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- 2. USING YOUR SUPER POWERS FOR GOOD CLEVELAND GIVECAMP JONATHAN KNAPP @CC_JONKNAPP
- 3. USE YOUR WORDPRESS POWERS FOR GOOD MICHELLE AMES @MICHELLEAMES
- 9. YOU COULD BE A SUPER HERO
- 11. AKRON, OHIO STARTED IN 2006
- 12. SUPPORT WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD
- 13. THANKING
- 15. MARKETING
- 16. SPEAKING
- 17. SPONSORING
- 19. LEADING
- 20. MENTORSHIP
- 21. YOU COULD BE A SUPER HERO
- 23. YOU ARE A SUPER HERO
- 28. PRODUCE HIGHER VALUE FOR YOUR TIME
- 29. CLEVELAND, OH JULY 20TH - 22ND CLEVELANDGIVECAMP.ORG
- 30. 20 PROJECTS 200+ VOLUNTEERS 24 HOURS (46 WITHOUT SLEEP) CLEVELANDGIVECAMP.ORG
- 33. IT TAKES ALL OF US • project managers • designers • copywriters • database administrators • hosting environment specialists • social media gurus • friendly conversationalists
- 43. PAST NON-PROFITS • Akron Blind Center and Workshop, Inc (@AkronBlindC) • Consortium of African American Organizations (@CAAOCleveland) • Cosmic Bobbins Foundation (@CosmicBobbins) • Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center (@DVCAC) • Economic & Community Development Institute (@ECDIoh) • Empowering Epilepsy (@EMPEpilepsy) • Family Connections • Info Line, Inc. (@InfoLineInc) • International Women’s Air and Space Museum (@WomenInTheAir) • Lake/Geauga Educational Assistance Foundation (@LEAF_Ohio) • Lorain County Safe Harbor DBA Genesis House (@GenesisHouse1) • Love in Neglected Communities (@LINCworldwide) • Progressive Arts Alliance, Inc. • Services for Independent Living • StarkFresh (@Fresh_Stark) • Transracial Journeys • University Settlement (@USettlement) • Ursuline Piazza (@UrsulinePiazza) • The Valentine Project Inc. (@ValentineProj) • Womankind, Inc. • Blossom Hill (@BlossomHillHome) • Cleveland Grays Armory Museum (@GraysArmory) • Euclid Hunger Task Force, Inc. • EYEJ: Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice (@eyejCleveland) • Gordon Square Arts District (@GordonSquare) • Great Lakes Light Opera (@GLLO_Cleveland) • Harvard Community Services Center (@HarvardCSC) • Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland • Loyola Retreat House, Inc. • Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland (@NHSCleveland) • The New Agrarian Center (@CityFresh) • The Nightlight Cinema (@NightlightAkron) • North Union Farmers Market (@NUFarmersMarket) • Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates • Redeemer (ICH) Crisis Center • Summit County Community Partnership (@CPSummitCounty) • Summit Food Policy Coalition (@SummitFPC) • Women’s Network of Northeast Ohio (@WomensNetworkOh) • Working Animals Giving Service for Kids (@WAGS4KIDS) 2017 2016
- 44. PAST NON-PROFITS • Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio (@AdaptiveSportOH) • Akron Community Center and Urban League • Canalway Partners (@CanalwayCLE): Towpath Trilogy (@TowPathMarathon) • Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation (@owdcleveland) • Cleveland Furniture Bank (@CLEFurnitureBnk) • Cleveland International Hall of Fame (@CleIHoFame) • East Akron Neighborhood Development Corporation (@EANDC330) • East Side Organizing Project (@ESOPcommunity) • Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival (@GCUFF) • Jason Madachy Foundation (@JasonMadachyFDN) • Lake/Geauga Educational Assistance Foundation (@LEAF_Ohio) • Malachi House of Hope (@MalachiHouse) • Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition (@NEOBlackHealth) • Opportunity Parish Ecumenical Neighborhood Ministry – OPEN-M (@OpenM) • St. Clair Superior Development Corporation (@StClairSuperior) – CAN Journal (@CAN_journal) • Towards Employment (@TowardsEmploy) • TrueNorth Cultural Arts (@TNCArts) • Urban Vision • Veggie U (@VeggieU) • Canalway Partners (@CanalwayCLE) • Cleveland Disc Association (@CDA_info) • Computers Assisting People Inc. (@ClevelandCAP) • Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center (@DVCAC) • Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute (@EdwinsCLE) • Emerald Development & Economic Network, Inc. (EDEN) (@Eden_CLE) • Engage! Cleveland (@EngageCleveland) • Euclid Symphony (@EuclidSymphony) • For the Love of Pits (@4theloveofpits) • Galen Foundation (@PBeatingCancer) • Lake Erie Ink: a writing space for youth (@LakeErieInk) • Lakewood Alive (@LakewoodAlive) • Lorain County Habitat for Humanity • Nature Center at Shaker Lakes (@ShakerLakes) • Reaching Heights (@ReachingHeights) • South Street Ministries • Suicide Prevention Education Alliance • The Portage Foundation (@PortageFound) • University Settlement (@USettlement) • West Side Community House (@TheWSCH) • Zygote Press Inc (@zygotepress) 2015 2014
