Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Oakland, California: Office 365 for Nonprofits — Bay Area! San Francisco, California: Discounted Tickets for Impact Investing: Business Innovation Conversation II. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. North Richland Hills, Texas: Managing Your Biggest Asset: Relationships and Community Engagement.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Los Angeles, California: November Conversations and Connections with Tech4Good. Los Angeles, California: November Conversations and Connections with Tech4Good. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

He is also the founder of Spot.Us, an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge. I just pledged a small amount to fund a story on California's educational system, something I'm very interested in. Dave interviews Beth - Beth interviews Dave ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

Last week in Berkeley, California the Human Rights Center, with the support of sponsors like the John D. Governments and adversarial groups with bigger budgets are often better armed, which might also account for the prevalence of open-source software for these groups, as it is thought of as being more secure in addition to cost-effective.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. San Francisco, California: Marc Smith on Charting Connections in Your Community — SF Online Community Meetup. Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Victoria, British Columbia: Women in Technology Panel #2. Wednesday, February 24, 2016.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. These folks do astonishing work. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2006

I started blogging because I knew that California and Los Angeles were both doing a lot to encourage environmentally friendly practices -- but often, these efforts were unknown to the public. I use Wordpress , mainly because it's open source. Yay open source! Why did you start blogging? What are its pros and cons?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. Fully eight staff members co-founded the organization, but the most well known 350.org It requires very little maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. They do this work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

"The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising. It is being developed at the University of Southern California to help victims of stroke and traumatic brain injury. "The rise of mobile.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

This open-source packaged solution sits on top of Sales Cloud. NPSP, together with Sales Cloud, enables organizations with prebuilt solutions based on typical nonprofit use cases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Eric Rice writes about the digital divide in California, while Web2.0 AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. Freecharity.org.uk Can cell phones ensure a free vote?

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.” This is not a time to be proprietary,” Soward tells Said.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

In 2014, California Family Health Council (CFHC) launched its TeenSource Multi-Media Peer Educators program so that teens themselves could educate their peers in California on safe sex, relationships, and their health rights. These open source applications are helping to make government work better for everyone.

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APRIL 20, 2011

Aashika, the founder and executive director, starting learning about and looking for ways to support the community of survivors when she was studying Anthropology and Political Science at University of California, Berkeley: “When I was in college, I learned of a labor/sex trafficking case right across from my dorm.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

There’s even some strange philanthropy news compliments of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. Just Plain Crazy. TechCrunch.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 2001, we focus on serving the nonprofit sector and provide technology consulting, strategic assessments, print and web design services and open-source CMS implementation. Confluence is a technology and design company, located in Washington DC and Los Angeles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Now, all students and schools can achieve the level of success experienced by one of our student users, Tyler Norwood, a seventh grade student at the Corte Madera School in Portola Valley, California. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Through affiliate activation and strategic partnerships with brands and retailers, the #GivingShoesDay campaign is setting an example of how organizations can harness the power of the open source movement to drive support and awareness for their mission. So how are they doing it?

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Harassmap is a project that utilizes open-source mapping technology to allow women to report incidents of sexual harassment by sending a text message, an email or employing the Twitter hashtag, #harassmap. "It Will these women be tracked down? Can social media actually save lives and create a voice?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid.

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