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Celebrating Women in Tech: An Interview with Qgiv’s Female Leaders

Qgiv

Jennifer: I was doing marketing for a theme park in 2008 and due to a series of unfortunate events I found myself without a job in 2009 (anyone else?). On top of that our CEO, Todd, is a phenomenal mentor and has never made me feel like being a female has anything to do with my ability to lead.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

The original version of Movements.org was founded in 2008 by then-U.S. It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time. Keyes is a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast and has written op-eds for The New York Times , The Washington Post , Al Jazeera , and many other media outlets.

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Actionable Insights for Managing Gen Z in the Nonprofit Workplace

Blackbaud

I was laid off during the economic crisis in 2008 and had to rebuild what little career traction Id had prior to the crash. Media think pieces about Gen Z and their perceived failings abound, as they did when I was a 20-something, and likewise for the generation before mine.