2019 Los Angeles Agenda
The following is the working agenda for the California Nonprofit Technology Festival in Los Angeles on July 10 - 11, 2019.
Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Afternoon: Travel Day
Out-of-town participants start to arrive
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Coffee and light breakfast
Welcome and Opening Circle
The event started with introductions and welcomes, an overview of the agenda and guidelines, and announcements.
Stories from Across LA and Around the State
Participants engaged in story-sharing and conversations about work they are doing in their various communities and movements.
- Supporting and organizing with young folks in Fresno and Merced - Ines and Vanessa
- Issues and challenges of organizing day labor worker centers in LA - Guadalupe
- Organizing for tenant's rights in East LA - JMo and Pamela
- Advocating for active mobility and transportation justice throughout LA - Erick
- Advocating for food justice and access throughout Los Angeles - Valeria
- What it takes to mobilize a network advocating for Media Justice nationwide - Adrian
Break
Agenda Hacking: Mapping Technology Needs and Knowledge
Lunch
Participants are encouraged to sit with friends they have not yet met!
Collaborative Working Sessions I
Participants chose from 5-7 working groups, and were welcomed to suggest or request additional sessions.
- How to find tech solutions as a low resource organization - Yesenia
- Communications strategies and resources - Erick
- Phone security 101 - Ken
- Tech roles at nonprofits - Lisa
- Challenges and best practices for managing multilingual work - Mago
- Storytelling as a tool for reaching our goals - Gilda
- Facilitative leadership - Misty
- Funding Technology - Gunner (pending)
Break
Group Picture
Closing Circle
Adjourn Day 1
Participants are welcome to stay after and ask additional questions.
Post-Event Hang Out
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Coffee and light breakfast
Opening Circle
Collaborative Working Sessions II
Participants chose from 5-7 working groups, and were welcomed to suggest or request additional sessions.
- Project Management 101 - Gunner and Gilda
- Digital inclusion and meaningful access - Maegan
- Facilitative leadership development conversation continued - Misty
- Stories and lessons learned from nonprofit and tech shop collaborations - Andrea
- How to hold warmth and depth in virtual spaces - Jonah
- Managing burnout - Marty
Break
Speed Geeking
Participants presented tools, skills and work they are doing in their various regions and fields, in a fast-paced collaborative format.
- Universe of Technology - Everett Program crew
- Aktioner, mobile app for local civic engagement - Nemo
- Digital Security Checklists - Jonah
- Mapping as a powerful tool - Mago
- Phone photo and video editing - Erick
- EFF tools - Shahid
- Tor browser - Gunner
Lunch
Collaborative Working SessionsIII
Participants chose from 5-7 working groups, and were welcomed to suggest or request additional sessions.
- CRM Tracking leadership development - Lisa
- All about worker-owned cooperatives - Andrea
- Bilingual communications processes and social media tactics - JMo and Karen
- Deep resistance - Maxwell
- Combatting police surveillance - Ken and Shahid
- Our relationship with our data - Gunner
Break
Where From Here
The group paused to take stock of the progress made to this point and to inventory action items, next steps, and other bridges to post-event collaborations.