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Community Funded Reporting

By On June 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This week Ruby and I went to two conferences in Minneapolis. The first one done in Open Space / Unconference style was New Pamphleteers/New Reporters:Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs at the University of Minnesota. (What a long name huh?)

One of the best ideas I heard this week was [...]

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Local governments withhold public access TV funds

By On May 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Local governments withhold public access TV funds. Get the story from this Independent Weekly blog post by Fiona Morgan called Legislature to consider future of public TV channels.

Both Chapel Hill and Orange County received money for Chapel Hill channel 8, on which The People’s Channel broadcasts.

Yet neither government has passed [...]

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Orange Networking is a real 501c3

By On September 28, 2007 · 2 Comments

Last night I opened an envelope from the IRS. In it was Orange Networking’s acceptance letter giving the organization official tax exempt status. Orange Networking is now a real 501(c)(3) organization! YEAH!

Orange Networking (ON) is a non-profit organization working to foster equal access to the Internet so that all people may benefit from [...]

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$599 Dell laptop with Ubuntu

By On May 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Yep. A pretty dang good deal. Dell laptop with Ubuntu for sale. I think this is a wonderful deal for non-profits. There is little reason left now for NGOs to be shackled to Microsoft products.

Hat tip to Justin.

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Help Teach Someone to Read or get their GED

By On February 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Might you be interested in helping someone learn how to read? If so please contact Yashna Padamsee at the Durham Literacy Center ASAP. yashna (at) durhamliteracy (dot) org More info bellow.

I worked in AmeriCorp for one year at the Durham Literacy Center. Its a serious organization that’s been working very hard [...]

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Check out Change.org

By On February 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Non-profit techies have been dreaming of ways to use new web 2.0 stuff to help good causes. We’re always suggesting people use Digg, Facebook, De.licio.us, Flickr, and YouTube for positive social change work. Problem is they are all separate services with communities that aren’t focused on non-profit missions. What would happen if we mashed all [...]

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