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This year, the Mitchell Kapor Foundationd decided to do something a little different for their annual report— they did a video shoot. These days, most nonprofits go paperless for their annual reports, creating PDFs and simply e-amilng them to their contacts. But the folks over at the Kapor Foundation wanted to do something more engaging with a little more personality, so they all did their part to report the yearly financials in front of the green screen.

We host a monthly lunchtime speaker series here at the Kapor Center. December's luncheon featured Rodolfo Mendoza Denton, who is an associate professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and studies stigma and its implications for education. He spoke to the Kapor Center about the ways feelings of inclusion and belonging affect academic performance and the decisions that minority students make about their professional trajectories.

There is more and more activity surrounding the development of The Kapor Center in Oakland, so we wanted to create a simple web presence for our soon-to-be home. The goal was to create a relatively simple "starter site" that could provide information on activities transpiring at both our current location and our future Oakland location.

We recently used Xmind to create a series of mindmaps to capture and document discussions at the 2010 What Works! conference sponsored by Mitchell Kapor Foundation. Mindmapping is a great tool to use for brainstorming and planning, but in this case, we used it for notetaking and graphic faciliation.

Level Playing Field Institute hosted its annual Fairness Matters Gala at the San Francisco City Club and asked if the Smashcasters could come out and conduct video interviews with event attendees, asking the question, "Why Does Fairness Matter To You?" The video was then edited, posted online, and sent out to all of the guests two days a later as a post-event Thank You.