NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of this pilot, 19 people representing organizations large and small are working together this year to try to unlock and solve some of the challenges nonprofits face when it comes to: measuring and managing data making data-informed decisions and sharing the results with colleagues, partners, funders, and the public.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

This focus on partnerships across social justice and climate justice movements resulted in 350.org’s From creating more green campuses to encouraging research and dissemination of sustainability knowledge, education institutions around the world have an important role to play in creating a more sustainable future for all.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

An effective omnichannel strategy relies heavily on an intimate knowledge of your audiences and their interests and needs. Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress. Make sure you really understand your audiences. Take and agile approach.

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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. View Bloomerang’s customer results page for more success stories from organizations that have made the switch to Bloomerang. for ACH transactions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Advice for nonprofits on going from web forms to results. Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. *This post was originally published on 12/3/2017, and it was updated on 06/17/2021.

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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. resulting in contaminated water, food, and lungs of communities nearby. Executive Director, Valley Clean Air Now.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

As it turns out, a high unsubscribe rate correlates directly with high fundraising results. The checkins functionality in the Ushahidi Platform is one of the first open source checkin products that crosses multiple mobile platforms.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

This webinar on 18 June which is supported by Global Integrity and the World Bank Institute will explore how to maximize the usage and relevancy of open government data through using examples and recommending strategies and tools. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Image: Edgeflip logo.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

The people who run the organization need to support it and the people the project is being planned for need to be expecting and anticipating the end result. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. The keys to managing a successful project are buy-in and communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Vancouver, Canada: Small Changes for Big Results: How to Optimize Your Online Donations. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Chicago, Illinois: Peer-to-Peer Learning Experience: Mission-Driven Digital Storytelling. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Thursday, October 2, 2014.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

This results in content recommendations that target gaps in your members’ knowledge. Seeking an open-sourced platform and the ability to adjust to changing learning needs quickly. To address this, an LXP recommends content based on the: Needs of the organization, industry, and market. A Move Toward Personalization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

As a result, there are some gaps that we don’t have the time to give the attention that they deserve, or we have tried to find replacements and have been unable to come up with anything with which we are happy. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. It’s very basic. You can nest menus.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Important constituent data sits in numerous, proprietary applications and formats, and frequently is duplicated in several data repositories that can only be resolved manually by a staff member or volunteer when he or she has time to run reports and then compare and sort the results.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

The idea that web stats = some measure of nonprofit accountability is a result of a mindset that suggests that web presence should be the central part of a nonprofit’s communications strategy, and that raw numbers of visits has some relationship to how well a nonprofit works. That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we faced up to really measuring the results of our work? What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? The presentation covered the background, planning, organizational culture, tool selection, blogging, building an audience, and results. Good or bad thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies? So, the resulting report should be fascinating. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

We Get Stuff Done Benetechers are intensely results focused. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses. We respect our partners’ knowledge.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

This open-source packaged solution sits on top of Sales Cloud. NPSP, together with Sales Cloud, enables organizations with prebuilt solutions based on typical nonprofit use cases. These interactions, whether initiated through phone, email, or AI-powered chatbots are all tracked and consolidated to the benefit of your programs.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The results are greater than an individual or organization could accomplish alone. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. Collective intelligence creates a quilt of knowledge that many people can distribute.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

How can we talk about technology in social change, while, at the same time, publishing in a format that limits the availability of this knowledge to people privileged enough to pay for it? They say: Published research results and ideas are the foundation for future progress in science and medicine. That tradeoff really does exist.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. DoGooder Video Award Winners.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Along the way, we’ll explore ways you can create this content using just an iPhone and some CMS knowledge, making each idea accessible for small-shop nonprofits without a ton of marketing capacity. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. The owners found each other via social media and the project was born from the interaction,” Ward said.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Customization tools that don’t require extensive authoring or programming knowledge. Mobile-responsive design for all interactive elements.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Personally, I have been futzing around with learning R (a statistical/data manipulation language) and have passing knowledge of a lot of the concepts that these fellows addressed—machine learning, natural language processing, etc. Ah, well, that didn’t come to pass, and my finance knowledge sits largely, sadly, unused.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Storify :: storify.com.

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Candid

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Ultimately, this course democratizes the research, knowledge, and tools that we’ve developed over the years. 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. That’s a reward we all need.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. I mean it's really heavily influenced by the open source community and the ethos of sharing. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Storify :: storify.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Storify :: storify.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” Storify is a new tool that allows you easily search multiple social networks by subject or theme and then through drag and drop functionality, you can organize the results (tweets, status updates, videos, photos, etc.) TweetCharts :: tweetcharts.com.

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