Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 7, 2011
I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’).
Get Fully Funded
JULY 13, 2021
Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.
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Judi Sohn
AUGUST 25, 2010
For Google Apps administrators, the offerings in the Google Apps Marketplace seems to be a lot of 3rd party tools that pull in gApps data (Docs, Calendar, etc.) You can click on a user name and force reset their password, set nicknames (alternate usernames) and include them in the shared contacts directory (more on that later).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 19, 2008
It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad.
Care2
JUNE 30, 2012
I’d like to see this opened for all nonprofits to add themselves as beneficiaries. is another alternative with similar features, though the implementation doesn’t seem as well designed. This new dedicated app for Google Drive will allow you to edit your Google Docs offline for the first time. Checkon.me
NTEN
APRIL 8, 2011
Alternately, you can also ring a cash purchase or input the number of a card that refuses to swipe. Reconciling the transactions could be easier, but you can download the data from your online Square sales record into an Excel doc. You tap on the photos of the t-shirt and the book to add them to the sales slip. It is magic, right?)
Care2
JUNE 30, 2012
I’d like to see this opened for all nonprofits to add themselves as beneficiaries. is another alternative with similar features, though the implementation doesn’t seem as well designed. This new dedicated app for Google Drive will allow you to edit your Google Docs offline for the first time. Checkon.me
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