Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

You can export your donation history into a CSV file, and you can make your reports into PDFs. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. Of course, proprietary software makers use open source software all the time, that’s not the problem. There are no APIs.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

What may have taken months or even years to request via the Freedom of Information Act, often in a machine unreadable format such as a PDF file, now only takes seconds to download as a "comma-separated value" (CSV) file. All data analysis and visualization packages are able to read a CSV file. The Data Source View.

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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. They can also get the reports right from the survey. We have already had some feedback on broader needs, like the ability to upload files and conditional logic, so we have those in the roadmap now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. The human rights technology we eventually built and that anchors our Program— Martus —has since played a crucial role in strengthening the human rights community.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. Share status, links, and files in a microblogging client. Think of it as MS Project lite. Socialcast (or Yammer ). Socialcast is Facebook for organizations.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. O’Reilly New Radar Report: Twitter and the Micro Messaging Revolution. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Email is a critical channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

"Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Freecharity.org.uk

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Even as more reports illustrate the harms of biased tech, nonprofit organizations are also strategically using digital technology’s power to fight inequality and racial injustice at scale. Wendy was part of a federal lawsuit that ASAP filed on behalf of members in an attempt to stop Trump’s anti-immigration policies from going into effect.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. He used a hypothetical microcredit example to demonstrate: xx% of folks who were offered a microloan reported xx% increase in income the following year.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email is a critical channel.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Though Adobe Flash compatibility was phased out at the tail end of 2020, Captivate is still available and able to publish courses as HTML-5 files.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

This technology can: Send outbid notifications Set maximum bids for users Allow users to build a list of “favorite items” Streamline the item checkout process Facilitate the online registration process with multi-guest capability Allow event purchases like raffle tickets Collect data for key reporting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Cybersecurity: Consolidated Zero-Day Citizen Reporting Portal. DHS should partner with commercial companies and government agencies to provide a consolidated portal for citizen reporting zero day vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source code. [Vote for this Idea]. Department of Homeland Security.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Live-streaming is ideal for reporting live from conferences, fundraisers, and protests. Ideal for publishing interactive digital flyers, brochures or annual reports, Simplebooklet is hosted in the cloud thus any edits are automatically changed everywhere your booklet has been published. report back from Wimbledon. Present.me.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Some of the free services I like are the different frames you can put around a photo, text captioning, the ease of sharpening a blurry photo, and a feature under ‘image setting’ that allows you to adjust the file size of the image so you can use it for the web or make it email-able. is a free open source application.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

I wanted to hear more about the Impact Labs experience and product directly from our cohort, so I sat down with Clayton Aldern, Senior Data Reporter at Grist , to get his take on the crisis we’re facing, the needs surrounding it, and the solution he and the cohort designed. About the Authors. Stephanie Zeitz.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Another example of this trend are the smart meters that report the patterns of your electricity usage to the electric company, but that you can also monitor online. Increasingly people there are demanding transparency and an open-source Internet as a necessary condition of democratic society in a deepening information age.

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