Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Third, the declined use of cash worldwide for purchasing goods and services is continuing and soon new payment systems will become mainstream for making charitable donations. Online donations accounted for 7.2% Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Events, Fundraising and Donations. WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To help now, please use the Donate Form on Benetech''s website and give whatever you can. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool. As we look forward to 2015, we recognize that much work remains to be done, and we definitely need your continued support. billion poor and unbanked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

And to remind you that there is still time to make a donation to A Day for Hearts Congential Hearts Defects Awareness Day or another charity of your choice. But I just couldn't resist " Open Source Your Love." Don't see your charity listed, well go promote over here.). Or send some geek love from NTEN.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Indeed, there are impressive Open Source solutions that not only can easily be customized to meet the unique needs of virtually any nonprofit mission, but considerable talent and expertise to guide these organizations through the process. This data is literally the life’s blood of the organization.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Text-to-give/Text-to-donate/Text-to-pledge tools. These tools are narrow focused tools that let nonprofits collect donations through texting either via pledge, mobile webform or through direct from mobile bill. This is not a typo, they offer free text-to-donate tool with keywords against the shortcode 44321. donation + $0.30

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

A strong nonprofit website engages supporters, educates visitors about your mission, and accepts online donations. Here are some features engaging nonprofit websites require: Branded donation forms and a secure payment processor to accept online donations. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

And as such, it’s vital that certain elements of your site have an ease-of-use available to you: for the ability to make quick changes to content and page designs; to tweak donation or payment platforms; to move your site to another platform should you choose; and so on.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I had the opportunity to sit down with Yaroslav Ivakhno, Coordinator of Resource Mobilization, who shared that when donations suddenly began pouring in from around the world, the organization was not equipped to accept donations in foreign currency. Making the World Better, Together.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 1, 2013

Soapbox Engage is way to take a stand alone front end for donation and event registration forms and easily get its data to Salesforce…a combination of a platform built on the open source CMS Joomla and Salesforce app. But let’s talk favorite feature of the software.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. Even platforms with no recurring monthly or yearly fee may require a transaction or processing fee to process donations. Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 16, 2010

Is it free because it’s open source (Drupal, Elgg, Word Press)? Is it free because it is a profitable company that has a clear and well defined donation program (Salesforce.com)? Are they free because the company behind them is an ad revenue machine and uber profitable (Google)?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Or do you wish your current database allowed you to track donations, volunteers, emails, and events? CiviCRM is a free, libre, and open-source software constituent relationship management (CRM) solution. Attend this free webinar Manage Your Data, Donations, and More with CiviCRM on Tuesday, November 23, 11 a.m.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

When your website visitors donate, subscribe to your newsletter, or register for an event, that information can be synced directly to Salesforce. Add-ons and middleware can be used to integrate payment processors for accepting donations, membership dues and other payments. GUI user interface makes it fast and simple to build forms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If you’re running database applications (tracking donations, events, programs, clients) and want deep integration between your web content and your data, it is an approach that is hard to beat. What are the advantages?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Project Common Voice is a Mozilla effort to build an open-source voice recognition engine that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web. The more people who donate recordings of their voice, the more useful the system will be.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. While easy to set up, designing an effective bot for a nonprofit from scratch can be daunting. It’s available for free to other nonprofits through BotsForCharity.com.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The Wikimedia Foundation is also up front about its interest in financial support, with “donate now” tabs highlighted in a few different places on the homepage and a “ support ” tab that clearly delineates funding sources and where the money goes. Anne Eigeman.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. It could also open the door to an open source project. Here my perspective. I don’t invest in these or other companies that I advise on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

It is an extremely low-end, low-cost online website/online donation package from a vendor that spends most of its time on the very high-end of the scale. An organization can sign up for a free account, get a 5 page website, including a donation page, about page, etc. It is a curious service. It is simple. There are no APIs.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Their donations were increasing and they were still struggling to meet the need. Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was an open-source searchable database in which you could enter the idea you were having, say, “community garden,” and up would pop a treasure trove of learning? Please help now.”

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. You get to decide which projects to support — and you’ll be able to hear directly from the students who received your donation. Please make a donation on the Socialbrite Giving Page. Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

ClamAV is a popular open-source option. Make sure that all data is securely wiped from devices before they are sold, donated, or recycled. DBAN is one popular open-source option to assist with this. Understand if you need to get permission from your manager or IT team to install new software on devices.

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2014

Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek. Free Geek keeps costs low and in line with its values by sending computers out with the free and open source Ubuntu operating system (rather than purchasing Windows licenses, for example).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

It doesn’t help organizations bridge the huge data and workflow gap present between their traditional CRM/Donation management systems and their social media interactions. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? It’s hype designed to sell things.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users. That’s today.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Identify whether there are specific metrics that will ultimately support your goals, including better engagement or more conversions in donations and members. If you are looking to integrate a web personalization tool into your digital strategy, learn about Forum One’s open source website personalization tool.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money. Here is why your organization should say no to creating microsites: 1. Divided Brand.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

Charity Hack Weekend brings together charities and developers to revolutionise the collection of donations. We hope by the end of the weekend a number of interesting applications have been born that can be used by any charity under an open source style licence. What we hope to get from the weekend. Learn more or register today

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Achieve

JANUARY 24, 2017

Our team decided to leverage the extensibility and scalability of the Drupal open-source content management system to ensure the site could handle the sustained load of 24-hours of giving. From midnight to midnight, supporters will be able to donate and amplify the impact their charity has on the community. Great Give.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. 01 per Status Update or Tweet, and set monthly maximums for total donations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Impacts to Society.

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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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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. More and more money is donated on this national day of giving each year. When did Giving Tuesday begin?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. at 8:22 pm Writing a Donation tracking CRM on top of Salesforce? They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine.

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