Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment. Invest in Open Source.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 11, 2020

For the general public, the designation “nonprofit” is often correlated with donations. FASB’s answer came in the ASU 2018-08, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958) that provides clarifying scope and accounting guidance for contributions received and contributions made. Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958)” [link].

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Victoria, Canada: How Non-Profits can Assess and Evaluate Privacy Risks. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Computer Tutoring (Graphic Design). Online: Online class on Google For Non Profits Grants and Adwords Grants. Creative Commons licensed by Patrick Hoesly. Vancouver, Canada: Community Management: PR Tips & Tricks.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Meg: Vibrant Table Virtual Events supports Portland’s corporate, non-profit & social Virtual Events by delivering delicious catered meals safely to your participants’ home. We did a lot of research and have licenses to serve but fairly early on learned we could deliver wine and beer but not hard alcohol (in Oregon).

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) does NOT apply to nonprofits unless they “control or are controlled by a for-profit business or that share common branding with covered business are covered by the California Consumer Protection Act, which grants consumers new rights including data transparency and data deletion rights.”

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

eTapestry is a cloud-based solution with straightforward fundraising and relationship management features that are designed to be highly user-friendly. Salesforce has been a well-known provider of enterprise-sized for-profit CRM software for decades. Salesforce’s Nonprofit Success Pack.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

One answer to these questions may be the social enterprise model, which has the potential to revolutionize both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Social enterprises are for-profit or nonprofit businesses whose products and services address major unmet needs of society. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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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.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Overnight, banks and financial institutions are in crisis, the stock market plunges, interest rates and housing prices drop, corporate sales and profits dip, employment lines grow, funds everywhere dry up. Does your non profit need to strengthen your financial outlook ? Defenders of Children. The year is 2008. to continue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature…” These great qualities of ideas led to our legal system regulating the propagation of ideas differently than physical objects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. It is also cross platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. It is also cross platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It’s designed as a basecamp clone. In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) It has some things missing, for sure, but it has been useful to me. However, that won’t happen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Los Angeles, California: Web Accessibility: Designing Inclusive User Experiences. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Designing Effective Public Engagement for Nonprofits. Vancouver, British Columbia: Pints Not Profits. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

After trying Google's Chromebook for his personal use, Beaty suggested that the organization try it too : A small underfunded non-profit (I volunteer there) has 11 employees. Since then, they've been joined by an increasingly sophisticated array of design and editing tools. Photo: slgckgc , CC license

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Toronto has scheduled a Pints not Profits social, Victoria is holding its annual NGO Ho Ho party, and the Research Triangle will hold an NPTech Mixer. Portland, Oregon: Design Like Mad Portland. Toronto, Ontario: Pints Not Profits — Nonprofit Technology. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: Community Class — Intro to Design Thinking and Prototyping. Melbourne, Australia: Ideas for the Not-for-Profit Intranet. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Saturday, June 10, 2017. Atlanta, Georgia: Connecting for Social Good. Monday, June 12, 2017. Tuesday, June 13, 2017.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Charles Brennick is the Founder and Director of Interconnection , a nonprofit that provides high-quality refurbished computers to non-profit and non-governmental organizations around the world. Follow the on-screen prompts to select your language options and accept the End User License Agreement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

So what should non-profit tech folks be doing to prepare for the opportunities of "the future"? . and licensing models. This year, I've heard quite a few conversations about kick-starting SaaS offerings based on CiviCRM, as well. I'd be surprised if there aren't several strong offerings available in the next few years. .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

The overall deal has to address not only licensing and servercloud services but must also consider design, implementation, support, modification, retraining, maintenance and upgrade—and it has to do this while respecting scale differences and various scheduling and operational constraints for all represented affiliates.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Vancouver, British Columbia: Pints Not Profits: Field Trip to Vancouver Hackspace. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Salesforce Scotland Not-for-Profit User Group Meetup. Genève, Switzerland: Do-camp: Hackaton UX Design — Responsibility.digi­tal. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

With a design inspired by GO Campaign's work for orphans and vulnerable children across the world, this 16GB Flip provides up to 4 hours of incredible high quality HD video. Convio Interested in learning how your website stacks up against other non-profits like yours? Want to share it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. John Haydon, who advises small non-profits, small businesses and social entrepreneurs on how to implement inbound marketing strategies with the social web.

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See3

AUGUST 9, 2007

The Red Cross has made a move in recent years that threaten the business interests of Johnson & Johnson by licensing the symbol to companies that make consumer medical products. Their move into licensing reminds me of AARP, an organization with a massive for-profit subsidiary. Mission driven or profit driven?

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Efficient Elements The Program: Efficient Elements makes up to 100 licenses of its Efficient Elements for presentations software available to organizations per fiscal year. Plus: as a B-Corp , Dharma will return 10 percent of the gross annual processing profits from your merchant account in the form of an annual donation to you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

This holiday season the Mission Merchant's Association has designated December 4-6 as a time to Shop Local First in the Mission, and created a map and discount coupon that you can download and take with you as you shop. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 shop local San Francisco

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

If you click through to the license, it says "all rights reserved." Jim laughed and told me that the photo was in the public domain so I could blog it anyway I wanted and that he was going to change the default license. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. justify usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." The higher your price, the higher your profit. Get tech saavy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. Even though I love promoting open source software and Linux among my non-profit clients, we’re not at the point where I could recommend Linux desktops for organization staff. 2 ThomasT 06.24.08 at 10:58 pm Sigh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

" Response from Holly Ross: We're trying to first engage the social media "experts" to share their knowledge so we can design a curriculum that addresses the social media "novice." "Be careful, not all non profits are aware of our jargon. Encourage usage of the community resources?"

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. The design patterns all have accessibility sections - which is great to see. It's certainly big news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

There are different flavors of Creative Commons licensing, some encourage remixing more than others as the Learn Online blog points out in the " The Illogical rhetoric of Share Alike " Ruby Sinreich points us to Liza Sabater's manifesto on People Powered Politics based on the seminar Cluetrain Mainfesto. is still relevant.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

You’ve heard the buzz phrases “responsive design,” “mobile friendly,” “mobile optimized,” and so on, when professionals are referring to websites. However, did you realize that your marketing emails can also be optimized for tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. The challenge is to design a template that travels well and can be easily and consistently updated (when our organization moved, I had 5 different footers to update). Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.)

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This database is designed to track every aspect of the donor journey, from their first donation through your CharityEngine-powered donation page to their attendance at your favorite fundraising event. Similar to Bloomerang, CharityEngine was designed specifically for nonprofit use. After all, you designed it that way!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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