About the Author

llison Fine is a social entrepreneur and writer dedicated to helping grassrootsorganizations and activists successfully im-plement social change efforts. She authoredthe book “Momentum: Igniting SocialChange in the Connected Age” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2006), which won the Alliancefor Nonprofit Management’s erry McAdamBook Award and an Axiom BusinessBook Award. As a Senior Fellow on the Democracy eamat Demos: A Network for Ideas & Actionin New York City, Allison researches and writes about the future of social changeand civic engagement in the digital age.Her articles have been published in

The Boston Globe

, the

San Jose Mercury News

,and the

San Francisco Chronicle

. She is alsoa frequent contributor to the

Personal Democracy Forum

and

The Chronicleof Philanthropy

. Allison served as the CEO of the E-VolveFoundation in 2004-2005, and was thefounder and Executive Director of Innova-tion Network, Inc., from 1992-2004.She currently serves on the board of direc-tors of Just Vision, a nonprofit organizationthat increases awareness about Palestinianand Israeli non-violent, civilian-led effortsto build a base for peace in the Middle East;and OneWebDay, an annual celebration of the Internet.

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,” Te CaseFoundation, 2008.