Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. Many do not have open-source code, but some, like Umbraco, do. Nevertheless, choosing isn’t simply about popularity.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Similarly, we saw evidence that the model was associating “People of Latin American descent” with “Incarcerated people.” Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We get a lot of RFP (Requests for Proposals) for association and nonprofit website redesigns. We often get asked this question: What is the best content management system (CMS) for association websites? We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We get a lot of RFP (Requests for Proposals) for association and nonprofit website redesigns. We often get asked this question: What is the best content management system (CMS) for association websites? We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. . Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g., models and web and mobile applications), and share these investments with existing sector associations. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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. Lead Associate, Food Security, Save the Children. Currently, she is the Food Security Lead Associate for Save the Children in Arkansas.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Note that carriers do not charge platforms to receive messages so any cost associated with receiving messages is being added by the vendor. Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One received 12 awards in six categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of environmental awareness, health, art, cultural institutions, and associations. The ALS Association. Excellence – Website for Associations.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

An advanced approach looks at personalization in a more holistic way by integrating all your data sources into a comprehensive platform, such as an association management system. If you are looking to integrate a web personalization tool into your digital strategy, learn about Forum One’s open source website personalization tool.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2012

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My project is associated with the ‘Go Read’ Android application. I’m Thushan Ganegedara, a 3 rd year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Slack has become a really invaluable tool for all the instructors to share ideas along the way,” says Punya Mishra, associate dean of scholarship and innovation at ASU. The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. They also wanted to publish unique giving-campaign donation forms and associate the payment to the corresponding campaign in Salesforce.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? ASAY: Importantly, these savings apply to everyone, not merely open source companies/developers. Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

Kern+Lead, The Associated Press, and Harvard - in a collaborative effort to bring an agency-level presence to nonprofits." We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods."

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

For years, the LMS has reigned supreme as the top learning platform for associations. However, as you begin searching for your association’s next solution, you’ll quickly come across a new option on the market— learning experience platforms (LXPs). But, what really is an LXP and how is it different from your typical LMS? Let’s dive in.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

When we convinced Patrick to move his team to Benetech from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and HRDAG became a full-fledged project of Benetech’s Human Right Program, we discussed a three-to-five year timeline to spin off his own human rights group.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Isabella Gonzalez Potter.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Omnichannel marketing anticipates that audiences may start engaging with your organization on one channel, and then move to another as they progress toward an action—such as becoming a member of your association, signing up for your nonprofit newsletter, or registering for a government service.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Have you heard the saying by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are?” We decided in 2016 to pivot toward open source content management systems as the foundation of our technology platforms. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Open Source Commons and Community Sprints , where our Salesforce-savvy community gathers to co-create solutions together. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association from 2018 to 2020 and is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of the American Journal of Evaluation. Morgan Buras-Finlay.

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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.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members Open Source. David wrote this response.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

To better understand big data, Caroline Barelin offered the 4 V’s associated with big data: volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. And big data is exactly that, data so vast, coming from so many different sources and at such speed, that it is incredibly difficult to process. Make Sure Everyone Has Access to It.

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

The platform is a suite of fundraising tools designed for smaller organizations, clubs and associations – the sort of nonprofit that doesn’t have a large budget and leadership is primarily volunteer based, so it turns over frequently. We set out to build a Software as a Service platform for start-up company Booster Pro.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. recently switched all of its desktop computer applications from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Open Office , two open source (free of charge) solutions that can open, modify and save documents in the Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 6 Thomas Taylor 01.16.09

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

To choose the right membership database software for your association, you first need to look at what it should do for your members. Associations with new member renewal rates above 60% report regularly using welcome phone calls to start their new members off on the right foot. That’s a major missed opportunity!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. More orgs will hire CTOs. Technology will finally enter the c-suite of not-for-profit orgs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2012

For more nonprofit- and library-specific apps, also see: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has a nicely curated apps list which includes a section on creating mobile websites, library catalogs, and apps.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

million tax-exempt organizations in the United States, comprised of churches, neighborhood associations, universities and charitable organizations. WordPress.org offers free themes uploaded by the open-source community that you can use. There are more than 1.5

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Less abstractly, the CE business of non-profit associations is threatened by for-profit CE providers that undercut the associations’ prices. What should bother us is the possibility of lower educational value being associated with the flood of cheap CE “products” into the market.

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