Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Define your website needs.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

Website personalization relies on data to optimize the content on a website to cater to a particular visitor. Optimizing your content with personalization allows for audiences to interact with the most applicable content for them, thus creating a better, more engaging user experience. Forum One’s website personalization tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

This approach is distinct from more traditional content management or digital experience (CMS/DXP) implementation approaches where monolithic services, back-end management, and front-end templates are all tightly interwoven. Because of this, there’s often more custom work involved in developing basic websites.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

These RFPs have giant lists of requirements related to how content will be authored, formatted and published. We often get asked this question: What is the best content management system (CMS) for association websites? Here are some ways that we’ve helped our clients choose a system that’s right for them. Depends on what?,

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

These RFPs have giant lists of requirements related to how content will be authored, formatted and published. We often get asked this question: What is the best content management system (CMS) for association websites? Here are some ways that we’ve helped our clients choose a system that’s right for them. Depends on what?,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

WordPress is the world’s most-used Content Management System (CMS), and Salesforce is the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Solution: Content Management System Form Builders. Similar to the CMS form tools, these tools use a GUI-based system for designing forms and mapping fields. .

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Carr Systems’ growth has prompted us to redesign our site to better reflect precisely what it is that we do for our customers, who those customers are, and the unique approach that makes us an ideal solution for SMBs, nonprofit organizations and public agencies.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

A step-by-step approach to personalization allows organizations to start delivering unique content sooner than later. As individuals, we’re served targeted content and ads based on our previous online behavior or social media profiles (e.g., This includes: Email databases Website analytics CRM systems Online giving platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models. Be Helpful.

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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. Notably, the group debated the tension between short-term fixes and long-term systemic change. Elizabeth Whamond.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

By creating targeted content and using effective digital marketing strategies, you can direct people to your microsite which will then lead them to your main website. It takes development teams longer to build and maintain multiple websites than it does one. Once a campaign is over the site content needs to be updated or migrated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. It has become a powerful platform, and there is a lot you can do with it – but it was never designed with content or visual design in mind. What are the advantages?

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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. Will Blackbaud continue to develop on both the Salesforce and Infinity platforms? Here my perspective. I don’t invest in these or other companies that I advise on.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Keeping content (like event descriptions) consistent across systems. Invest in Open Source. Own the technology.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 20 years ago. What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 million members. Why Drupal 9 is different.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. Even with the consultant’s help, they had to endure a lengthy implementation period; it was months before the system was set up. Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 million members.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 million members.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Our system was done from scratch, and we are able at last to accept all kinds of donations.”. Salesforce joined the Chief Technology of Greenpeace International, Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa to demonstrate the newly released Grants Content Kit created by a group of cross-sector experts in the latest Salesforce.org Impact Labs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

The “academic” debate around Drupal typical centers on whether Drupal is a Content Management System (and hence primarily for standard website) or an Application Development Framework (and hence ideal for data-driven, application production). Content updates are being generated faster than they can be read.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Whether they are browsing your website content on their desktop or scrolling through your social media posts on their mobile phone, it’s crucial to create continuity across all your marketing touchpoints. Develop strong content journeys. The old adage that “content is king” still holds true for your omnichannel strategy.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

These guidelines can also inform the development of your nonprofit’s security policy, if you do not have one already. Develop and adhere to your organization’s privacy policy and safeguarding policy. Always use systems in a professional manner and with good judgment. ClamAV is a popular open-source option.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 2, 2016

When it comes to options that can really help you sell on your site, WordPress—as open source software—puts lots of additions at your fingerprints from third party developers. WooCommerce however will require you to find a host, and that will cost more money down the road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. The content isn't just about the technology, but includes many other topics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s About the Author.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve helped organizations with case statement, board development, strategic planning, and fundraising campaigns. A: When we started in 2008 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Achieve’s origins were around strategic planning, fundraising strategy, campaign development, and academic research on what motivates people to give and how to reach them.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One received 12 awards in six categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of environmental awareness, health, art, cultural institutions, and associations. Without further ado: the winners! NRDC’s “Fighting Polluters Since 1970”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

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. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content. There are different media forms that mandate different types of content — and nonprofits must consider this as part of the online content strategy. Treesaver divides content into pages, automatically adjusting to the size of any screen.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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