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CELEBRITY PHILANTHROPY ADVISOR BECOMES REGULAR GUEST CONTRIBUTOR TO THE MICHAEL CHATMAN GIVING SHOW   **Portfolio Includes NBA Stars Dwayne Wade, Kobe Bryant & Luol Deng Halleemah Nash is an entrepreneur, philanthropy professional, and youth advocate. Her journey from the streets of Compton, California to Howard University is what inspired her plight to reach back from where she came and make a difference by helping others understand, in her words, "it's not about your location but about your destination."  

Membership organization of nonprofits, foundations, and corporate philanthropy programs. They provide a lot of beneficial information and we use a lot of their works in our grantmaking classes at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy.

The GVSU "Johnson Center for Philanthropy" has a posterous account one can subscribe to follow.

The U.S. isn't the only giving nation in North America.

Another way HP is making a difference by helping NPOs

"Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, announcing tonight that he is joining forces with a nonprofit technology group to start ConvergeUS, a charity that sees to combat social problems with new technology."

The Johnson Center at Grand Valley State University publishers a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal on philanthropy. Link is to a free trial of an online edition of the journal.

Modernizing the 990-PF to Advance the Accountability and Performance of Foundations: Part 2 (posted 03/21/2011 to website) (John Craig is executive vice-president and COO of The Commonwealth Fund. Craig is chair of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, and a former chair of The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF). He serves on the boards of the TIFF Education Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, the International Women's Health Coalition, and the National Center for Law and Philanthropy, and on the investment committee of the Social Science Research Council.)

Bi-weekly newspaper of the nonprofit world. The website offers a searchable archive of articles about issues and trends in the nonprofit sector, as well as a listing of grants.

These topic seem are important on how its educated us about what technology does to the nonprofit or government. some of the things they Author point out were impactful, innovation, and tranformative all these words were used for the change a technolgy could do to the alter the nonprofit or government programs. i think that it useful to have these technology that support our ideas about negative impact that could damage nonprofit work in some ways.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is putting up 2 million to a company which will make a facebook app that supports college students. It aims to provide a unity among students which can bolster success through social networking.

This article describes how one organization saved thousands on their technology budget by utilizing free services, using video conferences, working from home, and combining services (to name a few).

Digital Mapping helps many in relief work.