There are numerous nonprofits I am working with in the next few months that could use the assistance of social media savvy users for tweets, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ sharing. The CSAAC.org has asked for my help as the social media chair for the annual gala fundraiser. I need volunteers to tweet now and up to the night of the event to get donations through Twitter. They are also looking for a mobile app to accept donations so people can tweet a number to make donations. Current options they have reviewed cost more than their budget can allow for a nonprofit. If interested in donating tweets to help me on the social media side from now through Nov 11th, please contact me on @Nakeva.

I will also be working with @PixelProject for a photography fundraiser locally but need photographers from everywhere to join in and participate in their local town. Take a portrait session, charge a discounted fee and at minimum, donate $10 to Pixel Project and/or a local nonprofit of the same type. Let me know on @Nakeva if interested.

Also working with UNHCR and the #BlueKey project. A $5 purchase of a blue key pendant and an option to join the ranks of the #BlueKey Champions would be awesome! They need blog posts, videos, tweets etc. using the hashtag. Purchases are small donations and will go to their programs helping refugees. There is a sign up and I can get anyone started. Again contact me on @Nakeva.

Social media for social good is great when backed by an enthusastic and engaged community. Your help and suggestions are welcome!

Kyle Daley: America Needs Its Very Own Tron - Do Not Track Legislation Needed via San Diego Union Tribune

EVERY problem listed on this page has a root cause and that is the "evil" selfish corporation. 

FOUNDUPS® is the World's first Open Corp™ and by December 2015 we aim to have launched 100K+ Open Corps using O!F. What is an Open Corp™ or "People's Corp?" 

• 100% real time financially transparent to stakeholder (NO corporation currently is.; not even NGOs or NPOs... why?)
• Invests 20%-80% into launching NEW startups (foundups) that become Open Corps (this removes the need for 1%ers or institutional investors. VC and angels)
• ISO 26000 responsible - CEO responsible meeting the ISO guidelines set forth and accountable to the Greater Stakeholders
• Employee owned - The Trustee and Employees are known as the Lesser Stakeholders. Trustees put forth changes and lesser stakeholders approve amendments and changes to the corporate charters. CEO nominated by Chair and approved by Trustees. Tustees are nominated by lesser stakeholders once every 5 years. 
• CEO Vote of confidence - Once every 5 years CEO & Chairman must win the vote of confidence from its Greater stakeholders. ANYONE impacted by the open corp is a greater stakeholder. 

FOUNDUPS® has a complete framework called the Open !ncubator Framework (O!F) for launching ideas into startups. O!F is highly scalable 2 Open Corps, will spawn 4,  that yeild 8, 16...,  32..., 64..., 128..., 256..., 512..., 1024..., 2048..., etc, Open Corp's will spread extremely rapidly and O!F is open to anyone and free. 

Check us out on Foundup.org Please email JOIN@foundups.org for information how you can join. 

Sincerely, 

FOUNDUPS® Michael J. Trout, CEO

Global leaders come and go in ever shorter cycles. UK in 1900, Rome in 1500, Persia 600, Greece in 200 BC, Egypt in 1,000 B.C. A few typical characteristics:

1) Our world grows in complexity - the respective governments didn't

2) Leadership was reached through innovation - But it slows down and stopped because saturated politicians and business owners control the speed of innovation.

3) The key support systems of a thriving society include Education, Investment in Innovation, Leading transportation systems (nowdays including data) and a culture of competitiveness.

The US leadership began to vanish away with the beginning of the Bush era, investing over Trillion dollar into wars. It is lost today to central Europe and Australia.

Rebuilding America may not be possible as it may be just the cyles of societies. But if we don't try - we never know.

What need to be done?
* Creating a comprehensive program that does not "overthrow" a government or "fight" the establishment but involve the larger part of the society and work WITH government and established capitalists.

* Rethink the key necessities of leadership, success and progress on a macro economic level - definig reachable goals for a 25 year period.

* Winning influential leaders, thinker, business people, engineers, who volunteer to "rebuild america" despite the fact they are terribly busy, but understand that they are needed to get this society back on track.

Axel
http://xeeme.com/AxelS

I'm a nonprofit advocacy guy -- PIRG, Sierra Club. There's a huge need for tools that small to medium sized nonprofits can use to help them with backend operations. Eg, member databases -- Salsa et al are very expensive and deployment costs are high for small group. Or financial mangement -- Quickbooks is also expensive. Even basic IT tasks. 

There's a lot of activity around nonprofit software and tech tools. It seems focused on how to use technology to *add* to what nonprofits are doing, which is great. There is an equal or greater need for tools to help nonprofits make their core business operations more efficient and robust, and a need to educate staffers on the tools that already exist. How many nonprofit people know about GIMP? 

Would be great to see a few wikibills promoted and a few policy drives in California, with support from our elected officials:

http://lexpop.org