Worlds Touch partner Gilda Martinez went to a conference in Boston on funding technology last week. Great networking opportunity, and some insight into the tech version of her already well-developed nonprofit fund raising background. We've been engaged in this running discussion about whether we need to be looking for grants as a technology component of larger projects (her point) or whether there are donors out there willing to fund grants for eRiding or circuit riding projects in and of themselves (my point.) The conference consensus supported Gilda's view. Funders really want to support poor people and technology advice often seems like an add-on to them, not direct service. As usual, Gilda's experience and expertise has proven right on. We're lucky to have her!
Want to help Worlds Touch? Attend a conference and write about it.
Sometimes, the best kind of help you can give to an organization is the gift of your time. Attending conferences that I don't have time for or am not geographically or financially able to attend is one way to help Worlds Touch. I have a big pile of Worlds Touch brochures I had printed in Nepal, and anybody who goes to a conference, a tech club meeting, a dinner party where somebody who might be interested in Worlds Touch will be present-- let me know and I'll slip a few brochures in the mail to you.
Web Site news
In other Worlds Touch news, son Raphael is working diligently on an update to the Worlds Touch web site. We were doing a much more complicated version just before I left for Nepal, and being the Aspie the boy is, out of sight, out of mind...and the web site has remained in a kind of lamentable shambles since. But we're on it! I just need to re-do the donations page...you know...the place where anybody inclined to invest in bridging the digital divide in developing countries, in the power of computer technology to make social justice and poverty elimination a reality, can contribute.
We've got a target date of October 28, this Friday, to have the streamlined and updated site up and running. I'll keep you posted here.
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