Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. Keep all of this important personal information organized and in a secure database. Create your engagement plan informed by the data you collected.

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

You may have heard of Salesforce.com before – it’s one of the most robust and customizable database softwares in the industry. Salesforce.com is a San Francisco company that makes an online database available to nonprofits. Let’s dive in to what Salesforce can do and whether or not it could help you in your fundraising efforts.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

The first ten licenses for NPSP are free, providing small nonprofits with several out-of-the-box tools and a standard storage amount. Large nonprofits using NPSP can purchase additional licenses, storage, and applications as needed. Budget CRMs come at various price points based on their features, scale, and other factors.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Thanks to Darren DeRose, the IT Administrator for Children's Network of Solano County in Fairfield, California, having a shared database is no longer such a problem.

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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. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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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. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In addition to filling out this survey, conduct an internal readiness assessment that explores your existing processes, data infrastructure, and organizational goals. After up to three rounds of review, feedback, and revisions, it’s time to move your organization’s data over to its new home.

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Consultant Nonprofit Integration Review 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Collecting institutions have enormous stacks of data about the artifacts and artworks in their stores. Last month, the Tate joined the party when they opened up their collection database to the world on GitHub, a website where programmers collaborate on projects.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

You’ll also want to be able to track the value of your in-kind donations in your donor database. It also categorizes the data to track these donations effectively in your nonprofit database. Tracking In-Kind Donations in Your Database Tracking in-kind donations provides clarity on the resources available your organization.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . 21 st Century Data Breaches. The 21 st Century seems to be full of data breaches on everything from banking information to sensitive passwords and social media accounts.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. Nonprofits in India are realizing that putting up their data voluntarily on GuideStar India can bring them resources and capacity-building opportunities. We are thrilled to be associated with it."

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Applying for any necessary licensing or permits. Each state has different licensing rules depending on the type of nonprofit you’re starting. Nonprofits typically invest in resources such as: A CRM database. Your constituent relationship management software, or CRM, is used to store and analyze donor data.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

But I have to admit, I’m not a fan of the Foundation’s Batch Data Entry tool. It’s not just uploading Opportunity records via the Data Loader or DemandTools. And you have to know enough about your data to map the field name and values correctly. It’s all about manipulating data.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Your nonprofit’s constituent relationship management (CRM) software contains one of your organization’s greatest assets — your data. Investing in a new CRM is a costly decision, from the migration of all of your nonprofit’s data to the training needed to familiarize your team with the new solution.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With diverse data sources, complex corporate giving programs , and stakeholder expectations on the rise, it’s no wonder that CSR directors are seeking advanced solutions. They use CSR software to streamline data collection, track progress, and ensure compliance with CSR goals and standards.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. When they understood the data they didn’t trust it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Many of you have probably relied on multiple Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and maybe a Microsoft Access database at some point in your professional life. Contacts begin to slip through the cracks, and it becomes harder and harder to juggle all of the data. It also provides deep discounts on additional licenses, products, and services.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If you haven't heard of IssueLab, it is the Foundation Center's free database of more than 12,000 whitepapers, case studies, and evaluations. Near the end of the webinar, in the context of sharing and having access to social sector research, Lisa took some time to discuss Creative Commons licensing.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of this pilot, 19 people representing organizations large and small are working together this year to try to unlock and solve some of the challenges nonprofits face when it comes to: measuring and managing data making data-informed decisions and sharing the results with colleagues, partners, funders, and the public.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

We’ve been using Salesforce as our primary everything database since mid 2006. Our database is set up based on the old nonprofit best practice of putting individual constituents/donors in a bucket “Individual&# account. Once upgraded, all existing licenses can use the new features. Bugs will be fixed.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Dynamics CRM is ideal for larger organizations that store substantial constituent data and run analytics on it. Data entry: The Create command in the navigation bar allows you to enter data in a few fields to get new information into the system. Clean data helps nonprofits find more constituents and trends and raise more funds.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

But before you take the leap, you need to think long and hard about the security and data privacy implications that go along with cloud services. After all, companies like Box, Dropbox, and so on have an entire staff and significant financial resources dedicated to keeping your data secure, and to protect against data loss.

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Mind Tips Sharepoint Accessibility 58

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Thanks to advances in database and cloud technologies, it is now easier than ever to implement a CRM service in your organization. IT consultant Dr. Peter Flory wrote a two-part article series about why many CRM database projects fail – and some tips on how to get it right. Are they right for your organization?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0, and pretty good, and improving fast.) that will be published in Linux Identity Magazine. I hope to start doing OpenOffice.org training soon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) You can log in using OpenID.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. The old fashioned form of integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2013

Theme #1: “Our users are out to maliciously harm our database.”. Okay, I’m exercising some creative license there. More often than not, database security has been implemented out of an abundance of caution of the mistakes that people might make. Most databases have security roles or groups that govern security.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

Strategy is important because foundation IT systems have become much more sophisticated over the last decade, especially in the area of data?driven We received our software licenses in two days and installed them right away. driven grants management. Microsoft Software Assurance is also an added benefit.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Watch a replay of our Harness the Power of Your Data with CRM video to learn how CRM can increase your charity's impact. Read TechSoup's Guide to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Editions and Licensing and find out how you can implement Microsoft's donated CRM program at your nonprofit. CRM tsmanagedonorsconstituents'

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Global Resource Baltimore Netsquared 47

Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2011

This one by Care2 makes recommendations on webhosts, CRM database services, collaboration and messaging, and backup services. that includes 10 free licenses. I'm something of a collector of best of nonprofit technology lists, especially ones about cloud computing. Nonprofit CRM Recommendations. This is clearly their strong area.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." Initially, many open source projects didn't have the resources to build out the data center and operations required for SaaS.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Many nonprofit and library workers and volunteers get work email or access databases or use the organization’s intranet using their personal devices. Organizations with government grants or who are involved in healthcare are especially liable for organizational data going all over the place.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? And fine grained access control to what data goes through to which other individuals. Data silos are bad, as mentioned in the quote on Beth’s blog. And in this case, the value is in the data, not in the source of the application(s) using it.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

He manages the organization's website, databases, desktop support, social media, webinars, newsletter, IT network, training, and new program development, including integrating new information technology tools. Samuels describes his work as "developing tools at the intersection of programs and IT.

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