NPSL: Nonprofits in Second Life

Stacy Hasselbacher (Lyra Hammerer in SL) sends along information about an opportunity for non-profits to put up a booth for an upcoming education conference:

As some of you may already know, on May 25th there will be a 24-hour conference: the Second Life International Education Conference: Best Practices in Teaching, Learning, and Research. Nonprofits may each have a 6X6 booth with a 25 prim allowance for free.

I just got word that Infinite Vision Media is launching a Social Responsibility Initiative, an effort to allow non-profit and academic institutions to benefit from Infinite Vision's SL marketing and networking expertise. IVM's is launching this new initiative at the same time that they announce the creation of the American Cancer Society's headquarters in SL created by IVM.

I hope everyone is celebrating Earth Day in their own special way today. There are a bunch of cool activities going on in Second Life that you can find here.

I often get asked "How do you find out what non-profits are active in Second Life?" There is an enormous variety of non-profit, socially conscious, humanitarian and activist actions going on every day, but they are not always easy to find. Given the wide range of activities, there is not one definitive list of non-profits available as far as I know. That's how big Second Life is.

Here are some suggestions of where to start though:

The NetSquared conference is set for May 29-30 in San Jose, and they are looking to fund 20 new tech

Just a quick note to say that Tao Takashi has added us to his fabulous SL blog aggregator planet.WorldofSL.com. Just one more way to get the word out on our activities.

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Thanks, Tao!