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How a small nonprofit organization survived the Great Recession

ASU Lodestar Center

The year is 2008. Responsibilities fell to the board of directors and executive directors to do something to save their organizations. If one’s work as an executive director of a nonprofit organization is a vocation, a “calling,” the answers to the following questions are likely to be YES!: Defenders of Children. to continue.

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Over The Edge Fundraiser: A Daring Take on Fundraising

Qgiv

As you might’ve guessed, over the edge fundraisers aren’t right for every organization. Over the Edge has been partnering with nonprofits to host rappelling fundraisers since 2008. This type of event gives your organization a lot of exposure, which can drive donations and earn you additional supporters and participants.

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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. I’ve got to catch up. Yes, it’s a Windows product. Yes, it’s written in.NET and C#.

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OpenOffice.org to get a boost

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I happen to think that unless an organization has deeply invested in developing custom Access databases, there aren’t too many reasons left not to switch to OpenOffice.org. and pretty good, and improving fast.) that will be published in Linux Identity Magazine. I hope to start doing OpenOffice.org training soon.

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Open source your Open Social Apps?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. 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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The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

Tech Soup

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Darren reports that this was made possible through the Microsoft software and licenses donated through TechSoup.

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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access).