We love the work of grassroots and social justice organizations doing advocacy and community work in rural parts of California around issues as diverse as water safety and health to worker's rights and violence prevention.
Aspiration provides a range of eAdvocacy resources related to online communications and best practices in nonprofit technology.
The following materials are part of our Four Processes for Sustainable Online Impact trainings. The workshops teach essential strategies for getting the most out of various online channels as an organization.
Aspiration is delighted to be working with Mozilla on Mozilla Service Week, taking place September 14-21, 2009.
We'll be hosting trainings at the San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center to train other nonprofits on essential online strategy and data security topics.
Rudi von Staden at Ungana Afrika is starting a research project looking into different ways that ICT students or recent graduates can be engaged to provide capacity building and technology support to NGOs and Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. If you are personally involved in one, or know of other projects that he can contact to participate in the research, please contact them via http://www.ungana-afrika.org/projects/sdp.htm , which also provides more information on the project.
Our friends in London are hosting the second London Social Source event, in affiliation with the global Penguin Day movement.
Adrian from LASA writes:
Social Source UK 05 is for those interested in the potential of free & open source software and methods for the voluntary and non-profit sector.
Programme for SocialSource 2005:
We here at Aspiration and all of the previous recipients of the Dirk Award are happy to announce the 2005 winner of the award: Ungana-Afrika. Here is the official announcement. Congratulations!
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