(please excuse cross-posting and feel free to distribute to other appropriate US lists)
Dear Colleagues,
Imagine our community of nonprofit technology professionals in the U.S. - staff, consultants, vendors, support organizations and others - having a set of principles to guide our work and to let other communities know us better.
Most groups of professionals haveprincipals or codes of conduct that their members agree to abide by - nonprofit technology professionals (NTPs) in the USA being a notableexception. We would like to facilitate our community generating andagreeing to a set of principles/ code of conduct. The UK Circuit Ridershave already articulated a set of principles appropriate for them, that many have signed on to follow. Now we think it's our turn.
Weare presenting a draft set of principles as a starting point fordiscussion. NTEN has agreed to host the discussion through an online affinity group. Over the next 90 days, we invite all of you - and anyone else in our field you might want to invite - to review thedraft, comment, contribute and discuss (see process schedule below).
Atthe end of ninety days we will put all of the feedback and discussiontogether into a set of principles built by the community. We will thenencourage all nonprofit technology professionals to sign on to theprinciples and abide by them.
We are looking for basic principles applicable to the broadest range of nonprofit technology professionals - staff, consultants, vendors, educators and any others who identify with our community in the US.
Sign up for the discussion forum where you can view the initial draft, read more about the why? and how?, comment and discuss.
We look forward to the conversation - including in-person discussion and input at NTC - and we will contact this list again when the final draft is ready.
We hope you will join us in taking another step to professionalizing what we love to do.
Beth Kanter, John Kenyon, Michelle Murrain, Marc Osten
Process Supporters (organizations for identification purposes only):
Peter Campbell, Earthjustice & TechCafeteria
Teresa Crawford, Director Advocacy and Leadership Center, Institute for Sustainable Communities
Jeff Forster, Robert Morris University, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management
David Geilhufe, Philanthropy Program Manager at NetSuite
Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM
Mary Gross, Director of InfoTAP, a program of Nonprofit Management Solutions
Allen Gunn, Aspiration Tech
Cheryl Hanback, Web & Graphic Design
Phil Klein, Pen & Pixel
Eric Leland, Leland Design
Sheldon Mains, Nonprofit Tech Consultant
Ryan Ozimek, PICnet
Laura Quinn, Idealware
Jon Stahl, ONE/NW
Michael Stein, Internet & Media Strategist __________________________________________________________
Process
3/13 - Initial email to the community
3/19 - 3/21 - Opportunity for discussion at NTC
3/11 - 6/11 - Comments and discussion via NTEN Affinity group
6/11 - 6/23 - Comments incorporated, last draft up for comments
7/7 - Final draft posted, ready for adoption
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