Aspiration
Aspiration
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About this organization
Mission
Aspiration helps nonprofits and foundations use software tools more effectively and sustainably.
About
In 2017, Aspiration facilitated at least 37 events across North America, Central America, Europe, and Africa. These events dealt with a wide variety of nonprofit technology issues that affect human rights workers, environmental organizations, free and open knowledge and software, internet freedom, and grassroots organizations. Thousands of nonprofit staff, activists, and students representing hundreds of organizations benefited from our interactive, inclusive event format at these gatherings.Aspiration's Core Skills Capacity Building Program used new grant funding from the CRT Settlement Fund to embark on needs assessment research across California, allowing us to develop workshops and programs that will be of the most use to the most organizations in 2018 and beyond. Aspiration also self-funded its first ever New York Community Technology Skillshare in 2017, which brought together nonprofit staff, social justice organizers, techies, activists, journalists, and students to share knowledge and build skills and capacity.Our Human Rights Technology Program conducted interviews and research and published a report exploring the viability of a Human Rights Technology Research and Development Lab to strengthen human rights worldwide.Aspiration's San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center continued to offer free and below market rate office and meeting space to nonprofits using technology for social change.We became the fiscal sponsor of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, a project that is dedicated to transforming how knowledge is created, improved, and shared in nonprofit academic contexts by building community-owned software solutions in open science, open research, and open education.Aspiration held its 14th annual Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland in November 2017. Our best attended Summit to date, it included more than 150 participants from more than 90 different organizations around the world.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The non-profit's mission is outlined in the filing as being “To train charitable nonprofits in how to select and use technology in sustainable ways that increase impact; to design and run highly collaborative nonprofit technology events, focused on knowledge sharing and development of peer support networks; and to provide advice, strategy support, tools, and resources to charitable projects and foundations to help them achieve their missions of delivering high-impact technology that can meet the needs of those working for a better world.”.
When detailing its duties, they were outlined as: “Aspiration helps nonprofits and foundations use software tools more effectively and sustainably.”.
- The state in which the non-profit operates has been officially reported as CA.
- The filing reveals the non-profit's address in 2020 to be PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA, 941880264.
- The non-profit's form for the year 2020 reports a total of 9 employees on their payroll.
- Does not operate a hospital.
- Does not operate a school.
- Does not collect art.
- Does not provide credit counseling.
- Does not have foreign activities.
- Is not a donor advised fund.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $348,854.
- The CEO salary policy within the organization is subject to review and endorsement by an impartial party.
- The organization has a written policy that describes how long it will retain documents.
- The organization has 8 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2001.
- The organization has a written policy that addresses conflicts of interest.
- The organization is required to file Schedule J.
- The organization is required to file Schedule O.
- The organization pays $848,899 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $83,651 in fundraising expenses.
- The organization has minutes of its meetings.
- The organization's financial statements were reviewed by an accountant.
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