nonprofit

Preview: Hacking the Hackathon for the Social & Civic Good

Claire Dunn is a digital producer at Spredfast, helping organizations build meaningful relationships with their audiences through social media engagement. She helped conceptualize and develop the first ATX Hack for Change event and then served as lead organizer in the hackathon’s second year. Dunn has spent more than seven years in the tech and higher education industries […]

Preview: Nonprofit Crowdfunding Bill of Rights

After last year’s success creating a crowdfunding bill of rights for donors, David Neff, digital engagement strategist, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and co-panelist Miriam Kagan, senior principal, Kimbia, return to SXSW Interactive this year to create a crowdfunding bill of rights for nonprofits. While last year’s panel focused on the rights of the people who donate to […]

Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change

Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, David Neff, Holly Ross, Kari Saratovsky all work for various nonprofit organizations that have an overall goal of fostering social change for social good.  The panelists “crowd sourced” different people to find out exactly how nonprofit organizations are using social media.  Kanter described crowd sourcing as “Getting ideas, content or […]

Preview: Convio at South By

With SXSWi just around the corner, it’s great to get a little insight on what you can expect to see. Convio, a company that specializes in providing marketing services and strategies for NonProfits is headquartered here in Austin and will be an active participant in next week’s events. This is Convio’s first year as an […]