Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As nonprofits frantically recruit new hires, the people and communities these organizations serve suffer even more. Turning over this much decision-making power to tech tools has never happened before. . As a result, smart tech is becoming available and affordable to everyday people and organizations. We have been here before.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 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 #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 4, 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 #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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MARCH 27, 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 #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list. Be Helpful.

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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 tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 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 #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. I’ve got to catch up. For you purists: don’t get all upset. Yes, it’s a Windows product.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

I also referenced the report in my latest presentation slides about social media use by individuals in nonprofit organizations.). Resources or capacity are still an issue - the big organizations do better with online actions. 50% of organizations had databases that included 40% or more of inactive supporters. Download Reports.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Social media has changed the marketing world, and Facebook Ads for nonprofits are an easy tool to increase your organization’s presence online. Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 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 #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. Be Helpful. Shame on me.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 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 #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 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 #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. Be Helpful. It’s quite amazing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 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 #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Be Helpful. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 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 #6: Joomla! If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nonprofit organizations have the ability to connect and mobilize individuals. According to Frumkin (2002), nonprofit organizations are “ideal vehicles for foraging networks of weak ties that link people together.” Nonprofit organizations can be mindful of additional barriers and identify trusted facilitators to bridge gaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and share opportunities to give or volunteer for social causes using social networking strategies. I've blogged about his webinars about selecting person-to-person fundraising or working with group fundraising tools. He has identified nine goals for 2009.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When I had surgery in 2009, I used eHop e as an online tool to help me stay in touch with my community and ask for help. It was an awe-inspiring experience ,* although eHope was probably a much more powerful tool than I needed. Use of this online tool is free, and the host organization is a nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. Amid his top picks, David harped on a few tools and sites in particular David's top picks include: Social Networks. File Sharing. User Experience.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For many organizations, the terms "transparency" and "accountability," when uttered in the same sentence as "indirect/administrative costs," mean only one thing: it's time for another round of belt-tightening. How GrantStation Can Help Your Nonprofit Fund Administrative Costs.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. Stated another way, organize and simplify. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve helped organizations with case statement, board development, strategic planning, and fundraising campaigns. Achieve leverages technology in everything it does to cost-effectively help the nonprofit organizations it works with. Like Achieve, Qgiv exists to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." Download the December 2009 version of this list here. Also available in French and Spanish)."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Organization Size: Medium. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. at 4:21 pm We would love it if you’d add us (Home Free Organization) to your blogroll…we will do the same…thanks! Be Helpful. 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

It's a great way to spend our last bit of time together while highlighting some of the individuals and organizations shaping our sector. He not only pushes his organization to integrate technology into its strategy, he helps the entire sector do the same by sharing relentlessly, and smiling while he does it.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Organizations are always making miracles happen on tight budgets. Once you have a good understanding of your expenses, consider the following 8 ways cutting costs could help: 1. It might be possible to keep staff members on a contract basis until your organization can sustain employees long-term. Above all, be gracious.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. Are they the best possible actors for the mission the organization seeks to achieve? Who is involved?

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

We just released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study with our fantastic friends at M+R Strategic Services. To help folks get started, we hosted a release party. Local organizations are getting on the bus. Then tell me: how does your organization compare? Get your copy of the report and take a listen to the webinar.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? 2 Jack 08.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations. Be Helpful.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Here are our picks for the top donation platforms for nonprofits to help optimize your digital fundraising efforts. We have done our best to clearly map out the fees and strengths of each platform to help nonprofits find the best fit. We’re asked this question a lot at Whole Whale. Online revenue is up for nonprofits. Click To Tweet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. There are some fabulous sessions proposed for the 2009 NTC , running the whole gamut of nonprofit technology, from planning to Web 2.0, Be Helpful. open source, etc. It might be interesting. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

, and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools.

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