In 2001, I was serving as TechFoundation's national nonprofit liaison officer and director of its Boston TechConnect program.  My role was that of an all-around cyber-yenta, but I began to field more and more requests for referrals from techies seeking jobs in the nonprofit/philanthropic sector and from nonprofit/'philanthropic staff members seeking techies.

I was swamped with resumes and job descriptions. Since matching candidates with potential employers was somewhat peripheral to my primary responsibilities, my colleague Anne Marie Michel (now at M.I.T.) urged me to streamline this with some sort of electronic solution.

The quick fix that I arranged was an email distribution list that is entirely devoted to circulating announcements of technology jobs in the nonprofit/philanthropic sector, Nonprofit Tech Jobs.  A few years on, it has over 1,100 subscribers and is open to anyone who is interested in receiving bulletins on this topic.

One of the things that I like best about running Nonprofit Tech Jobs is the opportunity to help people that I've never met in person.  It's a great pleasure to have strangers come up to me at professional events and say "I found my job (or "our agency found our technology guru") through the Nonprofit Tech Jobs list!"

If you have a story about how a techie was matched with a nonprofit or philanthropic organization - regardless of whether it involved the Nonprofit Tech Jobs list - I hope that you'll post it here.