I get a lot of emails like the following from small nonprofits: We desperately need to get a new donor database and most of them are totally unaffordable!! Looking at the Idealware Low Cost Database report , I find that there are so many considerations that it is quite complicated to make a choice. etc.). This step is not optional.

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access. promise (!) 01.03.07 Guy S.

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s that donor database of yours? December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. and MPower at 0.4%.

Martus allows human rights defenders to create a searchable and encrypted database of sensitive information from witnesses and victims - and back this data up remotely to their choice of publicly available servers. On my second trip to Abuja last October, we conducted a two week intensive training for the NHRC’s own instructors.

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. My first presentation discussed principles of documentation, developing databases, and analysis.

An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more. Yet many organizations don’t pay enough attention to the care and feeding of their databases. Tags: IT Management Security Databases

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access. promise (!) 01.03.07 Guy S.

Pipes (1) Internet , Open API , Programming , nptech Dapper’s first results with nonprofit databases 08.29.06 | 90 2 Comments [link] Dapper%27s+first+results+with+nonprofit+databases 2006-08-29+23%3A33%3A55 Allan+Benamer OK, so I’m trying to use Dapper with all sorts of different non-profit databases. 4) Yahoo!

have just completed two 2-day trainings of human rights NGOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Benetech Human Rights Program was invited to conduct these trainings by the International Center for Transitional Justice which assists countries pursuing accountability for mass atrocities or human rights abuses.