Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2011

tags: CMS opensource report toblog. CUBRID – Open Source Database Management System Optimized for Web. tags: opensource database toblog. Open Source ETL designed to bridge the gap between business and IT. MailChimp | drupal.org. tags: drupal modules toblog. Hudson Continuous Integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

About Kindful Kindful was founded with a simple idea in mind: nonprofits should be able to spend less time focused on their database and more time focused on their mission. Responsibilities Full-stack development Work within all layers of our products, with an emphasis on backend components, API, and the database.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. I’ve also been compiling a list of every donor database I come across at https://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1661. Provide strong reporting and analytic tools.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. However, many nonprofits operate with tight budgets.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

"" Free Access: Nonprofit Tagline Database & Report | Nonprofit Marketing | Getting Attention – "Don't miss the just-released, all-new Nonprofit Tagline Database with 4,800+ organizational, program, fundraising campaign and special event taglines. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Further, funders disincentivize risk when they require lengthy applications and reports that may not always showcase reality or the organization’s ability to create impact. One organization had the capacity to support community members, but they weren’t able to fill their open spots. The other organization was over capacity.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Keep in mind, however, that all CRMs and donor databases are different – each has its own database structure, definitions of key terms, and attributes for handling certain data types. Data governance represents ‘rules of the road’ for your donor database. As a general rule of thumb, though, use the importers.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

The first thing to understand about membership database software is that the name itself is pretty misleading. It’s actually a combination of two different functions: The database itself that holds information on your members and the platform that allows you to do things with that information.

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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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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

This goes for laptops as well as any servers or databases. Report security incidents, loss, or theft as soon as reasonably possible to the appropriate personnel in your organization. ClamAV is a popular open-source option. DBAN is one popular open-source option to assist with this. Want more tips like this?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2010

So with a few vacation days tacked on to my itinerary, I set out from New York to the Land of Woz — and the home of TechSoup — to learn a little bit more about the world's leading open-source CRM platform and the people who use it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. Trish Perkins (TP): I was working with a disability nonprofit in Nepal that wanted to put together a database of people who needed their services. They can also get the reports right from the survey.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economic growth and almost 11 million American jobs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Want to help assemble evidence used to convict dictors of war crimes? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Here are some of the most common big-ticket platform tools and examples within an effective marketing technology stack: A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform to manage your global database. Business Intelligence tools for analytics reporting, projection analysis, and data visualization to effectively manage your data and insights.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2012

tips and tricks for customizing CiviCRM and building your own reports? CiviCRM is open-source, web-based software that. CiviCRM is open-source, web-based software that. CiviCRM integrates directly with the popular open-source content management systems – Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. Data from the CRM is manually reported and put up on the CMS. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. There will be way more on this in later posts. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Soon, we’ll be updating the primer , releasing a report on our survey, starting a training and consulting program, doing a webinar series … phew! I’m spending about 1/2 of my time being Coordinator of NOSI. As you’ve probably seen, we’ve been pretty busy lately. Lots happening! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. The APIs will be without cost. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

He advocates a Feedback Principle of Public Reporting where organizations publish beneficiary feedback so that the information flow is not top down, but instead people centered. Open Source philanthropy data big data' He also says that it focuses on service availability and eligibility requirements rather than those it serves.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. Data from the CRM is manually reported and put up on the CMS. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Not about how many hours you spent at the client office, or how many reports you wrote. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&#

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Reporting CE issuance to accreditors is also a mess (are you familiar with PARS? ). There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. As we know, these transactions are often managed in the most labor-intensive way possible.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

Salsa CRM includes comprehensive fundraising software with a donor management database and your choice of online engagement tools and starts at $249 a month. From event management to ticketing to registration and checkout to payments to reporting and analytics, you’re covered. And of course, you can automate your marketing!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Constituent data is scattered across the organization, residing passively in so many databases that it is nearly impossible for staff or volunteers to ever have a complete, near-real time view of any constituent who donates, visits an office, attends an event, or participates in any other way. Your system should recognize them immediately.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members’ names. Don’t forget your Constituent Database.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. in combination with the other delivery methods tailored to your particular audience and message, such as reports, newsletters, fact sheets, etc., both electronic and print.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. Map each field from the old database to its corresponding field in the new system, accounting for data format differences and potential transformations.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from" subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool.

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