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Introducing a New Community-Built Application Supported by Salesforce.org Commons

Saleforce Nonprofit

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. “Open source is nothing without a community, and I could not be more excited for the DLRS team and this release. Learn more about the history of DLRS, and Andy’s decision to join the Open Source Commons program.

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SocialCoding4Good Going International with Random Hacks of Kindness

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

The GAHC had been using Excel to manage campaigns but didn’t have a way to view each donor’s giving history and other crucial donor information. Fees or limitations: Slack’s free plan is limited to 10 app integrations and limited version and messaging histories. Their team found its solution in Bloomerang.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. And, support from the Open Society Foundation made this event possible! This is a truly unique moment in Martus’ history.

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Google Chrome

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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New kid on the block: BlackbaudNow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can export your donation history into a CSV file, and you can make your reports into PDFs. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. Of course, proprietary software makers use open source software all the time, that’s not the problem. There are no APIs.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.