Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Data Ecosystems

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Not so long ago, nonprofit organizations had software tools, that dealt with specific parts of their organizational process. They had fundraising tools, client management tools, volunteer management tools, HR tools, accounting tools, etc. painstaking export/import processes. painstaking export/import processes.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

CRM (which I am defining rather loosely, rather than tightly, for the purpose of this post – as the tool or set of tools used to track constituents, donations, perhaps even events and volunteers) are arguably the most important technology tools that nonprofits use. Net/MS SQL Server.)

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Next up …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Strategic planning is already something that’s somewhat of a hard sell for organizations. So my first steps are to find some projects to help out with, volunteer for, etc. Methinks its only going to get harder as grants and donations start to dry up. So PHP it is, starting with Drupal. and take it from there.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? at 12:14 am I’m curious about how organizations can use Twitter. Sure, why not.

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). It is important to think about the fact that dollars raised by nonprofit organizations are going to Blackbaud’s investors whose major interest in Blackbaud is the profit it can produce.