Lunch for Social Action Platforms

An invite-only opportunity for social action platforms in the Bay Area to connect with each other and the Social Actions team.


Agenda

* Brief introductions

* Presentation of Social Actions and progress made toward developing an open philanthropic web, including the formal launch of the "open actions" micro-format for publishing and sharing opportunities to make a difference.

* Facilitated discussion about the trends and challenges facing online philanthropic communities.



Confirmed attendees:

Platform partners

George Polisner, Alonovo
Nick Jankel, Beyond Zero
Emily Logan, Care2
Ben Rattray, Change.org
Jacob Colker, The Extraordinaries
Kern Beare, Global Mindshift
Anthony Krumeich, Global Mindshift
Shari Ilsen, Great Nonprofits
Llyod Nimitz, HelpArgentina
Kara Montermoso, Idealist
Jason Ricci, SproutBuilder
Ross Chapman, Sustainable Websites
Seth Thompson, VolunteerMatch
Leslie Forman, Wokai
Ginger Thomson, YouthNoise

Foundations

Kari Dunn Saratovsky, The Case Foundation
Richard Rathbun, Foundation for Global Community
Steve Wright, Salesforce.com Foundation

Media

Allison Domicone, Creative Commons
Sundeep Ahuja, Awareness2Action
Katie Kennan, Ode Magazine
JD Lasica, OurMedia.org
Lucy Bernholz, Philanthropy 2173
Jennie Frohman, TechSoup Global
Justin Whitney, Film Producer



RSVP required.

To request an invitation please email peter@socialactions.com, cc christine@socialactions.com.



Social Actions is an award-winning nonprofit initiative closing in on its first year of operations. Our mission is to connect people with opportunities to take action in an effort to increase the scope and impact of the citizen sector. Towards that end we develop technology that helps individuals find and participate in the campaigns listed on social action platforms.

Social Actions has developed a search interface and open API that aggregates actionable opportunities from over 30 social action platforms including DonorsChoose.org, Kiva, Idealist, and Change.org. To demonstrate the potential of the open API, Social Actions recently launched a web application that automatically scans the content of the web page on which it appears, identifies the top three keywords for that page, searches for related campaigns across the social action platforms, and automatically recommends opportunities to take action related to the content of the site.

Social Actions was selected as a 2008 Stockholm Challenge finalist, won two prizes at this year’s NetSquared conference, and has been mentioned in several leading news media including PBS Online, The San Francisco Chronicle Online, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, and TechCrunch.

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