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Refocus tech talent to help people rather than maximize profits – The Mercury News, March 20, 2024
Silicon Valley layoffs go from bad to worse, and the nonprofit sector is waking up to new opportunities to attract tech talent.
Generative AI Is All About the Money, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Jan. 25, 2024
I hope you join me and other nonprofit technologists in helping to see that AI gets applied ethically for maximum positive social impact.
Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Social Change: A Conversation with Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Tech Matters – The Business of Giving podcast, June 16, 2023
Denver Frederick and Jim Fruchterman discuss how Tech Matters helps non-technical social change leaders build tech solutions to problems.
5 bad tech ideas that development organizations just keep trying – Devex, May 24, 2023
Few social good leaders are tech gurus. Knowing about past mistakes is one of the best ways of avoiding future ones.
Jim Fruchterman, Founder and CEO, Tech Matters: Going for maximum impact, not maximum profit – Philanthropy News Digest, May 17, 2023
The strategic tech nonprofit works globally in collaboration with local partners and donor-investors to launch sustainable tech-for-good social enterprises.
What is Servant Leadership? Jim Fruchterman, Tech Matters – Skoll Foundation, May 2023
How Silicon Valley tech companies can help vulnerable communities protect and control their data to advocate for the society they want to build.
Tech Matters Launches as Independent Tech-for-Good Nonprofit – News Release
Tech Matters, a tech-for-good organization focused on bringing the power of tech to social change leaders, is now a new independent nonprofit
Empowering Sexual Violence Survivors (with exciting technology behind the scenes)
Callisto launched a new, more survivor-centric version of its platform just in the last eighteen months, and it’s working!
Open Source Software for the Modern Nonprofit
The modern nonprofit runs on software. The choice of which software can be critical in meeting mission goals.