Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier,TechSoup Global’s Chief Business Development Officer, is a newly minted member of the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) board of directors. It is also a good place for people in nonprofit technology startups, many of them open source projects, to meet with the nonprofit technology community.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Mobilisation Lab: Started by the digital strategy team at Greenpeace International, the Digital Mobilisation Lab is comprised of a growing global network of staff and volunteers dedicated to people-powered campaigning. Cost structures are different and often text messaging is cheap while calls are expensive.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Crowd-based funding for projects – such as Global Giving and Donors Choose. Foundation application?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Forums, in particular, provide an organized structure for meaningful. something together with a variety of open source tools? Based on TechSoup Global's survey of more than 10,000. than keeping those connections close to home on your own website. participation and knowledge sharing. How can we make online community.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong When: Friday, March 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Room A Description: Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. Moreover, the global nature of Black SiS’ operations meant time zones became an issue.

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Candid

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Janet : The dual tragedies of the pandemic and George Floyd’s murder brought into focus structural inequities that have resulted in some funders rethinking their own processes and practices. In recent years, we have realized that making risk management mainstream will only be successful as an open- source community of practice for all.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. 9</sup).

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