Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. Open source as a philosophy also promotes accessibility, transparency, inclusivity, open data, and integration with other tools. Example: FrontlineSMS.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

What’s even better is looking behind and seeing you’ve left a path to help others, or coming to the aid of someone who needs help on their personal journey up ahead. This is something that our DEI Open Source Commons team is working to change. What’s next?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job. Be Helpful. 4 admin 02.05.08

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers. Additionally, Gerardo helped conceive our major new effort to ignite new tech social enterprise through Benetech Labs.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. You’ll need someone familiar with installing and configuring open source systems on a Web server in order to get you up and running. by Fund for the City of New York. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap. Organizers Database (ODB).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful. When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Going to a x.0

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Take, for example, the Summit Events App.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

If your constituents could log in to your site and see content personalized just for them, or a reminder that it's been a year since their last donation, you'd have technology that goes a long way toward helping you meet your mission. Each system will be presented by experts in the field who’ve been there and done that before.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. To do so, we definitely need your help. To help now, please use the Donate Form on Benetech''s website and give whatever you can. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. This managed package helps administrators who need to understand relationships between different sets of data in a number of situations, like when Salesforce Roll-Up Summary Fields aren’t an option or custom coding isn’t possible.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

15 Types of Nonprofit Videos to Help You Connect with Supporters. When hand-written notes are as personalized as most people get these days, a thank-you video can help your nonprofit stand out from the crowd while making your donors feel extra-appreciated. Check out this great example from Brother Wolf Animal Rescue!

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Your email platform, for example, likely allows you to customize your messages based on: Location Topics of interest Past actions taken Other behavior history data. This stage of personalization doesn’t require automation, and you can test and gauge impact by simply monitoring opens and click-through rates. What are your goals?

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

Using data to organize your content from most to least impactful will entice visitors to stay longer and experience helpful content and engaging conversational tools. For example, you can make use of Optimizly as a cloud-based solution, or Smart Content as a CMS-specific approach. Forum One’s website personalization tool.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. At an organizational level, evaluations can help to establish ethics policies for what AI can be used for and what appropriate use looks like.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. veterans were receiving pleas for help from Afghans who served alongside the U.S. Veterans Called to Duty Digitally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” They opened up the same mechanism in year two and received a stack of proposals with bold and innovative ideas. Please help now.” They are doing really great work and they need more help to meet demand.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

The ability to track engagement metrics like event attendance, email open rates, and other membership activities will help you improve your future outreach efforts. Automation Automated tools can help you with things like sending emails and receipts, setting tasks, and tracking renewals and member retention.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions. The quality of the search results were limited by our querying capabilities and relevancy ranking.

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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. Ultimately, the bot helped the organization decrease the response time which is a critical metric for emergency and humanitarian work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. actually helping to work out the details of what we need to do to get people to co-operate in using it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Another example is Melbourne-based RMIT University. In addition, workflows help set up students for success with Slack and other learning tools. Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. In 2021, 53 million Americans turned to food banks and community programs for help putting food on the table.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Help Nonprofits Upgrade to Windows 10. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Baltimore, Maryland: Google AdWords and Free Tech Help. " Five Tools to Make Social Media Magic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

It is a sort of metric of value and helps figure out what they may know. So, is your personal knowledge network like open source software or is it under lock and key? Is this another example of hold your breath, set it free, and hope that something comes good comes back? would join such a public forum.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Technology helps nonprofits deliver on our missions more effectively, but it can also be fiendishly complicated. In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. Baltimore, Maryland: Google AdWords and Free Tech Help. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. I hope that we’ll continue to see more and more examples of this thoughtfulness in 2019. It’s not slowing down.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

He identifies the efforts of World Wildlife Fund and the UNEP/GRID-Arendal's OCEANIDS project as good examples of this. Open Data for Social Change. We Need Open Data To Change The World. In this post, Lucy Bernholz describes how sharing open data in the social sector can increase impact.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Drawing from experience, we have a few ideas about why that could be, and how Drupal can help. It sets goals and expects that the investment will eventually enjoy returns that will help the company grow. Invest in Open Source. For example: Recruiting volunteers takes valuable staff time. Own the technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Social media is one of the most tangible examples of the real time web. . Another great example is Epic Change.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. Let’s take Salesforce, for example. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

For example, if a nonprofit is launching a new program, they might create a microsite to house all of the program’s information in one place. Let’s take a look at three reasons: 1) Microsites can help simplify your message. A microsite can help you do just that by zeroing in on one specific campaign or initiative.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

They''re always willing to help each other out and share their knowledge. With that in mind, we wanted to share the top ten examples of our community sharing what they know with each other from the past year. Are you using Google+ Open source vs proprietary CMS Just what is a data scientist anyway?

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. These platforms have become essential to people from marginalized communities as they build political power, deliver mutual aid, and have helped many make a living.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. Open source projects do get better. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. I was fortunate to meet some individuals who connected me to developers that helped me with the first prototype of the app. How has participating with the Commons program helped this project?

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