- 45. PAST NON-PROFITS • Bike Cleveland • Cleveland Eastside Ex-Offender Coalition • Cleveland TimeBank, a project of the Stockyards, Clark- Fulton, and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office • Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park • Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center • Free Clinic • Guardians Advocating Child Safety and Protection • Heights Arts • LAND Studio • Leadership Lorain County • Lorain County Safe Harbor • Malachi House • May Dugan Center • Near West Family Network • North Coast Community Homes • Operation StandUP! • The Hummingbird Project • Westside Industrial Retention & Expansion Network (WIRE- Net) • Chagrin Documentary Film Festival • Cleveland Mediation Center • Digital LifeBooks, Inc., a program of Andrews House • Greater Cleveland Volunteers • HandsOn Northeast Ohio • Home Repair Resource Center • Lake County Free Medical Clinic, Inc. • Lake Erie Ink: a writing space for youth • Long Term Care Ombudsman • Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons, Inc. • Mt. Pleasant Community Zone • New Avenues to Independence, Inc. • Northeast Ohio Adoption Services • Northeast Ohio Chapter of the USGBC • Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education • Ohio City Bicycle Co-op • Ohio City Inc. • The Arc of Greater Cleveland • The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland • The Galen Foundation dba PeopleBeatingCancer • The Galvin Education & Resource Center for Families • The Sculpture Center • Think of Ability, Inc. • Walk of Faith Community Center 2013 2012
- 46. PAST NON-PROFITS • Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio • American Indian Education Center • Arts Collinwood • ASL Advocates • Care Alliance • Cleveland Rape Crisis Center • Community Greenhouse Partners • DBSA – Bipolar Support System • EcoWatch • Emerald Development & Economic Network, Inc • Euclid Beach Park Now • Fairhill Partners • Heights Community Congress • Maximum Accessible Housing of Ohio • Neighborhood House Association • OSU Extension, Urban Agriculture Program • Public Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) • St. Clair Superior Development Corporation • St. Paul Community Outreach • The Cleveland Carousel • Valley Art Center • Youth Challenge • Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation • Cleveland Rowing Foundation • Cleveland Technical Societies Council • Cleveland Tenants’ Organization • Cogswell Hall • Epilepsy Association • International Women’s Air & Space Museum • Joan C. Edwards Foundation • Kiddie City • LATINA, Inc. • League of Women Voters of Cleveland Educational Fund • Lundy Bancroft Domestic Violence Abuser Education • PAWS Ohio • Project Hope / Ecumenical Shelter • Rebuilding Together Cleveland • Richmond Heights Fire Department • SPACES • Suicide Prevention Alliance • Urban Community School • Ursuline Piazza • Waiting Child Fund 2011 2010
- 49. CLEVELAND, OH JULY 20TH - 22ND SEE YOU SOON! CLEVELANDGIVECAMP.ORG JONATHAN KNAPP @CC_JONKNAPP
Editor's Notes
- Cleveland GiveCamp: Using Your Super Powers for Good Interested in using your Wordpress skills for the greater good? Learn more about Cleveland GiveCamp, an annual hackathon style weekend where we work on tech projects for local non-profits. We work with about 20 non-profits per year and have about 200+ volunteers working all day (and night) to save time, money, and to give back to our community. This year’s event is July 20th - 22nd and registration is now open at http://clevelandgivecamp.org. At this talk we’ll discuss different ways to use your talents for building a better world through volunteering your skills, mentoring others, and sponsoring events and orgs you’d like to see more of in the world.
- This was the original title slide that I had in place.
- A huge thanks to Michelle Ames for basically covering everything in my talk :) I’ll be purposefully blocking off time to answer questions about GiveCamp and the ways that people can assist after my presentation.
- This is my cousin Addie; she’s a super hero
- I’m talking, legitimately thinks that she is a super hero.
- Because she’s a kid, and the entire world is laid out in front of her to grasp. Think of all the things that she does for the first time that blow away her little mind. Being a kid is awesome.
- But here’s the thing. All of us here today could be a super hero.
- Just think about it for a second…
- Hello, I’m Jonathan Knapp. In 2006, I started a small company called Coffee in Code. I wanted to build cool things for other people. I wanted to help ideas become realities. One of the nice side effects of running you own company is I get to do things my way. That can come off a bit egotistical and arrogant, but what I mean by this is that I have the unique ability to determine where time, energy, effort, and money are spent as a company.
- That allows me to support more of what I want to see more of in the world. Over the years, I realized that it takes a lot of time, effort, money, sweat, and tears to make things happen. I noticed that without explicit action, things you take for granted may one day be gone. So, early on I did a bunch of things, many of which everyone in this room can start doing as well.
