We’re building a tool kit together – find and share tips for launching your idea, growing your organization, finding funding, and using social media.

Your first stop should be the Changemakers Support and Resources Group where anyone can post tips, ask questions, and find answers.

Check out these online fundraising tips from  Echoditto, a leading communications firm serving non-profits (including Ashoka!).

Ken Banks jokingly and lovingly calls SMS technology "software with an attention deficit disorder." He’s referring to Short Message Service – also known as text messaging -- and he knows it’s no joke that SMS can help make social happen quickly, profoundly, and in very hard-to access locations.

What started as a not-so-well-attended tweetup in Los Angeles in December 2009, only a few months later turned into a networker’s dream event of more than 700 social entrepreneurs, nonprofits and socially responsible businesses at the 2010 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference.  

A community movement that serves four of Louisville, Kentucky's most distressed inner-city neighborhoods has been extraordinarily successful in linking its members to lasting employment despite the harsh economic downturn. How does The Making Connections Network—known as the Network—do it?

It has found a unique way of applying social media theory to community organizing to help more than 1000 of its members find jobs, including many with the city's biggest employers, Norton Healthcare and United Parcel Service (UPS). More important, Network members are keeping their jobs.