Organizers' Collaborative conducted a survey of our membership in the Fall of 2007. We received nearly a hundred responses. Here is what we found out.

Who's Involved

Over 87% of those who responded have been involved with OC for a year a more with 62% being involved for 3 years or more. Respondents were often organizers with technical skills working with organizations with little to no IT support. Most folks are from very small organizations and surprisingly the next largest group were from large organizations with small and midsized groups ranking last. It could be that our unique mix of those who desperately need skills and those who have developed the time and space to share, account for this distribution. It is hard to say.

The Organizers’ Collaborative (OC) is seeking an energetic person with substantial organizing and fund-raising experience. This is a hands-on, part-time position, involving program administration, fund-raising, and office management responsibilities. The organization has a strong base of volunteers, over 300 paid members, good administrative systems, an active board, and a solid track record in providing an annual nonprofit technology conference as well as free database software. New leadership is needed to help the group cement the progress and relationships it has already built and to develop a stronger financial base for its operations in the long term. The job involves approximately 15-20 hours a week and is compensated at $20 to $25 an hour.

Organizers’ Collaborative is looking for a database consultant to work with its Organizers Database project (ODB) in a support capacity. If you have demonstrated experience with CRM / membership software programs in a nonprofit setting and possess excellent customer-oriented communications skills, you may just be the person we are looking for.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone in the Boston or Eastern Massachusetts area who is comfortable with computers and spreadsheets and wants to learn all the ODB features inside out (download our free software to find out more: http://organizersdb.org). Eight hours of free training will be provided at OC's Beacon Hill office. It is possible, but unlikely, that we could hire someone who is not in Eastern, MA.

We've just implemented Flickr Photo Badges (http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne) on the OC homepage. If you happen to have photos from past Organizers' Collaborative events, such as the Grassroots Use of Technology Conference or Organizational Divide Initiative Training, upload them to Flickr (free account at http://www.flicker.com) and tag them wiht "OCTech".

It will be fun to see our collective photo memory grow!!!!

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2006 can best be described as a year of transition. Check out our Annual Report for 2006 and here's to a prosperous 2007!!!

On Friday, December 15, ten Boston area community organizations attended an ODB workshop at the Democracy Center in Harvard Square.

You can see a few of the new screenshots from the software that we demoed by going to our Flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/organizersdb/

Groups attending the presentation were:

Alliance for Democracy
Boston Mobilization

OC welcomes Felicia Sullivan as our new Executive Director. Born in New York State, Felicia moved to Massachusetts in 1995. Since then she has been engaged in the community media & technology movements as well as worked with social justice and arts organizations.

Felicia brings a long track record to Organizers' Collaborative -- serving for over 8 years as at the Lowell Telecommunications Corporation in Lowell, MA. There she directed a city-wide community technology consortium that addressed the digital divide of youth, immigrants and low-income individuals in the City of Lowell. Prior to LTC, Felicia was Education Director at the Boston Film / Video Foundation meeting the needs of independent media makers. Felicia has served on the national board of CTCNet and currently serves as a board officer at two Lowell-based organizations -- the 119 Gallery, and the One Lowell Coalition.

The Organizers' Collaborative (OC) is seeking an energetic person with substantial organizing and fund-raising experience. This is a hands-on position, involving program administration, fund-raising, and office management responsibilities. The organization has a strong base of volunteers, over 300 paid members, good administrative systems, an active board, and a solid track record in providing an annual nonprofit technology conference as well as free database software. New leadership is needed to help the group cement the progress and relationships it has already built and to develop a stronger financial base for its operations in the long term.

Please see the attached job description for more information.

Organizers’ Collaborative holds 7th Annual Grassroots Use of
Technology Conference on Saturday, June 17
Longtime Boston Community Leader Mel King hosts post-conference dinner

On Saturday, June 17, 2006 over 200 individuals representing more than 75 community-based and nonprofit organizations throughout the Northeast came together at UMASS Boston for Organizers' Collaborative (OC) Seventh Annual Grassroots Use of Technology Conference. Co-sponsored by the CTC Vista Project at UMASS Boston, this national conference provided valuable training and information to nonprofit professionals and activists on how they could best use technology to effect social change.