Holly Ross, executive director, NTEN (Photo by JD Lasica) Superguide to events for nonprofits & social change organizations Following is a roundup of conferences and events scheduled in the nonprofit and social change sector in 2010, with a few educational events tossed in as well. If you know of other must-attend events, please add them […]
Save resources & money with Better World Telecom
A telecom that does good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Until I met Salem Kimble (who earlier covered GoingGreen for Socialbrite), I had never heard of BetterWorld Telecom. With a tagline of “Change the world. One call at a time,” they’re a socially conscious telecom provider for nonprofits and mission-driven businesses that donates 3 percent […]
How individuals make a real difference
Our colleague Beth Kanter, author of Beth’s Blog, turns 53 years young today. The past year has been a momentous one for Beth, who pulled up roots and moved with her family from Boston to the Bay Area, rented a house, co-authored a book, became a visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation — I don’t […]
Mashable & our favorite posts of the year
Welcome to all the visitors from Mashable! We were thrilled to be featured in Melissa Rowley‘s article, 4 Social Good Trends of 2009. For first-timers, we thought now would be a good time to highlight some of our favorite posts on Socialbrite since our launch earlier this year: Some of our favorite causes • Tweet […]
Social Media Week comes to six cities Feb. 1
Rachel Sklar, Rachelle Hruska and Anastasia Liapis at last February’s Social Media Week. SF, London, Berlin to be part of wide-ranging global teach-in Spent an hour on a conference call this morning where it was announced that Social Media Week, inaugurated last February in New York, will expand to include San Francisco, London, Berlin, Toronto […]