Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

While many organizations are working on the problem, no one individual, government agency, nonprofit, or school can solve it on their own. At Salesforce.org, her team leads Impact Labs and Open Source Commons to foster community collaboration and inspire innovation on the world’s most pressing challenges.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

VisionLink is honored to welcome yet another resident specialist to our ever-growing VisionLink team. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. As the new Disaster Product Manager for VisionLink, Aaron comes from an extensive and distinguished background. Aaron Titus received his J.D.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government. read more.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Terri is best known for working with leaders to help grow teams and businesses by encouraging empathy and understanding in everything we do. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Data.gov In brainstorming ideas to create Datamasher , the team spent a lot of time perusing data.gov and thinking about making government data more accessible by the average informed citizen. Applications like Datamasher would be far more numerous and effective if government made its data accessible over APIs. Open Standards.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Omnichannel marketing anticipates that audiences may start engaging with your organization on one channel, and then move to another as they progress toward an action—such as becoming a member of your association, signing up for your nonprofit newsletter, or registering for a government service. Establish an internal governance structure.

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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. I also LOVE designing solutions and being a part of the creative process, especially with an experienced and passionate team.”. Sharlene Brown.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Whether that “you” is the government, business, public services, other community members, or even philanthropists.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

More than 35 sessions took place across the Summit’s key event tracks, which included Manage Your Nonprofit, Direct and Expand Your Programs, Grow Fundraising Impact, Drive Marketing Performance, and Govern and Protect Your Data. Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud , Powered by Amazon Web Services was also announced.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. Appalachian Regional Commission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. One day, a few of the team members told me about issues they were seeing among some of their sister agencies.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Decision 1: Must we have data governance policies before we migrate? Data governance represents ‘rules of the road’ for your donor database. Good data governance addresses data quality issues ranging from how you control your data input processes to questions such as ‘How long will you store old records?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. Reach out to our team! Forum One’s technology team works with mission-driven organizations and government agencies to develop and optimize their Drupal website journeys. Since then, there have been nine major releases.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. Reach out to our team! Forum One’s technology team works with mission-driven organizations and government agencies to develop and optimize their Drupal website journeys. Since then, there have been nine major releases.

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2011

At a time when open source technology is exploding in the government sector, it is with great pleasure that we announce the official launch of the ictQATAR web redesign ! The site debuted in early April after a global effort between ictQATAR communications staff and the Forum One team. read more.

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Care2

JUNE 14, 2013

Next week, the Care2 Team will join more than 5,000 passionate volunteers in Washington, D.C. The Care2 team will be all ears to learn how we, as volunteers, activists and nonprofit professionals, can better empower ourselves and others to create social change. for the Points of Light National Conference on Volunteering and Service.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. But, we still have to protect our users from attacks from many repressive governments around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

This past year, our HRP team helped the human rights movement achieve great things. This past year, our HRP team helped the human rights movement achieve great things. Our team members are creating an “accountability toolkit” – a set of innovative techniques for identifying patterns of responsibility for grave human rights crimes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Open Source bid for Third Sector Innovation Exchange. The Government's ??1.2 million invitation to tender for a third sector innovation exchange has prompted an innovative response - an "open source bid" under which people are invited to share ideas with one team that is preparing a proposal.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. 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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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s We think it?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s (See Thomas Friedman?s

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Vancouver, British Columbia: How to Manage a Scattered Nonprofit Team. Chicago, Illinois: Justice Data Lab: Unlocking Government Administrative Data. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Tuesday, May 2, 2017.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Who are they and what are they working on?

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Battle Non Profit submitted by Beth Kanter Using just one special ingredient (a small in-need non profit), three web teams will meet in the heat of Austin to craft an exceptional meal, featuring a tasty new homepage design, a well-seasoned fundraising email and a perfectly balanced social networking plan. THIS is Iron Chef ??? With snacks!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

It must be protected from governments, organized crime, and others who may misuse it. The solution we have been exploring is a semi-customized, open source, secure, data collection and analysis application that makes it easier for social sector users to safely gather and use information more efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms. Freecharity.org.uk Can cell phones ensure a free vote? And here's a Web2.0

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 8, 2022

The most competitive candidates will have the ability to promote Cloud for Good’s #BestTeamEver employer brand and ensure we have the absolute best people on our team. Location: ?Virtual: Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

At the time, Benetech had recruited area nonprofits to participate in four design teams: one on governance, one on funding, one on vision, and one on cost accounting. Said adds that, “Issues around governance are still to be thrashed out.” The idea was to create a common data platform, branded as Service Net.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2017

Nonprofits that work to fulfill missions centered around environmental conservation, refugee support, health care services, or similar activities can draw unwanted attention from criminals and governments alike, including those in their home countries. OpenPGP is an open-source, end-to-end email encryption technology.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

She tells me that big data is not surprisingly mostly collected by companies and to some extent also governments. The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a great advocacy charity in that field. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies (TechCrunch).

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Candid

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Candid Learning teamed up with Open Road Alliance, a longtime advocate of using risk mitigation strategies as a form of social sector strengthening, to develop a new, free eLearning course designed to help funders use risk management to preserve impact in an uncertain world. What else is next for this work and for Open Road Alliance?

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