January 26, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Nonprofit Technology Conference, which drew nearly 800 charity technology officials, consultants, and companies last year, will take place March 22-24 in Seattle. The meeting is organized by the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, in San Francisco, with financial help from Network for Good and United Way of America.
In addition to sessions on such topics as online fund raising and technology planning, several sessions will focus on technology issues for specific types of charities. Among the topics covered in the specialized sessions: collaborating effectively during disaster response, warehouse and distribution software, and technology for health organizations.
Speakers include Guy Kawasaki, a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture-capital company, and formerly an executive at Apple Computer; and Trish Millines Dziko, co-founder of the Technology Access Foundation, which provides technology and life-skills training to minority students in Seattle.
Following the conference, Penguin Day Seattle, on March 25, will bring together charity technology employees, consultants, and software developers to discuss the potential — and the challenges — of using and developing open-source software.
The meeting is organized by Aspiration, an Amherst, Mass., nonprofit organization that seeks to connect charities to good-quality, low-cost tools that help them do their work, and PICnet, a consulting company in Washington.
For more information about the Nonprofit Technology Conference: Go to http://www.nten.org/ntc.
For more information about Penguin Day Seattle: Go to http://www.penguinday.org.
