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Hi Everyone,
We have lots in store for you this month. From new team members to new online resources, you'll need to grab an extra cup of coffee and settle in to catch up on the latest chisme.
What's Inside
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Meet Our New Team Member
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Welcome Javier Kordi to the Aspiration team as our Communications Coordinator.
We are excited to have his company and storytelling skills around to amplify the voices of the communities we have the pleasure of working with.
Check out his first reflections from the recent CA Nonprofit Technology Festival in Los Angeles.
Say Hello
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Aspiration Awarded New Digital Age Grant
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has named Aspiration as one of ten nonprofits in the U.S. and abroad to be recipients of “New Digital Age” grants.
“The recipients chosen for the New Digital Age Grants are doing some very innovative and unique work, and I’m proud to offer them this encouragement,” said Schmidt. “Five billion people will encounter the Internet for the first time in the next decade. With this surge in the use of technology around the world—much of which we in the West take for granted—I felt it was important to encourage organizations that are using it to solve some of our most pressing problems.”
We are deeply humbled to be included alongside such inspiring and world-changing projects as Guardian Project, Citizen Lab, and Open Technology Institute.
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Connect with Fellow Technology Capacity Builders |
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At Penguin Day DC in March, we had the pleasure of convening with many reunited eRiders and technology capacity builders.
We hope to continue the focused and rich conversations with folks building technology capacity for nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and activists.
If you want to share what you are doing and how you do it, invite collaboration, and discover a space to ask for support, join us on the Capacity Builders discussion list to connect with capacity building efforts across the web and around the globe.
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Learning Resources: Online Listening for your Campaign
We've co-written a blog series about the cycle of online listening with our partner in crime from Fabriders, Dirk Slater.
Online listening requires identifying the key things that inform your work and then actively following the related online conversations. Through active online listening, you can learn a lot about the people, issues, and organizations you care about.
Read these blog posts to learn how online listening can strengthen your social change and online efforts. Plus, get free online tools and templates to actually make it happen.
Dirk has two decades of experience supporting social justice movements and is a nice guy to boot. You can also find these articles hosted on Fabriders.
A heartfelt thanks to the experienced online listeners who shared their tools and methods with us so that we could pass them along to others. We are especially grateful to Matt Fitzgerald and the team at Upwell, as well as to Susan Tenby, the Online Community and Social Media Guru at Caravan Studios, for their commitment to listening and sharing their best practices with the community.
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Hope to Connect Soon!
If you are in Los Angeles on May 15, join us at the Mercado La Paloma for an Online Advocacy and Community Building Training for nonprofits and community-based organizations.
Otherwise, drop us a line anytime, or stop by our offices, the San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center at 16th and Mission in SF.
best,
misty
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Misty Avila
Program Director
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