After nearly four years, we are winding down the Policy Leadership Initiative. The initiative emerged from a tension I had experienced over more than a decade working on digital policy in Brussels: those most impacted by tech-facilitated ha…
We're thrilled to announce the members of our latest Policy Leadership Cohort. This group brings together a diverse set of policy practitioners working across the fields of digital justice, trans rights, the open source community, sex worke…
Funders on Fundraising is a series of candid interviews with funders—not just about their portfolios or program strategies, but about how fundraising actually works. We talk about what builds trust, what backfires, how people say yes, and w…
It's our 22nd Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2025 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, 19-21 November 2025, to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively en…
In parallel with our in-person Dev Summit on 19-21 November, we will host a virtual ephemeral Dev Summit session on Thursday 13 November 2025, designed for those who are not able to join in person, as well as folks who want to participate i…
Most fundraising is misunderstood. It’s treated as performance—polished and polite, built around the idea that merit rises and money follows. Tuesday, 14 October 2025 15:00–17:00 CET | Online As political momentum around Artificial Intellig…
After a short summer pause, the AI Openness & Equity Policy Leadership Cohort reconvened for its final session, featuring Maximilian Gahntz from Mozilla. Together, we unpacked the shifting dynamics of AI policy in the European Union, where
Our second AI Openness & Equity Policy Leadership cohort session centered around understanding the intention, value, and suitability of open source when applied to AI. Our discussions tackled a foundational question: What does “openness” me…
In response to the ways in which technology continues to have profound impacts on society, democracy, and the planet, the increasing power and influence of Big Tech, and the wave of regulations in the EU and beyond, we wanted to address the…
In 2023, we launched the Policy Leadership Initiative to advance equitable digital policy by elevating underrepresented voices in policy-making arenas. We aimed to do this by supporting, educating, and empowering diverse leadership by offer…
Our inaugural Digital Policy Leadership Summit took place in Brussels 15-16 February. The event was both inspiring and affirming, and served as a springboard to accelerate the Policy Leadership program we will prototype with this emergent c…
(Now available as a PDF Download) Many of us are sheltering-in-place, practicing social solidarity by physically distancing, and shifting to majority online work and organizing in midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. For many folks tha…