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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. Emilio Tavarez. Child Nutrition Programs Manager, Hunger Free America.

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Email is dead … long live Email?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was having lunch with a friend this week, who runs a small advocacy organization in Canada, that relies heavily on the use of email lists. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. Someone else can round up the free services.

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Free (and Cheap) Mass Texting for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

These providers allow for more dynamic segmenting, messaging, and tools for advocacy. They also have great activism click-to-call, VoIP #s and segmentation for message targetting. Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. SecureGive.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Some nonprofit organizations have chosen to halt their advertising or post activity on Twitter and Facebook in response to the tech companies’ harmful policies.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it's fun!

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Conversations.

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Website Fall Fashions - Sleek, Flat and Simple Is In

Tech Soup

. - This is an independent, community-nominated, community-voted event created in 2012 that aims to publicly recognize the excellent individuals and organizations that have maximized the capabilities of Drupal open source content management system. The best advocacy website is Global Zero developed by Advomatic & Free Range.