Nonprofit News

Once upon a time in Silicon Valley, way back in 1995, I sat in a conference room at Apple Computer headquarters with a small group of key nonprofit representatives, the head of Apple’s community relations department, and two co-founders of a new nonprofit organization called Impact Online, Cindy Shove and Steve Glikbarg.

Cindy, Steve and I had met online — then face-to-face — just a few months earlier, via the soc.org.nonprofit newsgroup. We had become fast friends, as we all believed the importance of Internet and other computer technologies would continue to grow exponentially over the next few months and that it was imperative that nonprofit organizations make a commitment to get online and integrate new technology use into their organization’s work. We were in that conference room to evangelize to key sector leaders, and to talk about how some agencies were already tapping into the technology potential.

A couple of people rolled their eyes as we spoke. Some had only recently gotten … [Continue reading...]