Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

If you missed the event or would like to revisit the highlights, check out our on-demand content and resource library. Before joining Salesforce in 2008, she held positions in customer support, professional services, product marketing, and program management at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera. Watch On Demand.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. It just isn’t intuitive to use (Photoshop isn’t either, really.)

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In our quest to build a solid foundation for nonprofits and libraries to understand how cloud computing is likely to affect us, we have now completed our GreenTech Initiative Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign. Our final offering of the campaign is an article entitled Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

They’ll explain the best first steps for getting started and help beginners understand how these emerging technologies can help libraries and nonprofits conduct outreach, raise funds, create community, and share ideas. billion in IT expenses as of September 2008. This popular program has enabled organizations to save over $1.2

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. C2C is eager for all libraries and charities that are serving low-income Americans of all ages who may find low-cost Internet, training, and equipment useful to register with C2C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania. Go participate and if you happen to be the winner, go donate the money to Stacey Monk’s, founder of epic change, new amazing project, LaLaLove.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The first round of voting will end on December 31, 2008. I hope he'll make funding, supporting, and using "public" services like education, transportation, parks, libraries and broadcasting cool too. change.org Obama politics public education transportation park broadcasting library

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. As a concrete example, consider the library. But the string is the library card. The card is a passport to continue your experience with the books and with the library.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2012

Many nonprofits or libraries need to bring in an outside graphic designer, or ask a tech-savvy volunteer or staff member to do the work on top of other duties. Evergreen and International Rivers were runners-up in the 2008 Show Your Impact contest.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. We have served more than 12,300 nonprofits and libraries across all 50 states, and we estimate that we have have saved organizations somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.5

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Alabama Eye Bank operates the Global Sight Network , a service the eye bank started in 2008 to provide corneas prepared through long-term preservation to health-care facilities in developing countries. And it tracks employee mileage and other travel expenses. The Global Sight Network. TechSoup Resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

Maybe together we can start up again during National Volunteer Week April 27-May 3, 2008. Personally, I'd like to start volunteering at my local library. Aside from school and home, I probably spent more time at my local library while I was growing up than anywhere else. How often do you volunteer?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

If you don't believe me, check out the reach and impact we've had from 2008 alone. We are the conduit via which those for-profit companies listed on our site distribute donated products to nonprofits and libraries. TechSoup is high on that list from my vantage point. First, we don't "sell" the products listed on our site.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The Macbook Air has been around since early 2008, and frankly struggled in its first years with poor sales and technical problems. ” What do you think of ultrabooks for nonprofits and libraries? Ultrabooks are light, thin, laptop computers with long battery life and that cost under $1,000. Photo: kenworker.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In 2008, volunteer Casey Sorensen became PCs for People's first executive director. " We are delighted to announce our partnership with this incredible digital inclusion charity, and offer PCs for People computers to charities, churches, and libraries across the land. Going National. He introduced significant innovations.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

David Lee King writes about, talks about, and works around libraries, social media, and digital communities. The nonprofit Story of Stuff Project was created in 2008 to respond to tens of thousands of viewer requests for more information and ways to get involved. Connect with Raven on Twitter at @ravenb and @WinTheNet.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

There was Jaime Kopke's Denver Community Museum , which existed for nine months in a Denver storefront in 2008-9 to celebrate visitors' creations. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. They come up with a theme, a date, and invite people to come.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Eligible nonprofits and libraries can request a special NOZA discount through the end of this week. topped $307 billion in 2008. Where do major gifts come from? Major gifts come from three primary sources: (1) Corporations (2) Foundations (3) Individuals. Here is where the money came from: Corporations: $14.5 billion (5%).

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Throughout the month of May, TechSoup is sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. Sharpen Your Website! “Our website was a mess,” Lisa said. “I would open it and just get depressed and close it again.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. All the participants were asked to write one-page position papers about museums and libraries in the 21st century.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

2) Create a Video Library Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 , stressed the importance of creating a video library. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com In terms of editing, most computers younger than 8 years have some sort of editing software and, again, that is really all you need for most web videos. All rights reserved.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. Large-Format Photography.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. Large-Format Photography.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. " I have to add that one of my favorite and most prescient predictions from 2006 was by TechSoup for Libraries contributor, Phil Shapiro.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Nonprofit Organization libraries : The Nonprofit FAQ answers common questions that organizations run into and there are resources for all kinds of staff from webmasters to volunteer managers. By September 2008, after years of steady growth, these little drops were covering 70% of our budget.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Yohannes Gebregeorgis "Moved by the lack of children's books and literacy in his native Ethiopia, Yohannes Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads , bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children."

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The theory is that people who do not see value in paying for an individual chunk of CE will see value in paying for access to a large library of online CE – like the Spotify model of online education. Nor is the subscription likely to be very popular if you don’t actually have a large library of online CE. We are all for it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer. Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

For example, our 2008 major human rights grants from the Oak Foundation and the John D. As an example, in 2008, we accounted for $1,772,761 in capitalization of a major website upgrade for our Bookshare library. Department of Education that enables us to provide the Bookshare library services for free to all qualifying U.S.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5. Tuesday, March 17th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Room 10 March 13, 2009 | Allyson Kapin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0: All rights reserved.

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