LEAD - a Get HandsOn Summit

The most creative thinkers joined together at LEAD - A Get HandsOn! Summit in partnership with University of Phoenix and sponsored by SAP to learn how individuals are using social media tools and other innovative strategies to change the landscape of service.

Social innovators shared interesting experiences such as locating disaster victims with cell phones, quickly gathering thousands of volunteers for one-day projects and organizing person-to-person service efforts through Web-based technologies and other tools.

Community organizers, government and nonprofit leaders, corporate community affairs directors, students, social media experts and volunteer leader participated in LEAD - A Get HandsOn! Summit. These individuals came to embrace new ways of engaging people to create citizen-centered change.

Imagine. Create. Inspire.
Social innovators such as Allison Fine and presenters including CBS/Showtime Sports Broadcaster and AARP Community Ambassador James J.B. Brown, CNN's Jessica Yellin, Executive Producer of ABC News' This Week Ian Cameron and public innovation expert and host of the LEAD Summit Richard Harwood explored how new media and technology are changing the nonprofit and service landscape.

Click here to learn about the other dynamic thought leaders who presented at LEAD.

To read about all of the activities and events that occurred during National Volunteer Week, visit www.handsonnetwork.org/events/nvw2010.