24 Charities, 48 Hours

The title of this post succinctly sums up the upcoming New England GiveCamp, and below are those two dozen charities that the 99 volunteers at GiveCamp will be helping over the weekend of June 11-13th. Devens Eco-Efficiency Center, Devens MA Lawrence Youth Soccer Association, Lawrence MA Acton Latino Family Network, Acton MA RESPOND, Inc., Somerville [...]

Jun

06

Behind the Scenes

Last night was a major milestone for New England GiveCamp. About a dozen volunteers got together at NERD for a three-hour session of matching our 70+ technical volunteers to the two dozen non-profit organizations we’ll be helping at GiveCamp in less than two weeks. It’s not an easy task to pull together people who don’t [...]

Jun

02

Attendee Update #1

This is the first of a series of updates we’ll be sending out leading up to the big event on June 11th. If you have signed up for GiveCamp, you should have received this same note at the e-mail address you specified when registering. If you did not please contact us at negc2010@hotmail.com, as soon [...]

May

28

New England GiveCamp Non-profits

Over the past couple of weeks, there’s been a team of volunteers that have been busy chatting with the more than 30 non-profit organizations that submitted their projects for consideration for the upcoming GiveCamp!  Although they are still finalizing the specific projects and organizations that will be participating on-site, we wanted to let you know some of those [...]

May

21

Scrum at GiveCamp

Those of you that have registered as technical volunteers (and thank you for that!) may have noticed that one of the questions on the registration form asks whether you’d be interested in being part of a team that applies Scrum to its project at GiveCamp.  As we were planning GiveCamp one of the development community [...]

Apr

30

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