Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. This year, Twitter has joined the fray. Requests stay up for five months or until they’re fully funded. The cool part?

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding. So what does this mean for you, o struggling nonprofit organization? This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. How would you fund it? Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Funding goal. Kickstarter is an "all or nothing" funding scheme. Let's say you want to make a documentary about the World Cup. Pledge levels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

In general, it seems like most models depend on some sort of up-front funding, whether it be an investment or a grant, to fund the initial writing of a large amount of content. The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Raise funds. Open source. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth. Open Source – API. HandsOn created a page on their site to showcase the livestreamed panel discussion on volunteering and leadership, and encouraged online participation through its live Twitter stream and Facebook stream on the website page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

to fund research in an attempt to address critical social problems. We collaborated with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , the Nonprofit Finance Fund and Steppenwolf Theatre Company to share the findings of a study on consumer brands and Millennials to find winning strategies for engaging young people. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Tools social media Twitter NetSquared' The buzzword then was Web 2.0, What Is Web 2.0?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) This reminds me of a true story. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

If you’re one of those nonprofits, you’re likely on a tight budget so you can use the most funds possible to achieve your organization’s goals. There are templates for specific social media sites — such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest — as well as a general template. There are more than 1.5

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute. Connect & Learn more.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter. I’ve always done side projects part time, but never had the courage or funds to go at it full time. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Where did the idea for OpenAction begin?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

UNF has a YouTube channel and uses Twitter to engage support online. Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! One tactic is going online. Rockstar Beth Kanter presented on social media ROI.

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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. One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Leslie Poston also known as "geechy_girl" on Twitter writes about social media and is a trainer. Connie Reece advises nonprofits on social media strategies and is the visionary behind the Frozen Pea Fund. Laura Lee Dooley. Michelle Murrain.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. If fraud is suspected, the company will reverse the fund transfer. Basically, Hacker Helper ensures that developers come to the hackathons prepared to code instead of wasting the first day doing research. You have to trust Square.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports. More and more, now we can.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

You can share both your Facebook and Twitter feeds on your site while giving your donors the opportunities to share their donations and involvement. But don’t forget, donations are encouraged and appreciated seeing as that’s how the project is funded, so donating will only make the product better for you! Why We Love It.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

Staying true to the open source movement that is Giving Tuesday, The Office of University Development focused on overall awareness for Giving Blueday but gave the participating schools, colleges, units, and organizations the freedom to add messaging for “why them.” Advanced Planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

His definition: projects that are not well funded. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Ruby on Rails Case Study; ChangingThePresent.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html. Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

This is, for sure, one of the most robust open source CMS to CRM integrations out there, and one that seems to be getting pretty close to providing very powerful integration “out-of-the-box&# – instead of having to piece things together and do customized code, which is more common than not. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Thus, every single penny of their income comes from donations that nonprofit organizations raise to, theoretically, fund the missions of their work. How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. But, hey, why not? David 2 admin 09.03.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Basically, the cool thing is that you can choose which school projects to fund – so if I’d like kids to have more hands-on science experiences, I can fund projects to buy things like microscopes … wait, what?? DonorChoose – I am both fascinated and horrified by this site. Microscopes? Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 2001, we focus on serving the nonprofit sector and provide technology consulting, strategic assessments, print and web design services and open-source CMS implementation. Today, social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are now where your customers are—no ifs, ands or buts. Why, you ask?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html. Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. What’s unique and useful about it is that it can be configured to integrate with your Twitter and Facebook accounts. At a cost of only $.99, Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html. Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

CiviCRM – Best open-source nonprofit event management software Overview: CiviCRM offers an open-source CRM for nonprofits. Peer-to-peer fundraising capabilities to empower your community to promote your merchandise and raise funds on behalf of your organization. per user per month.

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