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How Carnegie Corporation of New York Got Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

Now that more and more 501(c)(3) private foundations are discovering that they are eligible for Microsoft donations through TechSoup , it may help to hear how one foundation's director of information technology got the software she needed. She is also on the board of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG).

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How The James Irvine Foundation Received Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

Because of new Microsoft eligibility rules that now allow private foundations to receive Microsoft software donations , Jeff Brandenburg, Irvine Foundation’s director of technology, describes his experience getting the first donations in his foundation’s long history. Jeff reports that he's not been bored at all.

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CRM&CMS Integration: Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge and NetCommunity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Yes, it might be surprising, but I got a friendly email from fellow NTEN Board Member Steve McLaughlin, who also happens to be head of all things internet (more formally, Director, Internet Solutions) at Blackbaud. The big kicker, pretty much as always with Blackbaud, is the price tag. She’s talking about Blackbaud?

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN. All materials created for the site are released under Creative Commons licenses so that other sites and blogs can freely reuse the content. Tags: digital learning resources collaboration nptech resource socialbrite.

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. 1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. But hopefully that will change. {

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Guest Post by Robert Rosenthal: VolunteerMatch Now In the Creative Commons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today we have proudly announced that we are releasing our entire database of volunteer opportunities to outside developers under a Creative Commons license to expand the non-commercial use of our free service. Tags: guest blogging volunteering. The sky is the limit. We’ll have more information for you shortly.

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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site. Tags: transparency. Sharing internal presentations on slideshare. Strategy documents are put in google documents or blogged, they ask for feedback via Twitter. Have a story, please sign up for a guest post here or let us know in the comments.