Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Below are 10 website design best practices specifically for the nonprofit sector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

We are a high tech organization that is not organized as a for-profit company, but instead as a nonprofit charitable corporation working to ensure technology serves all of humanity. At Benetech , we like to think of ourselves as part of Silicon Valley’s heart.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

By deepening their commitments to sustainability, organizations across sectors have the opportunity to enact more sustainable business practices and set an example for peer organizations. Nonprofits, education institutions, and corporations alike are recognizing their roles in creating a more sustainable future. From nonprofits like 350.org

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Yet, each year for the last six years, they come together to share best practices to make each individual and firm better at serving those organizations. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Now, you might think that is counterintuitive — why would you want to help your competition?!

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Big news: The 2nd annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is coming up on May 12th via phone and web! Women and Open Source. Tech Marketing in a Recession. Innovation and Tech Career Reinventio . Feel free to join our Facebook group. We have a great line-up again. Lisa Stone, cofounder of BlogHer. Video Activism.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

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. Or do you wish your current database allowed you to track donations, volunteers, emails, and events?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

With so little free time on your hands, it can be challenging to figure out which ones you must attend in May and June. Care2 and other vendors will be on hand to offer tips, tricks, and best practices on how to grow your list. Women Who Tech TeleSummit – May 23rd. Check out our top picks below. Register now!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. Currently she manages corporate venture capital partnerships at Elemental Excelerator, a climate tech growth accelerator based in the Pacific. Clayton Aldern.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Maintain and develop our data deduplication (entity resolution) framework written in python and Java.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.)

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Socialbrite’s mission is to shine a light on the best practices, social tools and strategies that will benefit each of these important constituencies.”. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Social Media: What's Working Vs. What's Distracting | MCN (Free). Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Nonprofit Tech Trends for 2016. Upcoming Events. Communications Networking Lunch.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. But what that really means is that nonprofits in more than 75 cities have access to free training and networking events every month! You like numbers? Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The panel "The New Connectivity: Storytelling for the Digital Age" focused on best practices for nonprofits and other social good organizations to spread their message over social media. Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Create Documentaries for Your Cause.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. In many cases, Martus also helped users turn those first-hand accounts into evidence of abuse in order to advance their causes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. 1 trackback } Wild Apricot Blog : Tech Support for Free and Open-Source Software 08.20.08

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own websites, blogs, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

. - This is an independent, community-nominated, community-voted event created in 2012 that aims to publicly recognize the excellent individuals and organizations that have maximized the capabilities of Drupal open source content management system. The best advocacy website is Global Zero developed by Advomatic & Free Range.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

At the top of her list is the Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C, the group responsible for official standards, web protocols, and practices. In addition to online resources, there are also on-the-ground events and conferences organized around the topic of accessibility and assistive tech. Tools for Free. and Ottowa.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First up is our talented Tech team! The Forum One Tech team helps mission-driven organizations plan ahead to solve technical challenges before they become major digital infrastructure problems. The tech team has several divisions that, working together, contribute the diversity of skills and techniques our clients need.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). LFP also points to a free basic class on online privacy that is hosted on the Internet Archive. A patient identity integrity toolkit including model data practices. Online Security for Libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology. Nonprofit Tech Software + Mobile Phones = Citizen reporting? million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. from Tim Davies and Practical Participation. Games for Change and Virtual Words Nick Booth points to Free Rice, an online edugaming for good.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The tag is an example; there is no text being displayed, rather the tag tells your browser to display an image (which is a type of source) from another place online where it's being hosted. The web inspector feature is symbolic of the open-source culture surrounding web development. This is best practice. Codepen.lo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Reports, Conferences, and Webinars The Pew Internet and America Life Project recently released report on the "Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" has created a buzz in the nonprofit tech spaces. Katya Andresen points us to " Story Telling As Best Practice " online free training with Andy Goodman.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. In so doing, we launched Benetech’s newest program, SocialCoding4Good.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Just tech savvy people? If you don’t need to guarantee 100% uptime and don’t anticipate high traffic, there are free hosting options such as DreamHost. Maintenance can be fairly routine, but it still takes time and we needed to free up staff to work on other things. Tip 4: Assess the site’s daily workflow. Technophobes?

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