Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need. Our NetSquared leaders are currently holding free events in 24 countries and meet with their local TechSoup partners to collaborate on how to best support nonprofits in their country.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

If you weren't able to join us in San Francisco last week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we've got a recap of some of the happenings here on our blog. 12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from Ariel Gilbert-Knight. 12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from Ariel Gilbert-Knight.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. Follow us on Twitter: @socialbrite.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. All of this software is free and much of it is open source.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Prior to joining Earthjustice, Peter spent seven years serving as IT Director at Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo & Marin Counties, Inc. Think of it as MS Project lite.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Billy Bicket got the first Net Tuesdays going in San Francisco. What Is Web 2.0? Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. With Service Net, it is a great example of a collaborative technology solution.”. Kelly Batson is senior vice president for community impact at UWBA, which operates 211 in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Napa, and Solano counties. From benetech.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

And so many people forget that these key elements at the heart of Silicon Valley, of the tech industry, are controlled by nonprofits created open standards, open interfaces and open source code – almost all developed collaboratively to solve a common problem.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

I got a chance to attend one of the cutting edge conferences we have out here in San Francisco to get a sense of how nonprofit technology fits in to the leading edge of innovation. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. But Botsman overlooks some of the tensions found in the collaborative economy.

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