Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

TechSoup Global Blogs, Articles, and Webinars. Read TechSoup's Guide to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Editions and Licensing and find out how you can implement Microsoft's donated CRM program at your nonprofit. Here's a selection of their informative articles and blog posts. To cloud or not to cloud?

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Check out William Grassie's article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy out how the Metanexus Institute shaved $176,000 of their annual budget by shifting to cloud based infrastructure. Managing your nonprofit's database is key so you'll need a good CRM to help you manage all your donor relationships. The savings can be dramatic too.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

This Markets for Good article about the Children’s Museum of Manhattan describes how CMOM has collaborated with National Institutes of Health, providing real-time data to develop a health curriculum for young children through an unusually speedy process. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Today we have proudly announced that we are releasing our entire database of volunteer opportunities to outside developers under a Creative Commons license to expand the non-commercial use of our free service. With our decision to open our database of opportunities , we are stepping proudly into a new era of change for VolunteerMatch.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Here’s a quick breakdown of common expenses: Subscription or License Fees: Many CSR solutions operate on a subscription or licensing model. These expenses can vary, but they’re typically a percentage of the subscription or licensing costs. Choose a CSR platform that integrates with a matching gift database.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Thieves stole personal data from Equifax, including birthdates, addresses, drivers’ license numbers, and Social Security numbers from 143 million people. At this point, I think it’s important to remind you that you may have in your database the information of people who live in Europe, and you might not even realize it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

Is our current database meeting our data, tracking and process needs? Leverage the SMALL ORG ADVANTAGE by looking for donated or discounted licenses. Special thanks to Holly Ross at NTEN and John Merritt at the YMCA of San Diego County for adding their insight to this article. Do we have the right tools to fundraise?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Ubuntu As this article states, Ubuntu is a very popular distribution right now, and Canonical is working hard to get Ubuntu in as wide a range of hands as possible. But, as the article linked above says, they don’t have an official affiliate program, so it will take some shoe leather on your part to build the business aspects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Publish brief articles about your selected topic on a consistent basis. New articles appear at the top, so your visitors can easily read what???s or response to your article, while others may link to it or email you privately. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing.

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Forj

MARCH 12, 2021

That article explained the multiple benefits of choosing Salesforce as a foundation for managing the many aspects of the relationship you have with your members. They don’t even need to worry about having Salesforce licenses; it’s encompassed within the licensing they sell. They come with your licensing.”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The donor database tracks all of your supporters’ engagement activities and donation history so that you can make more informed outreach decisions and craft better fundraising requests. Nonprofits that use Salesforce first turn the CRM into a fundraising donor database by downloading the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP).

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Have you recently read an article or attended a webinar where you were told that your data or software had to be in “the cloud”? Likewise, data gathered by the software is stored on a database that is located remotely. Make sense? For more detail, read How Cloud Storage Works on the howstuffworks website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

You run a search, and it yields up results from a database that is regularly updated. You run a search, and it yields up results from a database, but the information is likely to become obsolete quickly. This article by Deborah Elizabeth Finn is published under an Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. So we cut out a lot of things, and in place we focused on producing what we think is a really dynamic format for a printed program: cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

photo by flickr user michale , licensed with CC " BY " I arrived back from the UK only to jump into a car and drive out to Western, MA for a meeting to present an evaluation report I've been working on a for a client. Here's another article describes the issues.). The metaphor of legos came to mind. More about this later.).

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