One of the really fun challenges we face at Swing Left is how to help tens of thousands of budding new activists effectively engage in the fight to win back the House. Over the last year and a half, we’ve worked with countless amazing volunteers as they’ve started knocking on…

Have you been following today’s big do-gooder IPO story? It’s got everything anyone in startup land would want: Big Data? Check Gamification? Check Scrappy young upstart disrupting a boring old industry? Check Billion Dollar Exit? Check But, wait. Do a quick search of TechCrunch, Hacker News and Techmeme. …

Meet Y Combinator’s first class of non-profits — Silicon Valley’s top startup program, Y Combinator, graduated its first class of non-profit startups yesterday. As the genre defining startup accelerator, this is a pretty big deal. YC is the same institution that brought us household names like Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit and many more. Traditionally they’ve been very focused on…

If you live in a city, take a quick look around. Something crazy is happening right in front of your eyes: the personal car is disappearing. For decades, the convenience of owning a car has been so powerful that we’ve literally built our society around it. …