunteers platform is to connect nonprofit organizations with skilled video makers who can help them broadcast their causes through video, reaching new audiences... |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 14:26 |
Compiled by Scott Stadum and Douglas Coulter.
::image::IdealistNews is a project of Idealist.org and Reddit where users like you can submit nonprofit news stories from around the web and vote on your favorites. Here's a roundup of some recent hot stories (titled the way users submitted them).AIG Wants Charity Money Back To Pay Bonuses
A Brutally Honest Film About The Killing of 23,000 Dolphins
A slideshow of the protests today in Iran - a mix of newswire and amateur photos on the ground
UN... |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 09:21 |
By Joanna Eng, who also blogs at Idealist in NYC.
::image::We're no stranger to fundraising strategies that involve baked goods. Here's another yummy model for grassroots fundraising on a global scale:
Starting tomorrow, June 20, the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale starts selling goodies, well, around the world! Over 70 community groups from New Zealand to Nigeria to North Carolina are organizing their own bake sales in the coming week as part of this worldwide initiative. And the proceeds go to... |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 10:59 |
By Amy Potthast, creator of The New Service podcast and blog.
::image::June is Pride Month, so The New Service podcast from Idealist.org is taking a closer look at the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals serving in the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps. To listen now, click here.
Our guests are lesbian and gay former service corps participants:Chad Jeremy, a former AmeriCorps NCCC corps member, currently a training specialist with AmeriCorps NCCC in Perry Point... |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 08:23 |
From our staff.
::image::Who invented the Internet? Al Gore? Google? DARPA? Norbert Wiener?
You can probably find someone who will tell you, with great authority, that almost any guess you have heard is completely correct. Or completely bogus.
On the related – but much simpler – question of how nonprofits started using the Internet, a pioneer of that movement has done some online research. Jayne Craven’s “Brief Review” of developments before 1996 in online work by NPOs is posted... |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:11 |
By Joanna Eng, who can usually be found blogging at Idealist in NYC.
::image::Changemakers.com, which hosts contests to help people get their ideas for social change off the ground, has just unveiled its new look and feel. Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka, a nonprofit that works to support social entrepreneurs. The new design aims to turn the website into a community, with interactive features adding more opportunities for connection.
The web team also did their best to make the new... |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 09:38 |
From our Grad Fair team.
::image::Today is the big day! If you're in the area, the Idealist.org Washington DC Graduate Fair for the Public Good is tonight from 5-8 pm at American University.
Not in the DC area? Maybe you can attend the New York City event instead. It's tomorrow, June 18, from 5-8 pm and hosted by the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.
At each fair, we'll have representatives from 61 social impact graduate programs. Yu'll also be able to meet our event... |
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:07 |
From Kara Montermoso, who will be at our table at Boot Camp!
::image::This weekend, Craigslist Foundation will host its 6th annual Boot Camp for nonprofit organizations and individuals interested in making a difference in their communities nationwide. It will be held on Saturday, June 20, 2009, on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The all-day program focuses on skills for connecting, motivating and inspiring greater community involvement and impact with an emphasis on... |
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 09:50 |
Posted by Julia Smith.
::image::Idealist is partnering with Mozilla and a number of other organizations for the first-ever Mozilla Service Week later this year. From September 14-21, members of the Mozilla network will be encouraged to volunteer with nonprofits and NGOs, lending a hand with hardware, software, social media, and other technology and web support.
What does this mean for nonprofits in our network?If there's something you've been meaning to learn ("What the heck does 'Web 2.0'... |
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Monday, 15 June 2009 09:44 |
From Scott Stadum.
::image::The results from last Friday's Iranian election have sparked massive protests in the streets of Tehran and other cities throughout the country, despite the government's best efforts to disable SMS and cell phone signals and block websites like Facebook and Twitter.
Tweets, videos, blog entries and other media are making their way out of Iran due in part to the efforts of global citizens setting up proxy servers that are allowing people on the ground to bypass the... |
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 09:35 |
By Meg, who pretends to be a pizzaiola. Find the entire Career Corner series here.
::image::I read this interview with Matthew May, the author of In Pursuit of Elegance, a few weeks ago, and it’s been rolling around in my brain since then. In May’s book, he defines something as elegant when it is both unusually simple and surprisingly powerful.
One of the reasons I’ve enjoyed thinking about this interview is because I love how the mirror of elegance can be held up to anything with... |
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 16:00 |
From our team in Portland, Oregon:
::image::Last November, we blogged about a mentorship program taking place in our office where four of the women on our staff would be mentoring a small group of teenage girls. Coordinated by Girls, Inc. of NW Oregon, the Associates Mentoring Program provides opportunities for busy professional women to join forces with girls in crafting a project to explore different career paths, develop new skills, get to know one another, and have fun in the... |
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 09:26 |
From Celeste Hamilton:
::image::Interested in finding free or low cost volunteer opportunities in Argentina? Have a project or skill you want to get the word out about? Keen on meeting other Idealists just like you?
Join us for the More than Mate: Volunteering in Argentina meet-up on June 16th!
With over two thousand nonprofit organizations in Buenos Aires alone, we know it can be tough to navigate the NGO landscape in a foreign country. So we're teaming up with Voluntarios Sin Fronteras to... |
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 10:15 |
By Hannah, who's down with efficiency.
Would you like to help cure muscular dystrophy? How about cancer? Find new influenza antiviral drugs? Fight AIDS?
Even if you don't have a background in science or medicine, you can contribute. It's easier that you think, thanks to a technology called grid computing. Grid computing creates a system of many individual computers that have greater computational power that a handful of supercomputers. The computational work is split into small pieces that... |
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Monday, 01 June 2009 09:27 |
By Steven Joiner. Read more Career Corner posts here.
::image::A recent report by The Bridgespan Group finds that nonprofit leaders from around the country foresee difficulty in filling 24,000 senior management positions in 2009 alone. The report, entitled Finding Leaders for America's Nonprofits, also addresses some of the reasons for this difficulty.
While the prospect of 24,000 nonprofit leadership positions sounds on the surface like fantastic news for anyone interested in meaningful... |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 12:57 |
From Douglas Coulter, who is known as DouglasCoulter on IdealistNews.
::image::IdealistNews is a project of Idealist.org and Reddit where users like you can submit nonprofit news stories from around the web and vote on your favorites.
Here's a roundup of some of the hottest stories from last week (as titled by the users who submitted them):A Little Caesars franchisee in Florida recently started donating all unsold pizzas to a United Way soup kitchen
A Vibrant US Train Industry Would Employ... |
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Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:28 |
From Put Barber, editor of the Nonprofit FAQ.
::image::Today is World Play Day. All you need do to participate in the celebration all over the globe is play. In a park, on a card-table, online, wherever you like.
World Play Day is sponsored by the International Toy Library Association, a Belgium-based umbrella group for organizations that offer the loan of toys or opportunities for shared play.
A search on Idealist.org for "toy library" turns up only three organizations. If you know of one... |
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 16:13 |
By Scott Stadum.
::image::About a month ago, the effectiveness of Facebook Causes was the focus of bloggers and journalists alike. Of the 179,000 nonprofits registered with Causes, only a tiny fraction raised anywhere near $1,000 and the median gift through the Facebook application is about $25 – while through traditional means, it's $50.
Of course there is no "magic bullet" for online fundraising and there are a number of reasons people are hesitant to give. From donor fatigue to... |
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