Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. The first event Art for Impact planned using CiviCRM yielded $2,000 in one night.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

As we are getting ready to welcome a new VP of Engineering, I’d like to acknowledge and thank Gerardo for his many contributions and their lasting impact on the lives of the people we serve. 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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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Today, Salesforce.org is excited to announce the release of the Salesforce.org Community Impact Report 2021. Our fourth annual report shows how our customers are using the resources Salesforce.org provides to create and increase their social impact. Our Approach to Social Impact. We work to close the impact gap in three ways: 1.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. Join us in this session to learn what responsible AI could mean for your school.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

They fight for what matters to them, and they collaborate within their pride. In the process, we create spaces for us all to come together, collaborate, and share ideas and inspiration, enabling us all to work together as a Salesforce.org community to make lasting change. Why a Lion? Lions are both protective and social.

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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? Join our team and help us make more impact than ever! Do you like taking on big challenges? We’ve got plenty of them for you to tackle.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. First, I’ll cover our biggest fundraising effort of the year: individual philanthropy is crucial to us; it’s the portion that makes 10X impact possible!

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

This is where a well-orchestrated omnichannel marketing strategy has the potential to have a significant and positive impact on your audience’s overall user experience as well as your organizational goals. Let’s look at 5 tips to help your mission-driven organization create real impact with omnichannel marketing.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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. Many do not have open-source code, but some, like Umbraco, do. How will this impact your budget?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Our board and I are looking forward to Betsy leading Benetech to even greater impact. Connected Civil Society: Applying machine learning and computer vision to document human rights violations and promote accountability in Syria in collaboration with the UN.

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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. Please join us in creating this transformative impact.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When I worked at Salesforce, I volunteered with many front-line anti-trafficking organizations around the world, and I saw the scale of the crisis and its human impact first-hand. Its purpose was to assess the role of technology in tackling modern slavery and identify ways to improve our impact.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Collaboration Review and provide input into software specifications. Collaborate with other developers to ensure (1) we are taking the best approach in a given situation (2) we are doing things in a consistent way (3) we share information. Create technical specifications and technical designs. You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Technology Is an Enabler To Make Moments of Impact Possible. But technology is a critical enabler to make more of those moments of impact possible. Organizations are able to react across all touchpoints to deliver engagement, collaboration, and data intelligence in real-time. Making the World Better, Together.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

But, what it should really say is, “we may be non-profit, but we are not non-impact.&# Or at least something like that! maybe you want to join forces for a longer-term project for real impact. What is the Impact? Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Also, ensure that your web design partner’s working style matches your team’s to facilitate a smooth, effective collaboration.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Global nonprofit measures and shares its impact in real time. million in one day.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I have followed the development of Social Actions over the last few years and really believe in the work that Peter, Christine and the community have done to shape a collaborative, open tool that benefits so many people and organizations in all kinds of ways. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

In this Huffington post, Andrew Turner talks about how NGOs can increase effectiveness by accessing, analyzing, visualizing, and collaborating around data. Open Data for Social Change. We Need Open Data To Change The World. In this post, Lucy Bernholz describes how sharing open data in the social sector can increase impact.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There are many reasons why opting for a free fundraising solution could be tempting to your nonprofit: You might be curious about the impact that paid donor database solutions can have on your nonprofit. This can streamline everything from new employee onboarding to cross-team collaboration and secure file sharing.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

Instead of having to search for sparse sources of information, we’re now left with the opposite issue—sifting through ample resources to find the most trustworthy and impactful information. . The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The digital storytelling approach powerfully illustrates all that NRDC has accomplished—from landmark legislation to practical changes that benefit the environment and local communities every day—to inspire audiences to support its work into the future and continue to grow its impact. The Vilcek Foundation. Excellence – Website for Art.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

My collaborator, JD Lasica , at SocialBrite has just posted the interview and details below. DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Our work has significant impact on users, partners, and the fields of social enterprise, human rights, disability and the environment. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. Our users are the primary drivers of our technology development.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The process took us longer than we anticipated, but that is due in large part to the great things we’ve been able to achieve from the collaboration between the technology and the analytical sides of our work. During that time, HRDAG has also grown to a place where it can be self-sustaining.

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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. It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2021

NTEN is proud to be the new steward of The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , elevating and celebrating open source development for social impact work. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Open Source for Social Impact.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation. Women and Open Source and Identity. As you know, we're just about done collecting your great session ideas for the 11NTC right now (deadline: August 27). It's a balancing act -- literally.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Los Angeles, California: Can We Measure Social Impact? Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Nonprofits Collaborating to Build Capacity, Public Presence, and Business. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Friday, October 14, 2016.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Through this R&D Center, we are working to revolutionize the availability of accessible images and tactile graphics by targeting standards and developing open source tools that help close the gap between what technology can do automatically and what requires expert human work.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? – 12:00 p.m. in the Microsoft Lounge. – 10:00 a.m.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

While other studies have ranked entire states on health factors, this site is the first to showcase the impact of multiple health factors in every U.S. explaining the indicators used to determine the rankings and how each impact's overall health. See Virginia's table.) rate of people dying before age 75).

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Tags: Collaboration Environment Technology. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Tags: Technology Environment Collaboration. Global Energy Observatory ?

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