2018 Fresno Agenda

The following is the working agenda for the California Nonprofit Technology Festival in Fresno on June 20 - 21, 2018.

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Afternoon: Travel Day

Out-of-town participants start to arrive

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

9:00 AM – Welcome and Opening Circle

The event will start with introductions and welcomes, an overview of the agenda and guidelines, and announcements.

9:45 AM – Perspectives from Around the State

Participants engaged in story-sharing and conversations about work they are doing in their various communities and movements.

• Amplifying community stories through youth-led journalism in Eastern Coachella Valley - Amber
• Amplifying community stories through youth-led journalism in Fresno - Kody
• Campaign organizing with women and girls in Visalia - Jasmine
• Supporting youth-led digital media in Sacramento - Isaac
• Organizing against gentrification and displacement in Santa Ana - Joesé
• Advocating for active mobility in South LA - Adé
• What is takes to run a career development center like the NEST - Yethzell
• Supporting 200 organizations that provide citizenship services in the US - Sarah
• What it’s like to serve content creators - Jane
• What its like to organizing with Latina reproductive justice leaders across the state - Jazmyn and Christina
• Organizing for Environmental Justice in the Central Valley - Cesar

11:00 AM – Looking at the Big Picture

• Data Stewardship - Ken
• Online comms 101 - Evelyn
• Digital Security 101 - Lisa
• Popular education praxis - Jasmine
• The role of content in achieving your mission - Jane
• Website development 101 - Bill
• Capacity building and leadership development - Misty
• Organizing with youth - Alhelí
• Culture shift - Christina

12:30 PM – Lunch

Participants will be encouraged to sit with friends they have not yet met!

1:30 PM – Speed Geeking

Participants presented and shared work they are doing in their various regions and fields, in a fast-paced collaborative format.

• Universe of tech - Yesenia
• Setting up air monitor networks - Gus
• Creative Commons demo - Jane
• Creating a documentary film - Bryan
• Illustration - Ruben
• Radio show/podcast 101 - Joese
• Crowdsourcing art for fundraising - Niria
• Linux in a nonprofit context - Ray
• Data for story telling - Jen
• Caravan mobile apps - Tiffany

2:45 PM – Collaborative Working Sessions

• Modeling for failure in tech - Gunner
• Coordinating your communications channels for higher impact - Evelyn
• How to prepare and support folks in adopting new tools and practices - Lisa
• How we utilize technology and digital storytelling in our largely farmworker, rural community - Amber and Bryan
• A conversation about online content sharing with Creative Commons - Jane Park
• Using tech for self expression and creativity - Digital NEST youth
• Developing strategic fundraising campaigns - Niria
• How to write a profile - Gabby and Johnsen
• Technology capacity building - Misty

5:00 PM – Adjourn Day 1

Participants are welcome to stay after and ask additional questions.

5:30 PM – Post-Event Hang Out

Dinner at Brahma Bull

Thursday, June 21, 2018

9:15 AM – Collaborative Working Sessions

• Organizational security - Ken
• Project management for collaboration - Lisa
• How to adopt and use open source tools - Ray
• Inclusive and intersectional technology - Abel
• Wordpress help - Bill
• Practices for organizing your digital life - Thomas
• Graphic design tools/basics - Ruben
• How to build self care into your advocacy work and the culture of your organization - Misty
• Youth outreach conversation - youth-led, facilitated by Isaac

11:00 AM – Peer Skill Share

Participants will be encouraged to share any skill they consider relevant to the meeting scope. The session will be structured so as to minimize group size and maximize 1-on-1 sharing opportunities.

3:15 PM – Where From Here

The group will pause to take stock of the progress made to this point and to inventory action items, next steps, and other bridges to post-event collaborations.