Curry Student Center 344 (3rd Floor)
Traditional donor and customer relationship management systems do a very good job of tracking contact info, gifts, and basic interaction with constituents. However, groups that engage in community organizing need to track types of interactions that are not easily captured by existing systems. The purpose of this workshop is to envision how we might track organizing work -- and the leadership development of constituents -- much more effectively. Some new features (of ODB 2.0) will be shown, and others will be brainstormed by participants.
About the presenter: Rich Cowan, OC founder, is Director of the ODB project. Rich has two degrees in computer science from M.I.T and built OC over a six year period into an group that assists hundreds of social change nonprofits. He has worked as academic computer support specialist, a database consultant, an adjunct faculty member, a newspaper editor, and as a nonprofit founder. Prior to founding Organizers' Collaborative, Rich started the Center for Campus Organizing making extensive use of the Internet to network progressive students and faculty. Rich has written articles for Responsive Philanthropy, Techsoup.org, and speaks frequently at conferences on the intersection of technology and social change.
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