Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

For nonprofits, two CMS platforms stand out as the most effective, well-rounded systems for long-lasting websites: WordPress and Drupal. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. It’s accessible for users at all different levels and doesn’t require advanced technical knowledge to use.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

An integrated member database will allow you to use all of the features effectively. The ability to track engagement metrics like event attendance, email open rates, and other membership activities will help you improve your future outreach efforts. Users also report limitations as far as reporting and analytics.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

By creating targeted content and using effective digital marketing strategies, you can direct people to your microsite which will then lead them to your main website. Weebly : Another all-in-one platform that provides everything you need to create a website without any design or coding knowledge required.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Here are five tools that are either free or you've already obtained, which, used together, will be far more effective than MS Project for the typical project at a small to mid-sized organization: GanttProject. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Think of it as MS Project lite.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

An effective omnichannel strategy relies heavily on an intimate knowledge of your audiences and their interests and needs. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to make sure your content is effective in your omnichannel strategy: What kind of content are your users already consuming?

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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. Global nonprofit measures and shares its impact in real time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

We are a nonprofit technology company serving the unserved, tackling important challenges that the private sector cannot by developing content, products and services to effect social change. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Plus, these free solutions can often limit your ability to fundraise effectively, costing you even more money than what you’d spend to invest in a paid fundraising software solution. Top Free Communication Tools for Nonprofits 86% of employees and executives attribute workplace failures to a lack of effective communication.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it. Climatelinks.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Additional Opportunities Created for Staff. Self-paced learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. “By

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. 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). Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

For example Edgeflip , a new initiative plans to turn the ad hoc data analysis tools developed for the campaign into software that can make nonprofits more effective at raising money and recruiting volunteers. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. .” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson, ‘All We Can Save’. Executive Director, Valley Clean Air Now.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Idealware's own articles page and blog offer a wealth of knowledge for nonprofits. Through a friendly, easy-reference format, the Field Guide helps you pinpoint the types of software that can increase your organization’s effectiveness and efficiency. It’s hard to even know what exists, let alone what is best for you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. These things are far from the fault of Linux. Where is Linux not a good idea?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Toronto, Canada: How to Work Effectively with Google Apps. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Chicago, Illinois: Peer-to-Peer Learning Experience: Mission-Driven Digital Storytelling. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes — Allegheny.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Knowledge will continue to be an issue as well, whether it is knowledge of the issue or location or knowledge of what is really needed.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

More knowledge, confidence and excitement about organizing in your city. It’s time to go back to basics and figure out how to effectively organize. This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Monday, April 27.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. Idealware Nonprofit Software Knowledge Sharing Initiative. Open Source, Open Standards Video. The complete list of projects can be found here. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning. Foik Micro-Philanthropy Network.

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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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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

It’s most effective when you focus on showing your members the benefits of being part of your organization. Unlike a new recruit, you already have some history and knowledge of the lapsed members that can help you bring them back to the organization. Member Engagement Engaging your members is all about communication.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. This results in content recommendations that target gaps in your members’ knowledge. How effective these elements are at improving the learners’ performance.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Applications like Datamasher would be far more numerous and effective if government made its data accessible over APIs. If data were published in standard formats and schemas, open source projects could arise to interact with the data and give a standard set of tools to developers with great ideas to create new and useful applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Lately, I've had the experience of running the game as a 3-hour workshop as part of a second day of peer learning workshops on Network Effectiveness. I look for examples that match the principles for effective use and incorporate them into the presentation. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

submitted by Rachel Weidinger, Common Knowledge. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 Are you eating well? With snacks!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Following the event, he had some very helpful insights to share, especially about crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular and effective practice for spurring new ideas and innovation. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I observed her sharing her knowledge with other women at the conference. That's when I was dehydrated and suffering from the effects of previous night's dinner and had trouble concentrating and saying anything coherent). I got to spend some time with incredible women who run technology related programs at Open Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Reflection question from Beth: Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

But it's a "Catch 22" -- the proliferation of decentralized technology systems compromises the typical nonprofit's ability to deliver simply because its databases don't automatically integrate information about constituents for more effective marketing. The technology is available, affordable and effective.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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