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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Join the Aspiration Team - Finance Operations Lead

    Aspiration is seeking a full-time Finance Operations Lead to provide leadership in all aspects of financial operations, including accounting, banking, contracting, accounts payable/receivable, payroll, tax filings, audit support, grants administration, and donation tracking. Help us more broadly deliver on our mission by putting in place improved infrastructure and automation of our systems and services in order to help more technology and data projects make a positive difference in the world!
    Learn more about the position and apply...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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
  • Nonprofit Software Development Summit

    Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists convened online to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free and open technology to support social change efforts at the 2021 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Dev Summit 2022 will take place 16-18 November 2022. To get a sense of what might come up, check out the agenda and session notes from the 2021 Dev Summit.

  • 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...
  • 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

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Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization. Read Our Manifesto and let us know what you think.

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November 16-18, 2022 // in (Hopefully) Preservation Park, Oakland California USA
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2021 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

November 17-19, 2021 // Location: online

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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

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

Report: Forging Careers in Human Rights Information Security Today

// by beatrice

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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.

Gunner and the Aspiration team have been an incredible inspiration and resource for us at OpenNews. Their guidance and feedback have shaped everything from how support relationship building amongst cohorts to planning goal-oriented meetings where participants leave with a feeling of accomplishment and a sense of purpose.

Erika Owens, OpenNews

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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.

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