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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Isabella Gonzalez Potter. Amit Patel. Managing Director, Nonprofit Group, Accenture.

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10 Popular #Hashtags for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Example Tweet: #FollowFriday || Wildlife Conservation || @ WildlifeTrust @ WildlifeRescue @ JaneGoodallInst @ gorilladoctors @ polarbearsintl @ seaturtle. Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software. You use it to send a shout out to your followers.

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Guest Post by Debra Askanase: Fill the Gap Campaign Crowdsourcing for Citizen Museum Curators

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are the Luce Foundation Center for American Art , you offer the public the ability to become “citizen curators.” The Luce Foundation Center occupies 20,400 square feet of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s space. The Luce Foundation Center is responsible for selecting the art that will fill the gaps.

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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital communications and fundraising campaigns are built. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. The most recent design of the Nature Conservancy’s website is excellent.

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SocialCoding4Good: Mobilizing Technology and Volunteerism for Transformative Impact

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. With a seed grant from the Knight Foundation, we set out to find the answers to these questions.

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When Flexibility Becomes an Operating Principle: Lessons from a Nonprofit

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Kickstarter: Funding Creativity in a New (Old) Way

Museum 2.0

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. (For The all-or-nothing funding approach makes many project creators conservative about their ambitions.

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