Bio
Allison researches and writes about the intersection of social media and social change. She is the co-author of the bestselling book, The Networked Nonprofit, published by Wiley & Sons in 2010. She also wrote the award-winning book Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age (Wiley & Sons, 2006).
Allison is a Senior Fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos: A Network for Change and Action in New York City. In 2008, she published a paper on young people and activism commissioned by the Case Foundation call Social Citizens beta, and edited a collection of essays, Rebooting America, about transformative ways to reinvent 21st century democracy using new media tools. Allison hosts a monthly podcast for the Chronicle of Philanthropy called Social Good and writes her own blog, A. Fine Blog.
Allison was the Founder and Executive Director of Innovation Network, Inc. (www.innonet.org) from 1992-2004, which still provides program planning and evaluation support for nonprofits and foundation. She served as the C.E.O. of The E-Volve Foundation in 2004-2005. Allison is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and New York University.
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Here Comes Everybody:
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
"Thoughtful and thought provoking. Far from a technical manual, it raises compelling issues that deserve consideration by all nonprofit organizations."
05/01/2008
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