Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. 01 per Status Update or Tweet, and set monthly maximums for total donations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

On day one, we also hosted a group of 14 nonprofit executives at the Soho House in New York City. Soledad O’Brien led a thought-provoking discussion with Beth Kanter and Allison Fine , co-authors of The Smart Nonprofit , and David Brown , senior vice president of strategy at Knotch, a content intelligence company.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign. Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They also offer hosted versions with more capacity for a monthly fee, starting at $19/month for 10 GB storage. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. charting as well as a host of other features. and Calendar.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Take a look at some of our resources and products available through the TechSoup donation program: TechSoup's Adobe Donation Program provides a range of software for revamping your organization's website. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

Despite the fact 57% of people who watch a nonprofit video go on to make a donation, video still seems skill- and cost-prohibitive for strapped fundraising professionals. If your organization is hosting a silent auction, don’t just throw your awesome auction items onto your event page and be done with them. Time to get festive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign. Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) It is a great tool for small to medium-sized organizations who are looking for a CRM to track members and donations, register people for events, and do mass mailings. You can set up web forms (for donations, event registration, etc.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There were a lot of things you could do, including accept donations, track personal donation pages, and the like. Organizations can get this package in three different ways: On premises - installed inside the firewall, hosted, or SaaS. There is a $10K license fee that you have to pay if you use the On premise or hosted versions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I'd sell it and donate the money to DoSomething.org. More organizations will depend on mobile donations. Organizations will still host chicken dinner fundraisers. By Nancy Lublin, CEO and Chief Old Person, DoSomething.org. If I had a crystal ball. More orgs will hire CTOs. Is it because we like hiring more senior people?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Not receiving TechSoup donations yet? Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? – 12:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as GlobalGiving and Facebook Causes. Lasica, a social media pioneer who co-founded Ourmedia.org, the first video hosting and sharing site. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The essence of this program is that Salesforce donates 10 free Enterprise Edition licenses to qualifying 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions and other organizations. It should also be noted that it is an open-source product, which means that it does not have the same quality assurance as Salesforce proper.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Set up scheduled backups your web host or from within your Content Management system. Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. Test Forms - Test donation and email subcription forms to be sure that funds are processed properly and contact info transfers to your database.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. that your nonprofit uses. Primary Navigation Bar: Footer: 4. Maximize your website’s sidebar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as Global Giving and Facebook Causes. especially Dennis Yu, Chad King and Austin Stierler — who took us under their wing and agreed to host us for free. And a thank-you to the coders at Intense Debate for the commenting system we settled on.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

software solution in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously. She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. 1 USB Hub.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

software solution in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously. She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. 1 USB Hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. Goldstein's Fundraising Success Podcast Britt Bravo, Have Fun, Do Good Blog, is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. It's an open source free web meeting service.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Curious to know what kind of emails are driving donations? Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more. Isovera Visit Isovera at Booth 51 and grab a handy "Got Open Source?" Idealware Article, reports, oh my! Informz It’s St. Z2 Systems, Inc.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. It requires very little maintenance.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

Total donations on the day totaled $4,361,327, an increase of 34% over 2014. ” For example: Last fall, a wooly mammoth was unearthed near Ann Arbor and donated to U-M. 1 million was raised by 10:03 a.m. Total donors on the day totaled 6,927, an increase of 27% over 2014.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. It requires very little maintenance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07 Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. They are tapping into a large audience of people who don't care whether their donations are tax-deductible or not.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. Every month our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. But did you know that our work is global?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. Next week's Carnival will be hosted over at Getting Attention Blog and it's on the topic of professional development. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A CMS that offers instant mobile optimization will open your site up to a mobile audience, helping to build your donor base. In fact, 360MatchPro reports that mobile users made up 33% of online donation transactions last year. . This will further expand your nonprofit’s digital visibility so you can elevate your mission. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause? New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan. Freecharity.org.uk

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For nonprofit organizations, some website builders offer specific features tailored to their unique needs like donation processing, event registration, volunteer sign-up, members-only pages, and more. To accept donations, for instance, you’ll probably want to install the Give WP plugin.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

To host a successful fundraising event, whether it’s virtual or in-person, you’ll need a reliable method of registering attendees. Create a beautiful peer-to-peer event page that not only introduces new users to your mission with key branding but also hosts information like a fundraising tracker and leaderboard. Text-to-Donate.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Open Function is an automated data integration tool that connects anything to anything (think Internet of things sensors connected to water pumps in mines). Accounting.

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