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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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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. Fund-Master and GiftMaker Pro), of late, they’ve acquired companies and kept their products going (Team Approach, eTapestry, PIDI, Kintera). Here my perspective.

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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. Requests stay up for five months or until they’re fully funded. About two-thirds get fully funded before they hit their expiration date.

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This week in FOSS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding. So what does this mean for you, o struggling nonprofit organization? This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available. Be Helpful.

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Kickstarter: Funding Creativity in a New (Old) Way

Museum 2.0

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. How would you fund it? Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Funding goal. Kickstarter is an "all or nothing" funding scheme. Pledge levels.

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Technology in the Arts Conference:Funding Technology Projects

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session was called "Funding Technology Projects" and was moderated by Jeff Forster. Find your peers who are in a similar situation and it doesn't have to be another arts organization. That's why Open Source is a good way to go - you don't get locked in. Business for Open source a.)

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Using Social Media to Share Research

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, I bumped into Patricia Martin who just completed a fascinating report on Millennials online engagement with arts organizations and we had a conversation about this topic and the findings from her report. to fund research in an attempt to address critical social problems. Every year over 7,800 grants are made in the U.S.