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Guest Post: Murphy’s Law — sometimes simpler is better in technology for volunteer management

Twenty Hats

Thus came my introduction to the wonderful world of Google Sheets for scheduling and the nightmare of sending scheduling emails before we had scheduling apps and volunteer management systems to simplify this laborious task. We had a list of maybe 100 volunteers and it was my job to email them all to ask about days and times for volunteering.

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How a Data-Driven Approach Supports Community Engagement

Saleforce Nonprofit

YLP came to our team at Economic Change CIC in 2019 because they needed a system that could be easily accessed by individual pantries to record memberships and visits on a day-to-day basis. Our team at Economic Change customised a back-end membership management system to allow for Pantry members and their payments to be tracked.

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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Taken at face value, CitySoft certainly doesn’t violate the letter of the law, since you can get the source code if you buy their product, but their source code is unavailable otherwise, it sort of violates the spirit of open source.) 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends. Will this advertising platform alienate users?

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A Jargon-Free Guide to Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3C)

NonProfit Hub

Other examples have included farmers’ markets, newspapers, law groups and art centers. Since the first American L3C was started only in 2008, this concept is relatively new to the business and legal world. This is one of the requirements for L3Cs the law puts forth for this business model. Can I start an L3C?

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. While the overwhelming consensus was that such behavior isn’t right, there are few laws on the books to address these scenarios.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

This campaign needs to communicate details about all hunting laws, most of which are completely unknown to the average person. The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting.