Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

If there are two acronyms that are at the center of nonprofit communications, it’s these two, CRM (Constituent Relationship Management - and I’m making this broad enough to include fundraising) and CMS (Content Management System). First, the what - what to integrate? The old fashioned form of integration. All-in-one.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

For mission-driven organizations, the most common ways to begin personalizing content and outreach are to identify the sources where they are already gathering information or data on audiences and target personas. This includes: Email databases Website analytics CRM systems Online giving platforms. Examples of advanced personalization.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These are generally shared short or long codes that use keywords to organize conversations of multiple organizations that use the platform. 0075 per message sent, $500 in-kind grants for nonprofits available ([link] Twilio studio allows for custom message flows but requires some knowledge of platform to customize. Twilio.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 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…. I’ve been….

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Interaction Nptech Open Source Houston 215

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lori Freeman, General Manager of Salesforce for Nonprofits shared with the NetHope community the newest Salesforce innovation all centered around data: Unifying and protecting data: Salesforce’s partnership with AWS focuses on building open-source integrations to automate deployment and hydration of data lakes.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

As a refresher, omnichannel marketing is about approaching the digital experience through your audience’s eyes and developing a seamless, integrated, and consistent user experience across all channels. You also want to make sure that your content is technically agnostic across multiple devices and platforms (e.g.,

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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. Will Blackbaud continue to develop on both the Salesforce and Infinity platforms? Complex family, social, business, corporate, and financial relationships.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Three key themes emerged from the Summit: The power of building strong relationships to achieve your mission; the importance of flexibility, integration, and innovation to support your mission in times of change and growth; and the value of having secure data to gain deeper insights. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, 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. A Food Access Kit to provide food banks and food pantries with a set of out-of-the-box modules and relationships to get them started on Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

As you know, I have built a long-time expertise in open source software and web applications, particularly Content Management Systems (CMS) and online database systems, including CRM. We are focused on delivering quality web technology solutions to nonprofit organizations and social enterprises.

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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…. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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Interaction Houston Open Source Austin 76

Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. Managing your nonprofit's database is key so you'll need a good CRM to help you manage all your donor relationships. It's not obvious, but it's not rocket science either.

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Tools Open Source Convio Nonprofit 72

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. It costs millions to build a tech platform. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We saw a 108% increase in dollars raised on the Qgiv platform and a 100% increase in the total number of donations to our clients. Choose the right platform that will set you up to get the most out of your campaign. Our platform also provides personal fundraising dashboards for participants and tools for gamifying the campaign.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Social media fundraising is driven by a combination of relationships and immediacy. The most successful campaigns are reactions to real world events or sparks that move quickly through established networks of human relationships. It's immediate (your birthday is a deadline, after all) and it uses established relationships.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

It’s actually a combination of two different functions: The database itself that holds information on your members and the platform that allows you to do things with that information. Not all platforms are created equally! It should also allow you to connect those relationships. What Should Membership Software Include?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

They’re dedicated to helping you strengthen donor relationships while you grow and further your cause. BidPal’s software offers an easy-to-use event website that will help with your brand awareness, event promotion, and social media integration. Why We Love It. Their mobile bidding app! MailChimp is an email marketing software.

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Software Guide Nonprofit Analytics 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Nonprofit Tech for Good is built on WordPress and in our 11 years of publication, there have been zero problems with using the platform. that your nonprofit uses.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Thats because to-date, the major constituent relationship management databases didnt have open platform APIs. SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open.

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API Convio Open Social Media 28

Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Build relationships with supporters. Integrate this tool into your website so visitors can easily change the font size and type as well as change colors to greyscale. . Avoid working with an open-source CMS, which means that the source code is available to the public and your private information can easily be hacked.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I proudly steer some of Forum One’s most complex projects, including Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment’s WIC platform, Washington State’s All-Payer Claims Database, and Fujifilm’s Sonosite. All of the technical solutions we develop enable our clients to easily manage robust platforms.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. It is a specialized cloud database to help nonprofits organizations manage their business, run programs, and maintain donor relationships from any browser and on mobile devices.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Signing up for a new donor management platform is exciting. Back up data regularly to prevent loss and ensure data integrity. OpenRefine is a free, open-source tool that you can download and put to work cleaning up your data. Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system?

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Data Donor Map Test 52

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

User-friendly event management software tools Additional software tools to support nonprofit events Let’s start by defining event management software and exploring key considerations before investing in a new platform. Your event management platform should be intuitive for your nonprofit’s staff to use. Integrations.

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Software Management Registration Nonprofit 80

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

It probably isn't new forms of visitor engagement (no matter how much I write about those relationships). You can set up a free blog via Blogger (my preferred platform) and set it to private, identifying a key set of people who are allowed to author and read posts. the list goes on.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

While I am slightly incredulous of this claim, I have to assume that if true, this is due to building large numbers of components from scratch and/or the work to develop integrations and maintain interoperability across disparate back-end platforms and different agencies. User Adoption and Change Management. Measurement.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « New Study: The Power of the Premium: Convincing Prospective Donors to Give | Main | 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO » Friday Mar 13 2009 Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:32AM | by Tracy Viselli "We have brought the techies and the policy wonks together, and they arent that different."

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