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Envision Hawai‘i, ChipIn and Social eCommerce
Just got back from vacation in Hawai'i and am still feeling the Aloha spirit, so I thought I'd write a post about Hawaiian nonprofits using the social web for social change. Let me know if you know of any 'cause I didn't find any examples, but I did come across Beth Kanter's interview with Carnet Williams from last summer. Carnet started Community Networking Technologies (which later became NetCorps) and went on to help start NTEN as a board member, and co-founded npoblogs.net. He and his wife moved to Hawai'i a few years ago. You can check out his blog at Darkstar.
Coincidentally, he is also involved with a Hawaiian startup called ChipIn, which I found through a June 28th interview from the Honolulu Times about Song Choi, who in addition to co-founding ChipIn, is involved with Envision Hawai‘i, a network of young people, "working to make careers out of making a difference in Hawai‘i."
ChipIn's goal is to provide groups with a "social ecommerce" tool to make it easy for them to collect money for a social cause. You can check out the ChipBlog here and read more about ChipIn in this Honolulu Business Magazine article.
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Did you meet Carnet?
Beth Kanter
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Nope
Got all the info. about him from your post and other online articles.
Britt Bravo
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Next time we meet!
Britt,
Thanks for the writeup and mention. Too bad we didn't get a chance to meet. For sure, drop me a line next time you are on island. I spend about half my time now in San Francisco working out of our Bay Area office, so maybe we will cross paths someday. I used to work with Daniel and Phil a bunch in the old compumentor days. I really do hope that ChipIn will help the nonprofit sector connect and collect contributions from the "long-tail" of the sector. I believe empowering individuals to solicit support from their social network is a powerful fundraising force. Let's see if it works!
"expat" from Hawai'i
Good post, Britt. And kudos for using the correct orthography in spelling the proper name for the Aloha State.
As an 'expat' from Hawai'i, now living in the Bay Area, this is the first time I'm hearing about both the Envision Hawai'i group and ChipIn. Have checked both of them out and found that my college buddy Andrew Cha is on the Envision steering group.
Mahalo for the info!