Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Partnerships with technology companies are driving AI4Good, providing their expertise, toolkits, and resources to work with nonprofits to integrate the use of AI. Most projects require partnerships to access both technical ability and sector expertise. Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, 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. Principal Consultant, Heller Consulting. Jennifer has been working at Heller Consulting for eight years. “ Jennifer Thall.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. CO: I think many nonprofits can relate to needing to solve a technical or operational challenge and not having the resources to do it. How has participating with the Commons program helped this project?

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" Then I elaborate with my true opinion of Project: it's a great tool if you're building a bridge or a luxury hotel. Real world projects require far more agile and accessible tools.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Who Tweets? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. transaction fee per donation.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Yes, we must steward our investments responsibly and ethically, but what is responsible and ethical about potentially wasting massive amounts of resources, using outdated problem-solving skills, and getting minimal impact for our efforts? The information is often shared and received by another funder as an appreciated heads-up.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. They don’t want to choose a product that won’t get the full resources of the merged company, or could even be killed off. It could also open the door to an open source project.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Luckily, there are some great Internet safety resources that are specific for healthcare organizations , libraries , seniors , kids , and small offices (like the ones that most nonprofits have). It has a great no-nonsense resource section for online bullying. There's more! Here are some of those that we like. There is a lot to it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. Highest level of effort for implementation – ranging from $5K to $25K and up depending on the scope of the project. Solution: WordPress Object Sync for Salesforce.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Think about that for a moment — we have over 300 consulting and product partners that are serving thousands of organizations and institutions globally. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org. Tim Lockie, Now It Matters.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We are consulted by policymakers, legislators, rightsholders, companies and activists for our insights. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

The vendor services can be more expensive than, say, an independent consultant. For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. If you are struggling with this, find a data consultant that can help you. As a general rule of thumb, though, use the importers. What do we do now?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Excellent resource. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 at 11:01 am Congratulations! 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 at 11:01 am Congratulations! You deserve to be proud of this work! Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. 30,000 yearly income, and now we have loads of staff and lots of different projects and a turnover of 1.3

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Resources. Shawn particularly focused on the different integration options as well as resources to help organizations get the most out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Some of the resources included were: NPower Northwest - a great technology consulting and resource organization geared towards nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Travis Butterfield , Project Coordinator, Marketing/Communications. A great resource for finding your best fit is NTEN’s Consumer’s Guide to Donor Management Software. One resource you will inevitably hear about while researching CRMs is Salesforce. It can be a great resource for those looking for a CRM solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

There were 150+ submitted nominations and 3,000+ people voted and 21 projects were selected. The Featured Projects will be going on to the NetSquared Conference and have an opportunity to receive cash, tech and consulting resources. Open Source, Open Standards Video [link]. Maps 2.0 ???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Depending on the project, those can be really useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

It leveled the playing field, so that an organization without many resources could do what at that time, required a lot of resources. I think of myself as one of them (Besides working with NOSI , I’ve been involved in several projects over the years in varied capacities.) If you don’t, it’s still the majority.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction. Download it for free at [LINK: [link] ] to learn more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

I think part of the answer has to be to provide the resources for people to become better providers – whether it be to help budding accidental techies get off the ground to become great IT staff or independent consultants, or helping individual and small consulting firms learn what makes really good nonprofit support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read. They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Of course, like all open source software, it is “free as in kittens&# – but this particular kitten is pretty grown up, and already spayed and litter trained. It’s not only that they are going to be contributing to the project – but remember the old adage “no one ever got fired for buying IBM&# ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 at 7:35 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well. I’ve been re-reading a book that I read early in the decision-making process about becoming a consultant way back in 1996. It’s called The Consultant’s Calling , and it’s really a book about consulting as a calling, a vocation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Now, of course, as a techie, and someone with a home network, and multiple computers, and varied projects, there is always a list like this. And, as Dustin pointed out in the comments to my venting post earlier, a lot of this is not the fault of open source desktop software developers. This is my dilemma. Be Helpful.

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