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CiviCRM: Software Built and Sustained by Community

NTEN

With a modest core team of six, and its founder just winning the 2014 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest at the 14NTC, learn how CiviCRM is helping nonprofit communities worldwide build relationships with their constituents. civiCRM community Community CRM Open Source Open Source IT Staff'

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How This Nonprofit Increased Donations After Switching to Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

This prohibited us from building important relationships with our community, including our donors and volunteers. Integration: We were looking for a CRM that could integrate more easily with the suite of tools we used for fundraising, email marketing, events, and advocacy work. Here’s where we saw the most immediate improvements.

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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. A Food Access Kit to provide food banks and food pantries with a set of out-of-the-box modules and relationships to get them started on Salesforce.

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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. Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection. SecureGive. High-End SMS Services.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Complex family, social, business, corporate, and financial relationships. It could also open the door to an open source project. Here my perspective.

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Benetech's Human Rights Spin-off

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments. Benetech will of course continue the software and technology development that is the primary focus of our Human Rights Program.

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5 Tips for Creating Impact with Omnichannel Marketing

Forum One

Here are some of the most common big-ticket platform tools and examples within an effective marketing technology stack: A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform to manage your global database. Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress.