Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. For Medic , a nonprofit organization with a team that’s spread out across six different continents, Slack serves as their virtual headquarters.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

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." in cash for their organizations!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I recently buttonholed founder and CEO Charles Best to get a first-hand account of the groundbreaking charity and its model for funding public school projects around the country. Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. It’s built on the simple concept of donating your loose change to charity and thus far almost 400 nonprofits have signed up and been approved. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. It is a must download!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. Ten campaigning tips for lobbying MPs - "nfpSynergy has a wealth of back-data regarding MPs' opinions of charities and their campaigns, comments from those who work in this area and experience of the sector.

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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.) Platform neutral APIs tend to work against these charity capacity building goals.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. Major web design competitions often have charity categories. The 2013 Activism awards go mainly to charities and include: Change.org.

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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. From midnight to midnight, supporters will be able to donate and amplify the impact their charity has on the community. Great Give.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

There will be five tables, each focused on a different list growth strategy – and you’ll get to visit them all to learn from list growth gurus Care2, Rad Campaign, Charity Dynamics, and Beaconfire. Register now! Register now!

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

Charity Engine’s article on multi-channel fundraising states it well: “Your website is the heart of your organization’s multi-channel fundraising campaign. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Ways Your Website Can Support A Multi-channel Strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link]. Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. is an open-source alternative that is based on many of the same. What features are most important in making your selection — price, open-source, cloud-hosted?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Thankfully, what was once incredibly expensive is now much more accessible thanks to the rise of open source software and cloud computing. Read about The Guardian and TechSoup Global's seminar on big data for nonprofits and charities. To better serve their mission, nonprofits need to take advantage of the power of big data.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 4, 2012

Celebrities Competing Online For Donors - TheNonProfitTimes : A dozen celebrities representing as many charities have one month to raise as much money as they can with an ultimate prize of winning $25,000. Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the open source web browser Firefox, started each celebrity-charity team off with a $5,000 donation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The InterHealth OPEN Initiative has brought together a cadre of famous artists including Youssou N'Dour, Nas, Peter Buck from R.E.M. (a a fav of mine), Duncan Sheik, and others to help raise awareness and support of putting open-source software technologies directly in the hands of health care and aid workers around the globe.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

It provides a chance for charities to network with IT experts. It is also a good place for people in nonprofit technology startups, many of them open source projects, to meet with the nonprofit technology community. The Relationship Between NTEN and TechSoup Global. The Relationship Between NTEN and TechSoup Global.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

The initial study was focused on how Millennials engaged with causes and charities and how they contributed. We decided in 2016 to pivot toward open source content management systems as the foundation of our technology platforms. We had built our system well before WordPress became popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2007

At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of Open Source software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. What Is Web 2.0? The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. With an insufficient data structure to support a growing charity, the easy short-cut to data management was to store more information in an ad hoc field – birth dates, family data, alma mater, notes from a meeting, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. If I weren’t making so much money, I couldn’t contribute the substantial amounts I provide for charities. It’s an interesting book, with a basic premise.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

We recommend this resource to libraries and any charity that works with children of any age. One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). A significant number of charities deal with health records in some way. Online Security for Libraries.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has served on multiple charity boards. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Oxford, United Kingdom: The Open Data Event. Monday, November 14, 2016.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. According to research by Adobe, only 3 percent of people find charities by following social media links. Forty percent find charities through plain old web searches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. The BRIDGE to the 21 st Century.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. You can then have the opportunity to cancel a transaction that didn’t come from you or was a mistake.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has served on multiple charity boards. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Ever since the SXSW blog discussion " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social media for social good " I've wanted to play the game with a critical mass of smart people who have a program and social change lens. . I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. Gear and software for people with disabilities is usually provided through charity or from medical supply companies. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Details are here.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. Charity Blog. open source. Leave a Comment. Remember Me?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

The solution we have been exploring is a semi-customized, open source, secure, data collection and analysis application that makes it easier for social sector users to safely gather and use information more efficiently. Traditional aid and charity tend to be unidirectional: the voice of the beneficiary is rarely heard from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

from Sundance where she was busy running around asking celebs to join Six Degrees and getting them sign swag for charity. The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

And for all you people using Four Square , it's also one of the official Check-in for Charity locations (hint: new badge anyone?). Built upon open-source tools, open standards, and best practices, this panel will highlight practical examples of initiatives from private, public and government sectors.".

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