Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. More adoption means more developers involved, more users helping, more resources available.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

2007 - America's Second Harvest (now Feeding America): Implemented the Choice System (CS), a web-based tool, which allows members to bid on specific product donations they wish to acquire and distribute to their community agencies. Past Technology Leadership Award Recipients.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I even remember writing a grant to some federal agency that probably no longer exists to help create a local infrastructure to get nonprofits online. It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. When was that?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More FUD from Redmond May 18, 2007 I hear, in my head, the famed quote from Rodney King: “why can’t we all just get along?&# It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 10, 2005

At the same time as the patent office is granting business method patents that everyone knows have tons of prior art, they are busy rejecting trademarks, based on who knows what, exactly. Case in point: the organization " Dykes on Bikes " was denied a trademark of their name because the word "dyke" was vulgar.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Prior to his current role, he founded a software consulting company and led software development for projects for the Department of Defense . Team Rubicon Inc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

We also have a few major grants to continue working on this integration stuff, expanding it to include other complimentary services such as online advocacy and more. Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. I’d love to see similar code released for Drupal. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

At Omidyar Network there’s been an effort to write proposals for 9 $5,000 grants. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog. I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Most of the administrative problems are: 1) using an outdated versions, 2) using a module before it is “tried and true&# , 3) using the PHP/FullHTML input filters that specifically allows for dangerous output code, and 4) not correctly setting permissions for the file system and database grants. 4 Alexander Limi 04.04.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! By Heather McLeod Grant, Monitor Institute (and co-author of Forces for Good). Heather is a published author, speaker, and advisor to high-impact organizations; she recently joined the Monitor Institute as a senior consultant.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Kathleen Rogers has been the NOZAsearch managing director and product manager since 2007. She has worked in healthcare, politics and government, and technology for more than 20 years and appreciates working with nonprofit fundraisers and philanthropy consultants who use NOZA philanthropy data every day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

it is particularly sad because its still virtually impossible to spend grant money on GNU/Linux support, people like to fund shiny hologram boxes. Because most people will only use what they are familiar with. your message will justify them. its like a path in the woods, the more people travel down it the easier the path gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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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. 13 Diego 11.04.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

This includes many, many schools, community groups, and grassroots nonprofits that embraced the free service since it opened its doors in 2007 and will now be forced to pay, or relocate their communities, or say farewell. Last week, Ning, announced a complete end to free services for its users.

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Grants are an essential part of the nonprofit landscape, providing a significant percentage of the average nonprofit’s annual revenue. If you’re like most organizations, you depend on a mixture of grants, major gifts, sponsorships, and individual donations collected through fundraising campaigns and events. Grant Funding Sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

The Case Foundation was a pioneer in designing and implementing social giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge in 2007 and 2009 which inspired many nonprofits to experiment and incorporate these practices as illustrated above.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and PR/Marketing An excellent post from Chris Andreson on Long Tail PR: How To Do Publicity Without A Press Release (or the Press) Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. session during the Legal Services Conference Technology Initiative Grant Conference.

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MAY 4, 2022

Nonprofits may consider hiring a consultant that specializes in DEI practices for the workplace. Some organizations that depend on government funding, like grants, tend to limit the diversity of board members. She currently works as a grant coordinator for an open space authority in California. & Winters, M. & McCoy.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Taproot Foundation : Every year, hundreds of nonprofit organizations rely on the Taproot Foundation’s award winning Service Grant program to provide millions of dollars worth of pro bono marketing, HR, IT, and strategy management consulting services that better equip them to tackle our society’s toughest challenges.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

The only costs incurred will be from consultative services if the nonprofit doesnt have in-house developers. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting. SH: Convio doesnt charge any extra licensing fees for Open APIs, so theyre free. Heller delivers a seamless end-to-end customized connector for Convios clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

This article was originally posted on Working Wikily at [link] by Heather McLeod Grant: Heather McLeod Grant, senior consultant at the Monitor Institute and a principal contributor to Working Wikily A published author, speaker, and advisor to high-impact organizations, Heather is the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, (..)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''m amazed at how well most of the answers in this post hold up two-plus years later (though I would revise my answer to #8 if I were writing this today). The Museum 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

P.S. Granted this post is a bit old, and cake has matured quite a bit even over such a short period of time, but I figured it’d be nice to share more info for any of your readers. Not to mention the excellent console tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

This was for all the good reasons: computers are cheap, support is expensive, and it would cost more time and money to diagnose and fix a computer than replace it – so replacing computers on a regular schedule would actually decrease IT costs. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. What is going on for them? Are they angry?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

November 2010 Fundraising Survey The first Nonprofit Research Collaborative fundraising survey is based on completed questions from 2,349 charities, 163 foundations, and 386 grant makers. 53% of all organizations that reported a decrease in contributions from January to September of 2010 reported drops in foundation grant dollars.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The Atlantic Philanthropies have made grants totaling more than $5 billion as of December 2009. Their online grant database gives people an interactive and innovative way to see the programs they fund. That’s exactly the plan of the Atlantic Philanthropies. It’s a thought provoking concept. All Rights Reserved

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. .”- Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 All Rights Reserved

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

There are also some other features, like grants management and case management that are more nascent, but promising for the future. It is a great tool for small to medium-sized organizations who are looking for a CRM to track members and donations, register people for events, and do mass mailings.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And second, I was exhausted from having continued to do consulting and teaching at the same time. I never went back to doing purely communications consulting. In the last 20 years, they have given grants in the amount of almost $60 million to women in 164 countries. One was I had earned two years worth of money in one year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Submitted by Heather McLeod Grant, senior consultant at the Monitor Institute and a principal contributor to Working Wikily. As I discovered, PDF is very much a gathering of the “digerati”: politicos, pundits, journalists, techies, bloggers, consultants, activists, and of course vendors and sponsors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership.

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