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. His areas of expertise include policy analysis and development, group facilitation, benefits enrollment, and workforce development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. What is Ethical Consulting (not so surprising, I facilitated that one.). Designers & Developers and Empowering Clients (combined session, I co-facilitated). I got to learn a ton, and contribute a bit. Customizing and Extending CiviCRM. Designing RESTful APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. There are both proprietary and open source LMS. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I’d also love to consult with for-profit vendors who are thinking about dipping their toes into offering support for open source projects, or open sourcing their software. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do? Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

Of course, people like me, who make our living building websites, and helping facilitate the web presences of organizations, look askance at tools like this, so take what I say with a grain of salt. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. The problem I have is that they hid it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C C future,” said Suzanne DiBianca, Chief Impact Officer and EVP of Corporate Relations at Salesforce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2010

Four activities will be presented over both days, and each activity will be facilitated by winners of the TechSoup Global NTC Networking Challenge. Tags: Digital Divide Open Source Services Software Using the Web and Internet. The Member Lounge is in the Redwood Room on the ground floor of the Omni Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Social Actions is facilitating this challenge to encourage innovations for distributing opportunities to make a difference across the Internet and mobile devices. To be eligible for prizes, all submissions must 1) be fully functional by the time voting begins, 2) include an open-source license, and 3) make use of Social Actions API.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. The plugin also facilitates development to further modify the sync for your needs. Solution: WordPress Object Sync for Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. He then pulled the data into an open source network analysis software called Gephi which produced a network map that he reviewed to help guide engagement and source discovery.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

A silent data revolution in the Arab World This World Bank blog post by Paolo Verme explains how the 2011 Arab Revolution also led to a lesser recognised cultural revolution with regard to open data. Open Source data NetSquared big data' Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

Its award-winning apps help underserved youth find meals and a safe space, facilitate safe shelter for abuse and trafficking survivors, and deploy volunteers to time-sensitive community needs. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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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. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla! Penguin Days. What are the best practices?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. Be Helpful.

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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. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. 8 Pete 06.25.08

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Check out the following CoP's and their upcoming events: The Nonprofit Technology Consultants CoP is a forum for nonprofit technology consultants to help facilitate frank discussion about working with nonprofit organizations. They're having their first call on Monday, September 26th. You can find out more and register here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Allen is a skilled communicator and facilitator in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors. Allen will add an Open Source Software perspective to John's explanations of hardware, software, and networks. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

She was the facilitator for the event and did an excellent job keeping everyone on track and picking up key themes. She facilitated the session on "Gender Blogging" on Friday afternoon. Sopheap did an excellent facilitating the group. Viirak had set up the live connection using Ustream.TV Good how to resource here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source. I participated in projects where we have worked wikily, but I haven't facilitated one. Right now I'm focused on thinking about one aspect of the project - What is the social (networked) process around curriculum development?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

I'm limiting my scope to those that do something new or interesting to facilitate actual donations. Ehren Foss has a decade of diverse technical experience with web programming, database administration, and many of the open source tools that help make the web an amazing place to work. I'm completely unbiased though, don't worry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Jacob Harold, Guidestar , shared some thoughts to this question, “What are the basic building blocks to facilitate better access to data?” He suggested the need for open source licenses for data and research should be available openly within a year. IssueLabs is a great start.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Seattle, Washington: Facilitating Great Board Meetings. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Ottawa, Ontario: FYI: 3rd International Hockey Analytics Conference. Monday, May 8, 2017. Kitchener, Ontario: Offsite Hosting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline. Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Silona is organizing a Code-A-Thon that will lock up 100 programmers for 48 hours to see what kind of open source software can be written for non-profits. Most people don't always understand how a piece of software that facilitates conversations can change the world. It's taking place on October 13th at 6:00 p.m. until it does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software. at the Smithsonian 2.0 What are the objectives of the campaign?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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