We thought other groups may be interested in learning more about what the Nonprofit Commons is. Please see the description and links below , and feel free to post comments with questions on what our group is doing with this organization:
The Nonprofit Commons is a nonprofits-only community office complex in Second Life. This real estate was generously donated by the Anshe Chung Studios and is being managed by TechSoup and a group of volunteer residents, with the goal of lowering the barrier of access to Second Life for nonprofits. Qualified nonprofit residents will get access to a free nonprofit space in Second Life within the Nonprofit Commons complex. This complex will be the home of many future nonprofit fairs, conferences, and events. The location of the commons is at Plush Avenue SSW and can be found by searching Nonprofit Commons in the places tab.
For more information, visit: www.nonprofitcommons.org and please contact Glitteractica Cookie or Coughran Mayo in-world, or email susan@techsoup.org.
* We have a community of nonprofits in Second Life and hold regular weekly meetings every Friday from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. PST.
*The Nonprofit Commons is open for business and packed to capacity with 32 nonprofits housed free of charge in the nonprofits-only community. We have a waiting list of several more.
*There are many images of us at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/npsl/
* For more information on what we are doing in Second Life, please visit our blog at http://www.nonprofitcommons.org and our wiki at http://npsl.wikispaces.com
* Join our discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life. This Google group is also good for all announcements and discussions. It is more of a free-for-all about nonprofits in SL.
*We save items on the web (blog articles, news, relevant links) under the tag NPSL. Use this for del.icio.us and technorati tagging. This tag is fed into our blog.
* We offer a community of practice and free office space to nonprofits in SL.
*There are two SL groups – “TechSoup.org” and “Nonprofit Commons”. Join the TechSoup.org group in Second Life. The nonprofit commons group is a residents-only group and will only accept residents of the nonprofit commons community.
*The in-world TechSoup group is a more general Nonprofits group for nonprofits in SL. This was our initial group and it’s very large. If you want to send announcements to the larger nonprofit community in SL, or to broadcast messages about whatever activities you are having in SL, please feel free to use this TechSoup group for that purpose. You do not need to be a resident to post to this group.
*If you have any questions, IM Glitteractica Cookie in-world.
