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San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder and Chairman at VoterWatch
- Founder and CEO at GreatNonprofits
- Past
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- Special Projects Advisor at ClickTV
- Founder and Publisher at Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Cofounder and Editor in Chief at Grassroots.com
- Reporter, Editor at AsianWeek
- Education
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- Harvard Law School
- University of California, Berkeley
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Perla Ni’s Summary
Publisher and builder of communities focused on nonprofits, philanthropy and corporate social responsibility.
Perla Ni’s Specialties:
Nonprofit management, philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. Online communities around social issues.
Perla Ni’s Experience
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Founder and Chairman
VoterWatch
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
I'm the founder of VoterWatch, a nonpartisan nonprofit that allows you to easily and conveniently search videos of Congress to find out what's going on about the issues that matter most to you and your community. And then, you can easily blog or email just those parts with your friends, audience, and membership at the click of a button.
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Founder and CEO
GreatNonprofits
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Philanthropy industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
GreatNonprofits aims to be a place where people can talk about great - and also not so great nonprofits. It's a democratic, bottom-up, approach to connecting people who are passionate about social impact.
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Special Projects Advisor
ClickTV
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
I'm advising ClickTV on how to use their technology for annotation of government, nonprofit and instructional video.
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Founder and Publisher
Stanford Social Innovation Review
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
April 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 3 months)
I conceptualized and launched the Stanford Social Innovation Review with the Stanford Graduate School of Business. It is now the leading magazine on nonprofit management, philanthropy and corporate citizenship. Working as first managing editor, and then publisher and then for a short period, I had to fill both roles (yikes!), I oversaw, at one point or another, all editorial and business sides of the operation. I created diversified revenue stream from the magazine, reprints, special collections, seminars and DVD. I also launched the first Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute and webcast series, and blog. You can find me regularly on my soapbox on the SSIR blog which I also launched.
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Cofounder and Editor in Chief
Grassroots.com
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
June 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 1 month)
I helped launch the VC-funded start-up which, at the time, was the largest site for political and advocacy news and tools for action. It was Web 1.0 of social networking for nonprofits and political activists. I wrote a big part of the business plan, recruited co-founders, and led the editorial direction - including getting exclusive columns from Chris Buckley and Michael Moore. I'm pretty proud of Grassroots and my co-founders who stayed and transformed it into the premiere technology provider for public policy campaigns.
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Reporter, Editor
AsianWeek
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
September 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 2 months)
This was my first job out of law school. And I loved that I wasn't working in law. I had am amazingly expansive beat - politics, business and social issues for the largest Asian American newsweekly. Journalism is a job that I would recommend to everyone - try it at least once in your life even as a citizen journalist - your job is to meet and talk to people from different walks of life, get to know them, ask them questions and try to understand why they do or think the way they do. You will not get bored.
Perla Ni’s Education
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Harvard Law School
JD, Law, 1995 — 1998
- Activities and Societies:
- There was a guy in my section who disappeared for a couple of months to be on Jeapardy - I didn't have that much balls, but I did find ways to minimize my in class time. I founded and was the editor-in-chief of Harvard Asia Quarterly, the first joint publication of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. I wrote for Harvard Law Record. And I also interned at WGBH to produce a weekly TV show about consumer legal issues.
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University of California, Berkeley
BA, Psychology, 1993 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Berkeley has a fabulous psychology department and I published articles in their first undergraduate psych journal.
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Perla Ni’s Interests:
Fun Stuff: Festivals - burning man, the palio of Siena, mardi gras in brazil, new orleans. Salsa dancing. Serious Stuff: politics, free information, work that expresses talents and creativity for the common good.
Perla Ni’s Groups:
Board Member of Goodwill San Francisco, Advisory Board of SF Nonprofit Finance Fund, Pacific Council Member
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Harvard Law School Alumni Network member
Perla Ni’s Honors:
2003 Maggie Finalist - Best New Magazine
Conference Speaker: NetImpact, US World Economic Forum, Grantmakers For Effective Organizations, Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit
Judge: SF Business Times Corporate Philanthropy Awards, Donor's Forum Florida IMPACT awards
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