Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Come join our team of talented individuals who are passionate about building relationships within our team, with our partners, and with our customers that enable Kindful to make a real difference in the nonprofit market with our fully integrated online fundraising CRM. Kindful is a stable, growing SaaS company located in Brentwood, Tennessee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. What is Asterisk, you ask? Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

As a professional in the nonprofit sector, you can absolutely still work to be the best you can be, developing your personal and professional skills and advancing your career along the way. Here at the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance, we’ve dedicated ourselves to professional development in the nonprofit sector. Better fundraising ROI.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ).

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Forum One

MARCH 20, 2024

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. Composable Architecture’s benefits are numerous and the approach has wide-ranging impacts for not only users, but for developers and anyone else within organizations responsible for creating and managing digital experiences.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Build Sustainable Apps to Meet Unique Community Needs.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three recent examples from Forum One’s work with mission-driven organizations show how centering online community engagement allows direct service to key constituencies and builds upon what digital tools can deliver. These experiences offer lessons for organizations of any size to re-imagine what it means to build community online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. We build our tech-for-good products and reach dollar-by-dollar, and therefore every gift makes a difference for the people we serve. To do so, we definitely need your help. billion poor and unbanked.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Are you driven to make a real difference from a leadership position in the open source community, at the heart of Silicon Valley and at the unique intersection of technology and social change? Brand career hiring job nonprofit open source recruiting social enterprise social entrepreneur tech4good VP of Engineering'

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

Whether it’s community services, donor relations, governance, volunteer management, or communications, data plays a critical role in telling the story and uncovering the insights required to develop a response. . DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. Opens new window.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Yesterday, I spent the day in Manhattan, at the UNICEF building, with a bunch of folks passionate about the technology in mobile phones, and the ways to use that technology for good. Smartphones haven’t made it into most of the developing world, nor have 3G networks. Globally, what you can basically depend on is SMS.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Selecting the right Content Management System (CMS) for your nonprofit website is crucial in building and managing a successful online presence. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. As a result, we weren’t equipping developers with a platform that allowed for more accurate location- and issue-based searches. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to? Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three recent examples from Forum One’s work with mission-driven organizations show how centering online community engagement allows direct service to key constituencies and builds upon what digital tools can deliver. These experiences offer lessons for organizations of any size to re-imagine what it means to build community online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I keep being surprised by how frequently I hear clients tell me that a vendor has suggested they “build them a CMS,&# or by proposals from vendors that include custom building a CMS. I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website. The web software landscape has changed dramatically over the years.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available. Build Relationships, Fund Impact with Fundraising Solutions. Build Trusted Relationships, Working Together to Make Change with Program Management Solutions. Interested in learning more?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We’re honored to work with over 51,000 organizations as they advance their missions and build a better future. Open Source Commons : Benefit from a community of talented developers who volunteer their time and effort to contribute trusted, innovative, open-source solutions that serve all of us.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

Founded nearly a decade ago, CiviCRM is now being used by more than 10,000 nonprofits worldwide, with over 15,000 members that help to generate the software’s development, and has been translated into over 20 languages. civiCRM community Community CRM Open Source Open Source IT Staff'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. Bad Blogger! (I

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

When we use AI to help draft a grant proposal—in a tool currently under development—we must consider the potential that AI-generated language could be harmful and offensive. Guidelines for building AI tools for good Building ethical AI requires an interrogation of the data you plan to use for training and evaluation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Some great data resources are featured this week, along with telling insight on the use of big data for global development and the use of open data by citizens. Big Data and Global Development. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. Composable Architecture’s benefits are numerous and the approach has wide-ranging impacts for not only users, but for developers and anyone else within organizations responsible for creating and managing digital experiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2010

What I didn’t say is that a number of shops that have done Drupal/SF integration for production sites chose not to use the contributed modules – they built (or are building) their own custom Salesforce/Drupal integration modules. What we lose: Complete control over development process and direction. An easier upgrade path.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. But for now, and until I change my mind (I like to keep my options open), this blog will be inactive. I know that this isn’t falling totally on deaf ears, but some days it does feel that way. Was this blog a success?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Build a Rails app, and deploy it on Heroku. As someone who has managed to learn some Apex , which is, frankly, somewhat of a monster of a programming language, it’s pretty clear that it’s not super easy to build complex apps using it. Heroku is cloud Ruby on Rails. It’s pretty sweet.

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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. In the next phase, we will continue to work with the community to build out these ideas. and supporting small farmers in remote areas globally.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We love SMS because it boasts a 99% open rate, and users are more likely to respond. We’ll break down tools that you can use for free/low-cost mass texting , text-to-give fundraising , tools for larger budgets , and tools if you have a developer Note that the following lists were chosen based on upfront pricing and reputation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. 2 admin 11.10.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there…. Case, and her….

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Showcasing your non-profit’s history helps to establish its stability, to build trust, and to communicate the general development of the organization and its mission. Tags: application Non-profit technology nptech open source timeline website websites Widgets. read more ).

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