Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source. From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors.

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Web API Open Source NTEN 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions.

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Open Source Blackbaud Time Fundraising 100

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After our acquisition of Kintera in 2008, we went through a similar review process and decided to focus that product on the peer-to-peer fundraising space and to stop offering it as a CRM product. As a summary: Before March 31, 2014, we will work with each Common Ground customer to support their migration to another solution.

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Blackbaud Product Integration Platform 29