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Open Source for Nonprofits: What to Know (Part 1)

Tech Soup

Success and survival require constant courtship of donors, vigilant monitoring of costs, and effective management of projects and stakeholders. For this reason, nonprofits are good candidates for open-source software (OSS), which can offer the functionality they need, without the glitz, glamor, and high price point of commercial systems.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course: from its founding Caltech has been a testament to the generosity of donors who succeeded in business. It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture.

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Integrating WordPress with Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

Pricing and level of effort: No licensing costs; included with Salesforce . Pricing and level of effort: Low annual licensing costs ranging from $50 to $300 depending on the package. Pricing and level of effort: Higher annual per-user licensing costs ranging from $1K to $8K depending on the package.

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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate.

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Good Lessons from a Bad Economy

NTEN

Randy McCabe, MPower Open. Two key factors have combined in a sort of perfect storm that has curtailed giving at every level, from small to major donors. This has the largest direct impact on the major donor end of the spectrum, as well as foundations and some government programs. There is a powerful opportunity here.

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Best Cloud Tools for your Nonprofit

Care2

Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. Managing your nonprofit's database is key so you'll need a good CRM to help you manage all your donor relationships. It's not obvious, but it's not rocket science either.

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Salesforce and your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Whatever your nonprofit experience level and situation, you probably have to keep track of donors and other key constituents. The solution to this dilemma is a customer relations management (CRM) system (sometimes called a donor management system in the nonprofit arena). ASU Lodestar Center.