Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Source: 2016 Charitable Giving Report. In 2010, only 6% of donors said that an e-appeal motivated a gift. Source: Dunham+Company. Source: 2016 Luminate Online Benchmark Report. Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Source: ReportLinker.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The culture of the Ruby and Rails world, the open source, community-driven, gift economy meritocracy, is very different than the Salesforce.com world – proprietary, business oriented, certifications-focused world. And the great thing is that our company has had such a marriage for a couple of years now, and it works.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

The Most Common Fundraising Tactic on Facebook is an Ask for an Individual Gift. Open Source Software Takes Over #1 Spot for House Social Networks. The Average Cost of a Facebook Like is $3.50 and a Twitter Follower costs $2.05. The Average Value of a Facebook Like is $214.81 over the 12 months following acquisition.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. It could also open the door to an open source project. Here my perspective. I don’t invest in these or other companies that I advise on.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Comic Relief offers gift aid software to other charities : Comic Relief will offer its gift aid claim software to other charities for free from next week, after some charities revealed they might miss the deadline to update their systems.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Let’s make a gift!” Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was an open-source searchable database in which you could enter the idea you were having, say, “community garden,” and up would pop a treasure trove of learning? You might say about the second organization, “Wow!

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Byte Technology

JUNE 2, 2016

When it comes to options that can really help you sell on your site, WordPress—as open source software—puts lots of additions at your fingerprints from third party developers. Shopify will require you to install apps to really make your page pop, however lots of these are free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. As a trainer who designs and delivers trainings on topics related to these courses, releasing these materials to all to use and adapt is a gift. 3) Giving 2.0:

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That means you likely won’t see the results—increased fundraising revenue, increased donor retention rate, increased average gift size—that you would likely see when using a paid solution. The platform contains a donation page builder, nonprofit CRM, recurring gift functionality, and more.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Team up with local news.

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Achieve

JANUARY 24, 2017

Our team decided to leverage the extensibility and scalability of the Drupal open-source content management system to ensure the site could handle the sustained load of 24-hours of giving. Achieve launched phase one of the new. Great Give. website on Jan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Marketing and Fundraising Ideas tells us about how not to ask for a major gift. James Young, writing on Convio’s newish blog, Connection Cafe , talks about how to find, and create, influencers. What are “influencers?&# Read the blog entry. It’s pretty interesting. Be Helpful.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

Whether that’s checking out recent blog posts, your mission statement, or making an online gift, these pages should be obvious within the first 7 seconds. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? You get Women Who Tech. Send an email or leave a comment below).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. Be Helpful.

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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. He loves fundraising and wants to become a major gift officer in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

Last night, there was a couple setting next to me who once airborne, opened their laptops and started talking. It's an interesting idea - built on the ladder of engagement and the concept of a gift economy. Behind me was Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Miro , a HD open source video player.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

As a fundraising professional, it is easy to feel helpless in these conditions as you watch response rates, average gift, and total revenue decrease. Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. In recent years, organizations from Fortune 500 companies to the U.S. The city of Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? Is there a downside to gift economies? You can read about the 'web office 2.0' tools I used here 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. Stop and ask yourself this: when was the last time you went into your CRM and studied donors or gifts older than three years? The vendor services can be more expensive than, say, an independent consultant.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

BroadPoint Technologies Visit BroadPoint Technologies in booth 56 and enter to win a $200 Amazon Gift Card! American Express gift cards, Gold Chocolate Coins, and a free eLearning Course. Good360 Good360 will be raffling off three $50 gift cards from our corporate donors The Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Williams-Sonoma.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

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. Each participant will have the opportunity to win cool raffle prizes ranging from Amazon gift cards to MP3 players and flip cameras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. Then it was time to distribute the gifts , including Flip Cameras and books. They also work many different partners to spread the program so that his organization isn’t doing everything.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We envision taking ProvingIt to an open-source platform, and ultimately offering it across the sector to those who share our desires: to track progress, to be honest about failure, to transform conversations with donors, and to measure impact not just once, but over long periods of time. We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." It isn't dumb dumb.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

Make your donors and sponsors feel appreciated by creating personalized, one-of-a-kind videos that speak directly to your donors or sponsors and the impact their gift has had on your mission. You’ll get more control with this open-source software, but you’ll also benefit from having the backing of those larger companies behind you.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

With automated gift acknowledgments and mobile-friendly forms, your professionalism will never be doubted. With their basic plan, you’ll have access to an online donation page, recurring gift options, transaction and donor data, and unlimited admin access and accounts! Pay even offers a free plan! PayBasic is $0 year with a 2.9%

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. While arts professionals moan about the erosion of support and the disinterest of younger potential donors, Kickstarter is a fertile ground for research into the kinds of projects, presentation styles, and pledge gifts that appeal to this much-desired demographic.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The software should automatically recognize them as such the moment they give the gift that puts them over $5,000 for the calendar year. If Joe Donor calls you 5 minutes after he made a $500 online gift that pushed him into major donor territory, his record should come up on your screen labeled a ‘major donor'.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

On Giving Tuesday 2015 , The Office of University Development at University of Michigan set an example for how this kind of thoughtful planning and preparation can dramatically increase results: 1000 donors completed gifts online within the first 49 minutes. $1 1 million was raised by 10:03 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Or purchase gift items from a socially responsible retail store like Ten Thousand Islands that helps support local artisans and Fair Trade in developing countries. Nancy White got herself an early holiday gift ) It's November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to take advantage of the holiday giving. No worries.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. You can also create sample CDs or USB thumb drives that contain podcast episodes as gifts in goodie bags for special events that your organization holds. Best Practices and Maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Is Facebook becoming the default front end for nonprofits?

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Thanks to the Internet, open data efforts, and open source software projects, a variety of free and low-cost tools are now available that allow NPO/community group staff to dive into mapping. Until recently, these tools were too complicated and expensive for most nonprofit staff to use.

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