For those not in Minnesota, please consider supporting your local immigrant communities, ICE watch efforts, and mutual aid funds.
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For those not in Minnesota, please consider supporting your local immigrant communities, ICE watch efforts, and mutual aid funds.
Joining the official protest march in downtown Minneapolis: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblet...
Supporting immigrant-owned and other local businesses affected by ICE’s invasion, including those closing on Friday — running list here: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
We’re encouraging our employees, clients, and partners to participate in resistance and mutual aid, including:
* Donating to, volunteering with, and amplifying the organizations listed here: www.standwithminnesota.com
Software for Good is joining local businesses in closing on Friday, the 23rd, in solidarity with these organizations, striking workers, and everyone affected by ICE’s actions in Minnesota and beyond.
Community, labor, and faith groups have called for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, January 23 — “no work, no school, no shopping” to send the message “ICE Out of Minnesota.”
In Minnesota, where most of our team is based, we’re directly affected — when our kids’ schools and daycares are closed, when we watch out for ICE in our neighborhoods, and when we and our loved ones live in fear of racial profiling and retaliation. This is not right and we can’t stay quiet.
Like you, our team has been hurting this month. We’re heartbroken by the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent. We’re outraged by ICE’s aggressive abductions of our neighbors and its intentional campaign of terror.
How's your Spyware knowledge? Introducing Elina Castillo Jiménez! Her workshop "Unlearning Surveillance: Power, Protection, and the Spyware We Carry" explores the personal and political cost of surveillance.
Join us, register now: www.tciamn.org/d4pg
#D4PG #Datajustice #AccesstoSurveillance
Join us in interrogating the use of AI in education and digital futures. Register now for D4PG and choose from a variety of pricing options, including a student discount, a day pass, or paying $299 for the full D4 experience: www.tciamn.org/d4pg
#D4PG #AI #AIEthics #CommunityConverations #Education
Is your nonprofit collecting data that could put communities at risk?
Learn practical data minimization strategies in our two-part Digital Resilience webinar.
55 minutes per session, part 1 on June 3: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#NonprofitTech
Photo of plants growing through a crack in rocks, with text: Protecting Essential Services in Challenging Times.
What happens to your nonprofit's mission if your primary tech platform changes policies overnight?
Join our bite-sized webinar series (55 min each) to learn how to build platform independence. Part 1 coming up on June 3: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #DigitalResilience
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation is stepping up with a new "Fortify Grants" program.
"Grants from the MN Forward Pooled Fund will emphasize efforts created and led by communities impacted by the short- and long-term effects brought on by federal shifts."
spmcf.org/nonprofits/g...
Trump signing executive order
DEVELOPING: There is chatter coming out of the White House that as early as next week Donald Trump may issue as many as 5 Executive Orders targeting US-based nonprofits and civil society organizations.
Our Digital Resilience Toolkit is getting fantastic feedback. If you’re a foundation or large nonprofit donor and haven’t yet considered how to protect the investments you’ve made, give this a read. We can help! softwareforgood.com/digital-resi...
Is anyone aware of any effort to bring together progressive technologists for activism?
If you are a fundraiser, nonprofit executive, or help nonprofits, I'd love your input on a 6-question survey that should take 2 minutes or less. forms.gle/145bz65ikECZ...
Hey friends. We're building a new product to help nonprofits be more efficient in their fundraising efforts. I'm doing some product research and seeking help to shape our value prop.
We have patients today in need of extra funding to keep their appointments:
Gap 1: $3500
Gap 2: $1200
Gal 3: $1500
www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund
Digital Resilience: Protecting Essential Services in Challenging Times
softwareforgood.com/digital-resi...
Job Post!
We're looking for a few contractors to help on some new projects:
* Contract Native Mobile Developers
* Front End Developers
softwareforgood.com/job-post-con...
softwareforgood.com/job-post-con...
Come work with us!
Job Post!
We're looking for a few contractors to help on some new projects:
* Contract Native Mobile Developers
* Front End Developers
softwareforgood.com/job-post-con...
softwareforgood.com/job-post-con...
Come work with us!
VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.
One of the biggest challenges we have @softwareforgood.com is trying to quantify how "For Good" our clients are. We've tried to measure "impact" and "cost to deliver impact," but it's almost impossible. We've considered the sector and the number of people served, whether it is life-changing or not.
Software for Good CTO @chelbs.bsky.social is keeping a list of Ethical AI researchers and advocates. Please send recommendations! bsky.app/profile/chel...
We were honored to have the opportunity.
“To the team at Software for Good, that built the software programming, thank you all.”
— Minnesota Governor Tim Walz thanking the partners behind the COVID-19 Housing Assistance Program launch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNK1...
"A community grounded in love is a community that will stand."
"This must be our compass as we set out to build community. Leading with love means seeing love as a virtue to cultivate in ourselves, to encourage in our families, to infuse in our workplaces, schools, and halls of government, to insist on in our leaders, and to shape our public conversation."
"Nothing could be further from the truth. The sacrifices and strength that love enables are the foundation on which we build our lives. We are at our best not when we fear but when we love, not when we turn away but when we turn toward one another."