Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Dr. Patrick Ball, who has led our Human Rights Program since 2003, now heads HRDAG as its Executive Director and Dr. Megan Price, formerly a senior statistician at Benetech, has joined Patrick as the organization’s Co-Founder. We have also begun searching for a new senior executive to lead our Human Rights Program.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Health crises such as the recent outbreak of coronavirus add a heightened level of urgency to the work that Wikipedia does on a daily basis, and so Marketplace ’s Molly Wood sat down with Katherine Maher, chief executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation , to talk about the challenges of misinformation and the future. Anne Eigeman.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

CMOM Executive Director Andrew Ackerman acknowledges that an active knowledge network and “philanthropists who are willing to provide ongoing support and venture into new areas” have been critical. Building a movement through innovative open source tools. million in one day. Now it’s your turn.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Open Source Commons and Community Sprints , where our Salesforce-savvy community gathers to co-create solutions together. His career at Salesforce spans more than 10 years, with previous roles leading global marketing at Saleesforce.org and public sector industry solutions. Eric Barela. Morgan Buras-Finlay.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Founder and CEO Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, and director of communications Kirsten Morrison talked about how the organization is using technology to scale their goals, their programs, and their impact. . Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud , Powered by Amazon Web Services was also announced. Learn more here. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So So now’s my chance to blog about it!) Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. . at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 2 admin 07.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? How does this all get paid for? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

One of the most important roles I play is educating clients about the technology that they will be engaging with, based upon what I’ve heard while I’ve listened. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop).

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data. and James L.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. { My advising practice is much more about educating and helping people with concrete technology tools, and concrete projects. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 08.30.07

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Kelly Lao, Executive Director at the German American Heritage Center, said the Bloomerang system allowed the GAHC to turn more lapsed or new donors into sustained givers. Nonprofits can use this software to track fundraising campaign progress or assign roles within a larger project. Their team found its solution in Bloomerang.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I feel that the question of how ‘up’ on technology we need to be depends on your role in nonprofit. There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! We’re just not there yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) This reminds me of a true story. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

They ask, “How can we present to our Board of Directors, our funders, and our volunteers how much value volunteering brings to our ability to carry out our mission?”. There is a free online open-source software program that supports the development of these Socioeconomic Statements. Patricia Lewis' role as Sr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I’m not leaving nonprofit technology, though, just this particular role – I expect to stay involved, keep connected, keep prodding and poking, and keep learning. I had decided to leave it two years ago to go to seminary, then, when I left seminary, I picked it up again briefly. I have now realized I need to set it down for good.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier,TechSoup Global’s Chief Business Development Officer, is a newly minted member of the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) board of directors. Of course I also worked with the executive director of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward when she helped us build the NetSquared community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Phil’s observation about less money to be made in open source has this choice retort: “Remember, trying to measure the information / attention / netocratic economy in dollars is like trying to figure out the worth of Microsoft by the number of acres it occupies.&# Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

These two young women were in the small group role play exercise. The woman wearing the green t-shirt played the role of my daughter. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Right now you are the executive director of CAMT. Can you tell me a little bit about your work there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. Role of Foundations in the movement. Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation. . The result of the work might be the “Platinum low cost housing project” and the “Gold job creations” project.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. Several recent studies have shown that technology can exacerbate bias and discrimination.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. Only two proprietary CMS systems, Antharia’s and Ektron, had scores as good as the open source CMS.The CMS options from the big three (er, now the big two) didn’t score as well. Next step — CRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Sometime in September, NOSI will be releasing the new version of the primer on open source software for nonprofits. I’ll be announcing it, for sure. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. In what ways have they not? is it a problem that can be solved in any other ways? Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

Megan Keene, NTEN membership director, describes the NTENny awards this way: "The NTENny Awards go to community-nominated individuals who have gone above and beyond to enhance the NTEN community. He says that being an organizer gives him a defined role so he has an "in" to talk with people. I'm no maker.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Open Access publishing therefore leads to wider dissemination of information and increased efficiency in science … Which is, actually, a very practical down to earth argument. Katrin Verclas (the Executive Director of NTEN, for those who don’t know) was eager to know if there was any way to make it open and pushed hard for it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. We do it in a number of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

By day, she's the director of strategy at Livingston Communications. More than likely, you'll need to engage your audience in said strategy, and social media will play a role in that. It's been set up as an "open source activism" movement - anything goes. Meet Qui Diaz. Tell me about you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) Be Helpful.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

In terms of traditional investors, the executive director of Start.coop, Greg Brodsky, has emphasized that start-up cooperatives will never be scaled up without the support of more of these whale investors than we’re seeing. Substantial government support and policy change will be critical if platform cooperatives are ever to thrive.

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

Erica is the director of external relations, a position she has held since joining the library in 2017. In that role, she is responsible for marketing, communications, and fundraising. A recent conversation with Erica Busillo Adams of Providence Public Library is a perfect case in point!

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