Care2

MAY 24, 2010

When Facebook launched their Open Graph API last month they thought they had revolutionized their platform. They certainly did not expect some of its own users to organize international boycotts like Quit Facebook Day or petitions by some of the largest grassroots organizations like MoveOn and the ACLU.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Terri has over 30 years of success in higher education, politics, international affairs, and nonprofits, including roles as Provost at Menlo College, Vice Provost at University of Texas at Austin, and positions on numerous boards. She has a B.A.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

That support includes the sharing of best practices in accessible book production, model agreements for readers with disabilities, and open source access technology for reading the books. That is the miracle of a robust website: it doesn’t cost much more for it to serve twice, or even ten times, as many people.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Currently our internal model cards are used to guide data quality considerations and planning improvements. Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards. Candid produces model cards for all AI tools we build and deploy in our systems.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

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. As a human-centered designer and innovator, Amy believes in the power of design and technology to create positive change in the world.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

When we started, we were creating an internal tool for project management and quality assurance. Mid-stream we realized something phenomenal: We could make this platform 100% open to the public and not hold our performance data behind a curtain. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. It isn’t perfect.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There is a lot of experiments and research in different areas, including the international development sector to address the 2030 development goals, emergency and humanitarian aid, medical fields and many others. Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g.,

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection. Open-source P2P texting platform great for managing field work that uses Heroku, AWS, and Twilio. FrontlineSMS. 05 per message sent, $.03

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Hamid Karzai International Airport.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

A couple weeks back, IntraHealth International — a supporter of TechSoup Global — launched a terrific new collaboration with great music artists, technologists, and health care workers in order to further benefit programs for urgent health needs in Africa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

A Better Website : A visually appealing and responsive website, which was built on the open-source Drupal Content Management System (CMS), allowed us to better serve all of our audiences. Meanwhile, the multiple content types and dynamic feeds made it easier for our staff to manage everything internally.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 10, 2013

At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer - The Washington Post : hree years later, the foundation’s thesis has given rise to an open-source software platform called Mobile Technology for Community Health, or MOTECH, that an increasing number of nonprofits, non-governmental organizations and humanitarian groups (..)

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. He says that NGOs' international reach and abundance of data makes using data analysis and mapping technologies crucial. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies. Open Source philanthropy data open data big data maps Social Progress Index'

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2013

Here on the TechSoup blog you have heard from an accidental hacker at a hackathon , our Senior Director of Global Data Services formerly from the Ford Foundation , and also our data digests from our colleague at GuideStar International on the power of data. Open Source data NetSquared TechSoup Event apps'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

November 26, 2007 I’m going to Zagreb, Croatia to be at Aspiration’s Open Translation event. It will be my first international open source event, and it’s an amazingly interesting topic. I’m really looking forward to it. So I am so excited to be going. Be Helpful.

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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. Other times they would refuse to show us a product that a client was interested in because of an internal decision to promote product A over product B. Here my perspective.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! 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).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

Unfortunately, there is no HIPAA equivalent for international human rights and humanitarian information. To make strong security accessible to the community involved in human rights documentation, we developed Martus —a free, open source, secure tool for collecting and managing sensitive information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

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. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Establish an internal governance structure. Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress. What are the top 3-4 messages you want to get across to them through the user journey? At which point in their user journey are they finding content most valuable? Take and agile approach.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. A 2017 study conducted by Amnesty International showed that Black women are 84 percent more likely than White women to be mentioned in abusive tweets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

This portion was an internally focused effort based on conversations with our team. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. We rely on open source tools for information exchange and development tools, as appropriate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. The notion that BCG Canada employees would use the same platform to connect around social impact that they are already using for internal communications made perfect sense.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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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. CTO, Greenpeace International. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Open Source Commons and Community Sprints , where our Salesforce-savvy community gathers to co-create solutions together. Specific programs in this area include: Trailblazer Community , a space where our community of customers can learn relevant skills, connect to other Trailblazers, and give back together. About the Authors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Dave suggested we rename our idea Martus, the Greek word for “witness.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Connecting to the Internet Digital Divide GreenTech International Networks Green IT WiFi tsgreentechnology BRCK Ushahidi'

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