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Help us celebrate software developers who create open source apps and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use

Charity Village

The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest honours the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Tony never had a chance to fulfill his computing dreams, so the prize was created to help others realize theirs.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Overview

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And I’ll highlight where the comparisons are interesting and compelling, especially for nonprofit organizations. Comparisons of open source vs. proprietary development environments (i.e. Other web applications. PHP vs.NET and that sort of thing.). PHP vs.NET and that sort of thing.). CRM/ERP more generally.

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An Open Source Website Personalization Tool for Mission-Driven Organizations

Forum One

As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. The content relevant to them is served to them directly. We look forward to sharing an update soon! Potential and growth of our tool.

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Introducing a New Community-Built Application Supported by Salesforce.org Commons

Saleforce Nonprofit

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. For example, you can use DLRS when you want to display the sum of paid payments related to an Opportunity, or count the number of student applications or current board members at your organization. Built by the Community, for the Community.

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Senior Full Stack Web Application Developer

Kindful

About Kindful Kindful was founded with a simple idea in mind: nonprofits should be able to spend less time focused on their database and more time focused on their mission. Job Description Our objective here at Kindful is to make our nonprofit customers successful in their missions. You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Can open source software save organizations money?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Next year, given what is likely to be a grim funding year, nonprofit organizations are going to be hunting for ways to save money on technology. One question that will inevitably be asked: can free and open source software save organizations money? Build it with open standards so the data is readable in perpetuity.