NetWits

JULY 14, 2011

Community Builder and Technology Evangelist, CommunityConnective | Follow @HeidiEKMassey. Digital Content Services Manager, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago | Follow @steveheye. 1 – Chris Tuttle. Senior Internet Solutions Consultant, Blackbaud | Follow @christuttle. 2 – Heidi Massey. 2 – Melody Ann Ross.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Amazon has removed two of its Hub lockers from parks in Chicago after public outcry over blocked sidewalks, Block Club Chicago writes. According to Amazon: We value the community’s feedback and took immediate action to respond to these concerns, working with the Chicago Park District to remove the Amazon Locker.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

However, this year—as hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and anti-Asian COVID-19 rhetoric spike—I find myself pleading that these words stay true for my family and community. . I was born and raised in suburban Chicago to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. Photo Credit: Aaron Molo.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. reported for “informal helping.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

When mHub opened its doors in Chicago seven years ago, the vision was to create a traditional incubator for people making things. Now, it is moving into a newly acquired , freshly refurbished space in a Chicago opportunity zone to help it incubate, accelerate and support more startups that can have a positive impact on humanity.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Description : In this month’s edition of Social Good, Allison Fine, the host, interviews Amy Sample Ward, community development manager at TechSoup Global, and Estrella Rosenberg, founder and executive director of Big Love Little Hearts in Chicago and author of the blog Adventures in Philanthropy. Sample Ward and Ms.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is the secret to successful grant writing?” Help other nonprofits grow by sharing your knowledge and insights with a chance to be featured in the next Ask the Blue Avocado Community results. Know your prospective funder in depth! A missed comma will be forgiven, I promise!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data. The idea is to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofits while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open-source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. The open source community was pivotal to our success thus far,” said Vasilyev, in a statement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For more than a decade, Nadine has worked at the intersection of policy and media in major markets including New York, Chicago and Washington, DC. She was the Assistant Director of Communications at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and then head of media for Foreign Affairs magazine in New York.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park , seeks to build out the future of cutting-edge quantum computing on the site of a former steel plant site in Chicago. Bristol has a reputation for climate action and community support for renewables; this city-scale move shows that it is raising its own bar.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2013

By Andrew Means, YMCA of Metro Chicago The question of how nonprofits use data is swirling around professional organizations throughout the sector. NTEN''s Communities of Impact recently conducted a small survey (n=69) of nonprofit professionals asking how their organizations are engaging with data. Everyone is talking about data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2014

Thanks to a partnership with the Public Interest Registry , Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good was able to report live from the Cause Marketing Forum (Storified) last week in Chicago, IL. TOMS has partnered with over 100 nonprofits to distribute their shoes to communities worldwide. 17 Retweets, 15 Favorites.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

I''m so excited to officially welcome Julia Smith as NTEN''s new Community Development Manager! Julia began working with NTEN on the Communities of Impact (CoI) project earlier this year, and now we''re thrilled to have her on the NTEN staff! Julia is no stranger to the nonprofit technology community.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was true even before the pandemic, but now—with nearly every aspect of our lives moved online in some way—the expectations of what a mission-driven organization can and must do to connect and engage with its community have changed. Personalization to drive community participation. Removing barriers to community engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath. #thankful4home: A Lesson in Project Based Learning & Gratitude guest post by Lisa Colton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2009

The topic was the role that artists can play in shaping communities with particular focus on plans for 9/11, a new National Day of Service and Remembrance. The idea is to find ways that artists can help spread the message of service and also highlight the service work that artists already perform in communities nationwide. Take videos.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

He was also the principal author of a recent report you may have heard of: “ Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of a Changing Climate ,” which was released by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in May 2014, calling on the United States government to integrate climate change adaptation into its global food security strategy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

The Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is hosting its 12th annual SEA Summit in Chicago. The SEA has extended a $50 discount off Summit registration to the NTEN community – and if you register now through September 15th, you will save an additional $100 during advanced registration. Just use discount code “$50OFF” during registration !

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Chicago attorney Jay Edelson sued Facebook in Cook County Circuit Court back in 2015, alleging that the platform’s use of facial recognition tagging was not allowed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. It’s a big deal,” Edelson told The Chicago Tribune. “It

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

CARPLS Legal Aid is the largest provider of free legal services in Chicago, and we believe no one should have to deal with their legal issue alone. However, access to justice for people with low and moderate incomes has been a long-standing issue facing vulnerable communities. These issues will continue to pile up as moratoriums end.

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Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Latinx community is often missing from philanthropic discussionsboth about donors and about nonprofit organizations. Latinx community had the equivalent of a $3.6 Meanwhile, thousands of small and midsize Latinx-focused nonprofits are serving our communitiesfrom a womens shelter in Chicago to a scholarship program in Tucson.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Microcredit processes with mobile phones worked because of effective microfinance organizations…" YMCA of Metro Chicago Launches Facebook « Chicago YMCA's IT Space – Great resource from Steve Heye, thanks for sharing your facebook manual! "How

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

. —– Scott Anderson is the Director of Communications for DSI, the developer of ClientTrack. He earned his PhD in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in community health, adolescent residential treatment, and a faith-based organization. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many of you, especially those in greater Chicago, may be familiar with the Data Analysts for Social Good group that Andrew Means founded in May 2012. Earlier that week, community member Heidi Massey (who runs Chicago’s 501 Tech Club monthly meetup , where Andrew has been a featured speaker) learned about the waiting list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As someone who lives in Chicago, I was very interested in this topic. By creating applications utilizing this data, it becomes more useful to the community. Heidi Massey is Chief Connector at Community Connective and lives at the juncture of nonprofits and technology.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Comcast is launching a program to provide free Wi-Fi in community centers as part of an effort to improve internet access for students in low-income areas, the company said Thursday. Other community centers in Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC will also be included. Photo: Comcast.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

I put out on Twitter that I was looking for someone to help me redesign the site and connected with Matt Chevy : I’m excited to be working with Amy and it’s clear that she’s established an outstanding community here. Tags: collaboration issues blog collaboation community design redesign strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 12, 2010

Jean Russell, Thrivable.org – Chicago, IL, USA. Our contributors are from widely different fields – from social entrepreneurship to philanthropy, from deep tech space to community activism, from neuroscience to labor and economic history, from social network analysis to storytelling. Thank you for viewing this book.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Data to pinpoint needs in specific communities Unfortunately, government survey data does not accurately represent “hard-to-count” at-risk populations who are less likely to speak English or to trust the government—which includes many of the people nonprofits like CASL serve. For example, aggregated data from the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2011

On June 29, I’ll be participating at conference in San Francisco called Social Media for Nonprofits that launches a seven-city conference event focusing on answering the question: “How can resource-strapped community-based organizations seize the opportunities presented by this new landscape?&#.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Chicago Museum of Industry Community Data Leadership Mark Mathyer nptech nten Strategy Fundraising' " After looking at past data and finding new ways to talk about membership, the museum was able to grow its membership base and encourage donors to give more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

T his was developed with the input of folks who might be direct beneficiaries of this program and that community was directly impactful in designing and developing this proposal,” Smith Ellis told TechCrunch. “We Murphy, said the initiative came after conversations with Black and Latinx business investors. “T

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. The most recent startup, Pyxis Oncology , was spun out of the University of Chicago.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

We are all so excited that Julia Smith has found a new opportunity to advance her career that allows her to work offline, in a real office, with other humans in Chicago. We are, of course, sad that it means the NTEN office hasn’t moved to Chicago to be with her. Julia’s patience, thoughtfulness, and focus on community are unparalleled.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2014

Deena believes in digital equity and inclusion and ways tech can drive economic development in more marginalized communities. She has been featured in the following publications: Essence Magazine, Black Enterprise, Ebony Magazine, Deliver magazine, Neurology Now, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and Working Mother Magazine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. In February, several national and Chicago-based organizations banded together to support early-stage Black and Latinx tech entrepreneurs through a new program dubbed TechRise. Disclosure: Verizon is TechCrunch’s parent company).

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