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How This Nonprofit Increased Donations After Switching to Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

We uphold our vision by providing peer-to-peer support, educating people on the issues that are important to the community, and advocating for inclusive policies and laws. Chief Information Senior Manager, PFLAG. Brooke Smith is the chief information senior manager at PFLAG. Here’s where we saw the most immediate improvements.

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Ethics and Responsibility in Technology-for-Good: A Human-Centered Approach

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our networked world has advanced to a point where information technology is touching all aspects of society. However, we have yet to come to grips with what is ethical and what the laws should be in relation to rapidly changing technologies. At Benetech, we regularly grapple with questions related to this issue.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Susie's Blog -- A Nonprofit Techie Who Loves Chocolate and Open Source Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. Susie has a great sense of humor. It started in 1988 with two part time staff (who still run it) and a ??30,000

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

federal law supports braille instruction. As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. Accordingly, U.S.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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Data Digest: Open Data Executive Order, Nonprofit Explorer, Big Data Weaknesses

Tech Soup

Forrester has developed a research and planning tool called the Data Privacy Heat Map to leverage in-depth analyses of the privacy-related laws and cultures in 54 countries. This is essential for an international organisation’s strategies as adhering to privacy and data protection laws becomes more challenging.

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