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The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity

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Think of how we communicate every day: text messages are global standards regardless of carriers; the transmission of email is a global standard irrespective of whether or not it arrives in Gmail, Outlook, or some other service. This is genuinely a good thing. What is ordinary in the corporate world is heretical in the nonprofit world.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. Many take a cut of the donations you receive.

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Interview with "Cloud Surfing" Author Thomas Koulopoulos

Tech Soup

And even if you haven't, you're likely using cloud-based services in your home or workplace already, such as Gmail, Skype, Dropbox, and more. I often hear people say that [the] cloud is just the old time-sharing model used in the mainframe era. How do you compare cloud computing to the mainframe era from years ago?

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?) What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Join the AI Revolution: Build Your First Low-Code Fundraising App

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Think of how often you use productivity tools such as email rules in Outlook or Gmail. For example, AI can accelerate low-code development by helping you build a workflow or an app just by using natural language, or it can generate content from data using large language models like GPT-4. Did you know you’re doing this stuff already?

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

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We have staff members in three time zones -- and no IT department -- but the Cloud gives us (nearly) maintenance-free infrastructure and real-time collaboration that wouldn't be reasonably possible otherwise. . Code is consumed on a one to many model, and it's a pay for use subscription. The momentum is toward the Cloud.

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Make Sure Your Nonprofit's Communications Are Safe and Secure!

Tech Soup

Create a Threat Model. Below are just a few tools that can help you keep your communications more secure whether you're connecting with individuals, collaborating in a group, or broadcasting your message. ProtonMail works like most web-based email clients, such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail, but with end-to-end encryption.