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JANUARY 29, 2009

I love the way they put it on their award information site: Good deeds do get rewarded! The award winner will be announced at April 28th at the 2009 NTC. (By Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz Pizzigati awards Open Source 09NTC. The application deadline for this year’s prize: March 2nd, 2009.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

Results of Impact Labs have included resources like the award-winning Financial Aid Chatbot, which helps create a more equitable experience around applying for financial aid, and Service Match to help case managers streamline referrals for services to help people experiencing homelessness. Opens new window. About the Author.

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MARCH 6, 2015

Every year at NTC, we announce all kinds of award winners. Every year we are wowed by the winners of the DoGooder National Video Awards and this year was no exception. We love getting to acknowledge the winners live on stage, but we also want to shout out their praises online for anyone who wasn''t there to applaud in person.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 3, 2015

Two weeks ago, I joined the Salesforce Foundation in a new role as Open Source Manager. Does "Open Source Community Manager" mean that you're the official bff of Nonprofit Starter Pack users? So I opened a trial account and started reading and learning and the more I read and learn, the more I like what I see.

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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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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

That's why we were particularly pleased to learn that Yaw Anokwa -- a lead developer on Open Data Kit , a modular set of tools helping nonprofits around the world collect data, via mobile phones, on everything from deforestation to human rights violations -- has won the fourth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field. Helen Keller, who worked for AFB for many years, was on the original award board for its first twenty years, starting in 1937.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. The bot has become an important channel for the organization’s emergency response communications and was nominated for a shorty award in 2018.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 23, 2010

The prize will award $10,000 to an open-source software developer whose work is helping nonprofits succeed. The Tides Foundation is accepting nominations for the annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. Nominations will be accepted through February 1, 2010.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Although I hate the idea of talking over lunch, I'm glad that two years ago, under former ED Katrin Verclas, we added the awards ceremony to our closing lunch at the NTC. Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. The 2009 award was presented to the American Red Cross.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Today I’m delighted to share the exciting news about the new award we just received from OSEP to build upon Bookshare’s success and significantly improve access for students with disabilities. This innovative approach is now opening up completely new horizons. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference. Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The event kicked off with opening remarks by Joan Garry , an industry veteran and champion for the nonprofit sector, which led directly into the first panel discussion on the topic of climate. . From Climate Change to Navigating the Unexpected. Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud , Powered by Amazon Web Services was also announced.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2010

The prize will award $10,000 to an open-source software developer whose work is helping nonprofits succeed. Tags: Open Source Software. The Tides Foundation is accepting nominations for the annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. Nominations will be accepted through February 1, 2010.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 3, 2004

Benetech's Dr. Patrick Ball has just been awarded the ACM's 2003 Lawler Award for humanitarian contributions using computer technology. It's exciting to have one of our own honored by the technology community, and for the open source software that Patrick has so passionately advocated for.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) He asks : “Will the world notice a diminished Sourceforge?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

billion text messages each day with an open-rate that currently hovers at about 90%. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. They also send 2.5 The Mobile Web is not the Next Big Thing. It’s already here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is now officially open! Winners will receive cash awards of $5,000 (first place), $3,000 (second place), and $2,000 (third place). Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Also related to international development, check out our " Development Commons dot org " wiki site devoted to how open-source and open-content strategies can help advance progress on development issues.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Some of the most impressive ones include: Blue Drop Awards 2013 - Best Non-Profit Websites. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Don’t forget to vote for the DoGooder TV Nonprofit Video Awards. Sounds like MPower plans to get a lot more open as time goes on.

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Achieve

JANUARY 24, 2017

Our team decided to leverage the extensibility and scalability of the Drupal open-source content management system to ensure the site could handle the sustained load of 24-hours of giving. Achieve launched phase one of the new. Great Give. website on Jan. In 2016 the Great Give raised $2.7M for 505 local nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice. My next question was about being the first NTEN Award winner in Canada. " Resources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? – 12:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

Its award-winning apps help underserved youth find meals and a safe space, facilitate safe shelter for abuse and trafficking survivors, and deploy volunteers to time-sensitive community needs. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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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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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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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice. My next question was about being the first NTEN Award winner in Canada. " Resources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Since then, the nonprofit has won other awards, such as the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. These folks do astonishing work. For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. In 2003, he won a "Top Technology Innovator" award from InfoWorld for developing a retail reporting system for Goodwill thrift. Think of it as MS Project lite.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here's the lowdown: Apps for America will award developers for the best applications, based on data from Sunlight and its partners, that make Congress more accountable, interactive, and transparent. > There's also a second place award of $5,000, four third place awards of $1,000 each, and 10 honorable mentions at $100 each.

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