The debut of The Hoop Fund from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Social enterprise offers virtuous circle around loans, production, connections in a ‘fair trade ecosystem’ Last night I got a first-hand look at the debut of The Hoop Fund, a new social enterprise (tagline: Lend. Produce. Enjoy.) with a terrific pedigree and promising future. […]
Archives for August 2010
Get the new Tweet Button for WordPress Plug-in
Last year Socialbrite contributed an open source plug-in to the WordPress community called WP-License Plugin Reloaded — a way for bloggers to assign different Creative Commons licenses to each of their blog posts. Today we’re proud to announce that our developer David R. Davis has released the first Tweet Button for WordPress. It’s an option […]
Top 10 sites for free or low-cost photos
Quality, affordable choices for your nonprofit include Fotolia, morgueFile, Bigstock Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, foundations, businesses, individuals. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make media. By Kim Bale Socialbrite staff We live in a visual age. Top-tier […]
What’s driving your organization?
How nonprofits should deal with technological change from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Universal Giving founder/CEO offers strategies for engagement in social responsibility Tonight Pamela Hawley, founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, is headlining an event at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco titled The Leading Edge for Corporate Social Responsibility. (I’m a member but won’t be […]
Cool Gov 2.0 sites you don’t know about
Web 2.0-fueled resources to help each other as citizens Target audience: Political activists, change agents, NGOs, nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, librarians, citizens. It’s become a cliché to be skeptical of what government can do for society. But there’s a burgeoning movement called Government 2.0, the term for attempts to apply the social networking and […]