Dani Diaz talks about Geeks Who Give & Indy Hall Crew at the Philabundance food drive at Philly.net Code Camp. As well as a shout out to our most recent campaign for mentors with Philadelphia Futures. Thanks for the geek love as well as to Mark Magliocco for bringing GwG to CodeCamp!
Thank you to every one who got your game on for Geeks Who Give Game Night for Philadelphia Futures. From Apples-to-Apples to Yahtzee, we all had a good time for an excellent cause, making it a win-win situation for everyone involved. And of course, we love Tattooed Mom for hosting our shenanigans and making the [...]
This Thursday, March 26, four excellent events were scheduled, all in one night – GWG, PhillyCHI, jQuery at Indy Hall, & PANMA – Yowza. In light of this awesome overload, Geeks Who Give is extending the fun to the following Thursday, April 2nd.
Join us for G2: Geeks Who Game Night at Tattooed Mom’s on Thursday, [...]
Philadelphia Futures is looking for a few good geeks, in the form of new mentors! From board games to card games, and maybe a few mind games, (Werewolf anyone?) G2: Geeks Who Game will be all about old school fun for some new school altruism. Tattooed Mom is raising the stakes with some amazing specials [...]
Come out for a good time and help a great cause: Philadelphia Futures! Join us for G2: Geeks Who Game Night at Tattooed Mom’s on Thursday March 26th.
Put some skin in the game with a minimum of 1 jump drive or 1 package of school appropriate office supplies (pens, notebooks, highlighters, etc).
There will be drink [...]
Philadelphia’s high school graduation rate is approximately 50%. You read that correctly: only 50% of high school students in Philadelphia actually graduate (compared with 89% in the suburbs). The percentage of those Philadelphia students who actually go on to four year colleges and universities is much lower.
Philadelphia Futures is a local nonprofit that has [...]
It’s not a foreign concept to the Geeks Who Give community: mobilize people through the use of Social Media (in this case, namely Twitter) to get together, have fun, and do some good.
Originating in London in the fall of 2008, Twestival has since grown into a global effort to help raise money for Charity:Water; [...]
Organized by the “Concerned Library Workers of Drexel University”, the power house group behind the Save the Libraries Campaign – Bibliodiscotheque was a huge “Fund and Awareness-raising” success. By using Facebook, the community-driven organization was able to mobilize people quickly; as a result, National Mechanics was packed, and Philadelphia Weekly was there to watch [...]
This Saturday, December 20th, 2008: Bibliodiscotheque at National Mechanics in Old City, Philadelphia:
Three librarians and one geek will be spinning great music to the tune of saving the eleven branches of the Philadelphia Free Library that are slated to close due to Mayor Nutter’s budget cuts.
Like the libraries this event aims to save, this event [...]
To every geek out there: thank you.
127 people came out for the Philabundance Food Drive & Tweetup on December 9th 2008. The atmosphere at National Mechanics was festive, the specials were delicious, Fork You! was hilarious, and the raffle was a blast. While we had tons of fun, we also did some really good stuff. [...]
Please join us on Thursday April 2nd for our next GWG event to benefit Philadelphia Futures!
Get involved, become a mentor!