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Better Together: eTapestry and Constant Contact Team Up

Tech Soup

Constant Contact is a broadcast email service that offers a variety of email list management tools, email templates, and reporting features to maximize the impact of your organization's email communications. The admin fee for the donation is $60, and both nonprofits and libraries are eligible. are great places to start.

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Community Technology Alliance: Helping Address Homelessness with Mobile Technology

Tech Soup

The CTA saw an opportunity to utilize their huge database of services for homeless and low income households ( Homeless Management Information System - HMIS) to learn more. According to Baez, the CTA created their own survey based on information from their HMIS database and their own research in the Santa Clara community.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). . This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Partnered with Network for Good, if your nonprofit is already in the NFG database, then you have a profile on HelpAttack! Donors can pledge as little as $.01 USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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5 Strategies for Successful Online Charity Auctions

Connection Cafe

This best practice underscores the value of working with a dedicated CRM or database platform to store and analyze data. Broadcast your auction far and wide for maximum impact. Fundraising Letters offers a library of easy templates just for these purposes. Work with an integrated tech stack when possible.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org.

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