- Tell people they are appreciated and that their work is meaningful to you. Everyone can and should do this. It’s important to provide positive feedback to things that you want to see more of because most of the time, they are labor of love projects from extremely amazing people. It’s easy to leave negative reviews, but we don’t remember how helpful positive feedback can be.
- I’ve brought some thank you cards to help you get a head start. If you’ve enjoyed the conference I encourage you to thank the organizers with a card. I’ve organized quite a few events and have only received a thank you card once or twice. Trust me, that if you take just a bit of your the time that your actions will be remembered for a long time.
- How to you help guarantee that things will continue in future years? Help promote events and get the word out. Flood social media with energetic messages and pictures that capture the energy of events so help create more future participation.
- Reach out to local meetup organizers and ask to talk on a subject. If you’re new to speaking this is a great way to get started. You can even ask to pitch a mini presentation at as a 5 minute lightning talk.
- Bring up sponsorship opportunities at your work. Contemplate sponsoring on your own.
- Don’t think that you have to get bigger to be able to give back either. I sponsored Steel City Ruby in 2013 when it was still a company of one. In case you’re interested, I didn’t have anything to put in the booth space I was offered as a sponsor so I made a sign out of cardboard, macaroni noodles, and stickers from Guitar Hero. It got a few chuckles.
- Run a meetup, organize a study group, reach out to an existing group and ask how you can help.
- Reach out to help people who are getting started. You’ll be surprised what you learn in return.
- So let’s circle back to this “we could be super heros” thing. Hopefully, what I’ve said, and what other speakers at this conference have said, have gotten you think a bit about what you have to give back.
- But what if you’re still not sure of your next move… here’s a bit of confidence.
- What if I told you that you already are a super hero, or you at least have super powers. Example of talking “mom” through printing a website or setting up a printer. That’s an area where you can provide a lot of value without a lot of effort on your part. To be fair, walking through a print dialog over the phone takes quite a bit of effort. Are there other skills that you have, possibly ones you enjoy leveraging a bit more, that you can provide as well?
- I would imagine almost everyone at this conference has the ability to create websites from thin air. To take a concept that exists in someone’s head…
- and to make it a reality! Remember how powerful you felt when you created your first website?
- But we all have some secrets…
- We have some pretty cool tools that help us wield these super powers. Using tools like WordPress we can develop websites faster and more productive than handwriting a bunch of html and css. We can utilize existing plugins, themes, code examples, tutorials, and more.
- As you acquire more responsibilities in life, the time that you have available becomes less and less. That’s why I love opportunities that allow me to maximize my provided value for the amount of time required.
- That leads me into talking about GiveCamp, the main reason I’m here. It’s an annual event that is coming up July 20th through the 22nd in Cleveland, OH. I’m one of 12 other current organizers that work hard to keep this event coming back year after year.
- July 20th - 22nd, over 200 volunteers will come together to help area non-profits with their technical problems.
- I like to call it condensed volunteerism. It’s when you give a whole lot in a short amount of time. Filling up your karma meter in a weekend. It’s all about higher value output for your time.
- So how does WordPress related to GiveCamp? You may be able to guess, but most non-profits, like most companies are not the most technically savvy and greatly benefit from a platform that is focused on sharing functionality and simplifying administration. About 90% of our projects each year are helping to build, upgrade, or transfer to WordPress sites for a non-profits main website, their donation platform, or their internal business software. We even do a few training sessions during the weekend to help train non-profits on how to manage and maintain their new websites.
- We need more than just developers to complete a project in a weekend.
- Here’s an example of the amazing people that make GiveCamp a success.
- While we focus heavily on the “giving”, there is also camping available during the event for those brave soles who love the outdoors.
- While I’m not a big camper myself, you’ve got to agree that this is a beautiful view.
- We cap off the event with presentations from each of the project teams to explain a bit about where they started, what they accomplished, and how that work is going to help the non-profit execute its mission. So what do you think about GiveCamp? Will you join me?
- Here are a few lists of the non-profits we’ve been able to help over the past 8 years.
- Now that you know a bit more about the skills that are required to bring a lot of value to a local non-profit, who’s interested in becoming a super hero? Or, at the very least, just remember….
- At the end of the day, we’re all in this together. Positive change and community impact require action and intention and I hope that I’ve been able to inspire at least a few of you to dive in a bit deeper so that we can all benefit collectively.
- I hope this presentation has made you feel a bit more confident in your ability to use your own “super powers” for good, improving the world just a tad bit more than how it was revealed to you. We live in a seemingly weird time where a little extra kindness and an explicit attempt to generate goodwill can go a long way. I encourage you to leverage that opportunity to the fullest. If anyone has questions, or would like to talk more about my presentation, feel free to introduce yourself after this talk. You can find out more about myself and my company at coffeeandcode.com.
- Thank you very much! I hope everyone has enjoyed the conference and has a great rest of the weekend.