Peak Oil -- And What Do We Do Now?

Aspiration connects nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations to software solutions that help them more effectively meet their missions of positive global change. We connect and strengthen physical communities of nonprofit users and software developers by convening and facilitating Social Source Commons. We connect and strengthen virtual communities of nonprofit users and developers through the Social Source Commons, which maps out available software tools and related information resources. And we provide capacity building services, working with software developers to produce better tools for nonprofits, and with nonprofits to better leverage these tools.

Aspiration is a global leader in the design and delivery of innovative technology gatherings for nonprofit and nongovernmental audiences. Our event philosophy and facilitation focus on maximizing collaboration and peer sharing, while making sparing use of one-to-many and several-to-many session formats such as presentations and panels. We believe the ultimate potential and power of any convening lie in the collective untapped knowledge and experience of the participants, and we strive to tap that vast store by maximizing dialog, creativity and idea exchange.

Over the past several years, we have convened and co-organized over 40 highly interactive events across the globe. We focus agendas around user-oriented dialog that connects all the stakeholders in software design and development, and model our events to reflect the diverse and network-oriented nature of the communities we convene.

Aspiration is also developing the Social Source Commons, a platform for collaboratively mapping and documenting the universe of software tools relevant to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations.

As part of our community building work, Aspiration operates the San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center. The Center is home to 6 organizations working in nonprofit and social change technology, and offers training and meeting space as well.

For more information about our work and programs, see www.aspirationtech.org.