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  • Reflections on the Digital Policy Leadership Summit

    Our inaugural Digital Policy Leadership Summit was both inspiring and affirming, and served as a springboard to accelerate the Policy Leadership program we are buliding with our emergent community and inspiring advisors. This event dramatically underscored the value that a plurality of voices, identities, experiences brings to essential digital policy conversations, and how crucial those voices are to driving meaningful policy change on the European level.

  • Moderators of the World Unite

    Social media as we know it depends on the work of tens of thousands of content moderators worldwide. Without this hidden army of key safety workers, there is no Facebook, no TikTok, no YouTube and no Google. They keep the internet safe for all of us. Despite their essential role, which comes at a terrible cost to their mental health, they remain underpaid and outsourced. That’s why we are proud to be co-hosting a landmark content moderator summit in Berlin.

    Learn more about the Summit
  • Making cryptographic software flawless

    Aspiration focuses on supporting the advancement of software engineering practices such as Reproducible Builds and cryptography. Since 2016, we have proudly co-organized the HACS Workshop, and HACS 2023 took place in Toyko in a participatory environment intended to foster collaborations towards making cryptographic software flawless.

    Learn more about this focus area
  • Fundraising with empathy, power, and creative energy

    Raising money doesn’t have to feel intimidating; it can be learned. When done properly, it can be a source of meaning, growth, and subversive joy for your donors, your team, and you. How to Raise Money (HtRM) is a series of strategic workshops, tools, and templates purpose-built to help emerging nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs bring partners, expertise, and resources to their missions.
    Learn more and join one of our peer learning cohorts...
  • Fiscal sponsorship as solidarity and movement building

    Aspiration proudly serves as a fiscal sponsor to mission-aligned technology, data, and digital rights projects. Our services provide emerging leaders with mentoring, support and rich operational infrastructure as they work through early-stage endeavors. We offer strategic program and product advising, coaching on revenue development and fundraising, finance and business model development, and community stewardship guidance.
    Learn more and let us know how we might support you...
  • Calling All Capacity Builders!

    Do you self-identify as a Capacity Builder? Are you interested in connecting at a peer level with others who do related work? Capacity Builders Convergences are envisioned as a collaborative and supportive environment to connect the broad range of practitioners who enable other organizations to strengthen strategies, principles, practices and sustainability. We aim to explore and promote open principles and collaborative approaches around methodologies and practices that can be applied to our work.
    Learn more and get involved...
  • Digital Futures Gathering 2022

    We were inspired and grateful to partner with Superrr Lab to co-create the first-ever Digital Futures Gathering. Independent researchers, activists and civil society practitioners convened in Berlin to shift our collective thinking from reactive to proactive, imagining just and sustainable digital futures and developing collaborative strategies to realize those visions.

    Explore outcomes and visualizations from the event...
  • Nonprofit Software Development Summit

    It's our 20th Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2023 Nonprofit Software Development Summit to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change efforts. To get a sense of what went down at our 2022 event, check out last year's agenda and session notes.

    Learn more and join us in November...
  • Collective longing for what science could be but isn’t…yet

    If we are to make a change in the world with science as a tool for good, we must listen to the stories of why people come to science, how they value and use science in their lives, and how science helps and hinders societal progress. We must center diverse articulations of what it will look like to reach this goal and will lead us to a place, a people, and a plan to satisfy our collective longing for what science could be but isn’t…yet.

    Explore the Civic Science Stories Zine...
  • Data Leadership through Peer Learning

    As civil society moves to increasingly data-centric and data-driven modes of doing work and making change, we face new challenges in stewarding and governing the assets that underlie and power those efforts. New types of leaders are emerging to meet these challenges, but few resources are available to inform governance, stewardship and long-term responsible leadership in data-centric missions and ventures. Aspiration, Digital Public, and Fenris are excited to announce the Data Leadership Cohort (DLC), an opportunity for these new leaders to meet, learn, and build connections with each other.
    Find out how to get involved...
  • Power Dynamics and Inclusion in Virtual Meetings

    Raise your hand if you have ever been in a virtual meeting where: One or two people do all the talking; You don't feel safe or empowered to share your thoughts, ideas, or questions; You don't feel the value of what you or others have to contribute is acknowledged by everyone in the meeting, especially the hosts...Sound familiar?

     

    We invite you to join us on a journey of learning toward addressing these dynamics
  • Forging Careers in Human Rights Technology - Survey

    Forging Careers in Human Rights Technology

    Having worked with and in support of information security practitioners in the human rights sector for over a decade, we have found that collaboration and cooperation are the backbone of this community of practice. Yet, many challenges and gaps hinder their practice and impact the contributions they are able to provide. We completed a survey to snapshot some of the key strengths and shortcomings of the infrastructure within which they operate today.

    Learn more and download the report
  • Protecting the Privacy of Your Video Conversations

    COVID-19 has mainstreamed video conferencing and Zoom has been the biggest beneficiary. It’s not just being used in professional settings but also for organizing, socializing, interpersonal communication and telehealth. In fact, telehealth and mental health conversations hosted on Zoom may make up some of virtual conferencing’s most intimate and sensitive content. But Zoom is not a fully private service. Fortunately, Signal provides a more private alternative.
    Learn more...

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Upcoming Event

2023 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

November 15-17, 2023 // in Preservation Park, Oakland California USA
Upcoming Event

2023 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

November 15-17, 2023 // Preservation Park, Oakland California USA
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HACS Workshop 2023

March 30 - April 01, 2023 // Tokyo, Japan

Events

Aspiration is a global leader in the design and delivery of innovative gatherings for nonprofit and nongovernmental audiences. Over the past fifteen years, we have convened and co-organized almost 700 highly interactive events in over 50 countries across the globe. Learn about what makes our events unique. >

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We provide a range of services to build capacity and community around technology for social change.  We welcome all of your nonprofit technology questions, from strategy and core concepts to proposal reviews, from nptech brainstorming to service referrals, along with career advice and technology relationship counseling.  Learn more about how we can work together >

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Aspiration offers a range of options for organizations interested in increasing their capacity around using technology.  Hands-on training, technical support, and coaching in strategy and implementation are provided by our experienced Aspiration program staff.

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From the Blog

Reflections on the Digital Policy Leadership Summit

by Raegan

Supporting Facilitative Leadership through Participatory Cohorts

// by evelyn

Power Dynamics and Inclusion in Virtual Meetings

// by evelyn

The Dev Summit is People First, Tech Later

// by aspiration

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Community

Aspiration is proud and delighted to work with an amazing, inspiring range of collaborators, partners and allies.

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SF Nonprofit Technology Center

Over the past 15 years, our "home base" in the San Francisco Mission District has provided collaborative office and meeting space for nonprofits and trainers working with technology for social change in the Bay Area. The Tech Center is on hiatus during the pandemic, and we hope to reopen in 2022.

"I have my mind blown by all the extremely passionate, smart, and generous people I met!"

Participant, Aspiration event

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Our Mission

Aspiration's mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.

We want those working for social, racial and climate justice to be able to find and use the best digital tools, resources and practices available, so that they maximize their effectiveness and impact and, in turn, change the world.

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit organization.

Read our Our Manifesto and let us know what you think.

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