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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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5 Ways To Be A Better Ally

Saleforce Nonprofit

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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Senior Full Stack Web Application Developer

Kindful

The work environment in the Kindful offices is collaborative, communicative, challenging, yet supportive. This could appear in any form such as: providing direction, guidance, or instruction as a senior member of a team, coaching, mentoring, etc. We leverage each other’s diverse perspectives and experiences for success.

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Transform Your Communications & Collaboration With Slack

Saleforce Nonprofit

Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success. As courses progress, Slack is used as the central channel for all course communications, including peer collaboration, speaker announcements, industry news, and mentor feedback. In the 2020 U.S.

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Introducing the Knight News Challenge Garage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Inspired by TechStars and YCombinator , the Garage creates a ( drupal platform) community where current and potential applications for funding can enter their ideas, share comments and peer review, and request mentor support to improve their application before they submit it.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Have an Android device?

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My ICThub Case Study Is Published! Susie's Blog is Famous!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susie Halksworth started to write a blog when she was made responsible for implementing the Advice For Life FOSS project, testing free and open source software for the VCS. mentoring from the computer consultant??? t mentor, he did it all, and is actually the person who has brought in Foss at AFL, not me. Also the ???mentoring