I am writing from Idealist to give you a heads-up about two things:
our upcoming season of Graduate School Fairs, and a big project we are doing with the Mozilla Foundation (the Firefox people) to connect nonprofits with techie volunteers around the world.
Let's start with the Grad-School Fairs. If you, or anyone you know, are thinking of going to grad-school next year for a degree with social impact, join us at one of the 17 fairs we'll be hosting in North America this fall (registration is free).
At each fair you can meet representatives from 50-200 graduate programs in fields such as Nonprofit Management, Education, Social Work, Global Health, International Affairs, Law, Public Policy, Urban Planning, and many more.
Here is the schedule for this fall (in parentheses you can see how many schools have already signed up for each fair):
Sep 10 - New York, NY (200)
Sep 14 - Providence, RI (75)
Sep 15 - Boston, MA (175)
Sep 17 - Toronto, ON (50)
Sep 21 - Washington, DC (160)
Sep 23 - Pittsburgh, PA (50)
Oct 5 - Denver, CO (60)
Oct 7 - Minneapolis, MN (50)
Oct 12 - Chicago, IL (110)
Oct 13 - Phoenix, AZ (50)
Oct 15 - San Francisco, CA (120)
Oct 19 - Los Angeles, CA (120)
Oct 20 - Seattle, WA (90)
Oct 22 - Portland, OR (65)
Oct 29 - New Orleans, LA (60)
Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA (90)
Nov 3 - Virginia Beach, VA (30)
For more information, to register (it's free but we need to know how many people will be there), and to see which schools will be at each fair, please go to:
http://www.idealist.org/gradfairs