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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

But when the stakes are high, data is the knife that cuts through preconceptions to uncover the objective truth. AI turns that knife into a laser taking data-driven decision-making to unprecedented levels of accuracy, efficiency, and ease. AI provides a satellite image of an entire data landscape. Not necessarily so.

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An Open Source Website Personalization Tool for Mission-Driven Organizations

Forum One

At Forum One, we strive to provide solutions and tools that allow mission-driven organizations to make an impact in the world. Forum One is currently developing such a tool to empower content administrators to better shape the content that their audiences need, and in turn, increase the value of their websites.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

CRM (which I am defining rather loosely, rather than tightly, for the purpose of this post – as the tool or set of tools used to track constituents, donations, perhaps even events and volunteers) are arguably the most important technology tools that nonprofits use.

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Open Source Means Strong Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” This is a recurring question that we get at Benetech about Martus —our free, strongly encrypted tool for secure collection and management of sensitive information, built and provided by the Benetech Human Rights Program. No, it does not.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Web Server Software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Microsoft has web server software called IIS , and it’s database server product is MS SQL server , which people use for far more than just serving web site data. On top of proprietary UNIX, people will generally run associated open source server software for web, database and development frameworks. It is way ahead of IIS.

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Understanding bias and harm Modern AI tools are trained on vast amounts of mostly human-generated data. AI often amplifies those biases.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more. Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data.