Forum One

MARCH 20, 2024

Platforms like Contentful and Contentstack were created with Composable Architecture in mind and brand themselves more as Content-as-a-Service platforms than a full CMS or DXP. On the open-source front, Drupal and WordPress have been a little slower to move when it comes to Composable Architecture.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As organizations move forward with engaging their stakeholders, effectively connecting, understanding and acting on data is top of mind. In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards. For those building AI tools, keeping harm reduction in mind at every stage of the development process is critical. Understanding the limits of a given AI is crucial in defining ethical use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. But for now, and until I change my mind (I like to keep my options open), this blog will be inactive. And besides, the landscape has changed somewhat – in some ways better, in some ways worse.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS. Stay tuned as we plan on releasing it on Drupal.org as an open source solution for all to use!

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Platforms like Contentful and Contentstack were created with Composable Architecture in mind and brand themselves more as Content-as-a-Service platforms than a full CMS or DXP. On the open-source front, Drupal and WordPress have been a little slower to move when it comes to Composable Architecture.

Digital 70

Digital Experiment Drupal API 70

Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

It’s medicine, it serves as critical fuel for our bodies and minds, and it provides comfort and a sense of safety. 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. Food is more than nutrition.

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Hunger Impact Ideas Homeless 93

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Our strong cryptography technology, Martus —a free, open source, secure information management tool-makes it easier for groups working with vulnerable populations keep the sensitive information they collect confidential. As technologists with a focus on creating social good, we need to keep in mind principles of safety and ethics.

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Technology Open Source Data Exercise 192

Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

With that in mind, here are three tips to help you choose the right CMS for your nonprofit website: Define your website needs. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Compare top platforms.

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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 Afghanistan. Brian Strandtman, VP of solution engineering at Salesforce and a U.S.

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Skills Afghanistan Open Source Volunteer 59

Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

About Kindful Kindful was founded with a simple idea in mind: nonprofits should be able to spend less time focused on their database and more time focused on their mission. 7+ years of software development experience with an emphasis on Ruby on Rails is best, but we will consider other open-source backgrounds as well (Python, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. Susie has a great sense of humor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

It has become a powerful platform, and there is a lot you can do with it – but it was never designed with content or visual design in mind. I’ve spent quite a bit of time with this one, and more to come, I’m sure – like any open source project, there is a lot that could be done to make it more usable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. While easy to set up, designing an effective bot for a nonprofit from scratch can be daunting. It’s available for free to other nonprofits through BotsForCharity.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment. Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. Integrations, scalability, and speed to market are all things to keep in mind when selecting digital tools. Think in Terms of Conversions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

For Firefox, it means, “open source, community-powered.&# So now I think I agree with the Mozilla Foundation that a good metaphor for open source as any is that it is to software what “organic&# and probably “fair trade&# is to food. I thought, what does that really mean?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

With that in mind, we wanted to share the top ten examples of our community sharing what they know with each other from the past year. Are you using Google+ Open source vs proprietary CMS Just what is a data scientist anyway? They''re always willing to help each other out and share their knowledge.

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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. Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Rachel Machen.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As Beth described it earlier, “it is actually a methodology best described as a mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system.”. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. BuJo for nonprofit professionals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for. One such platform was Typepad. Now, there is.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. Let’s take Salesforce, for example.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2015

Minds on Design Lab. You can likely find a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution to sign up for, a license to purchase, or open source solution to download all that offer complete working solutions to use "out of the box" to address your need. Seth Giammanco. Principal, Strategy & Technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Built as an open-source Drupal tool, the website attempts to learn what visitors want from the TCWS site and deliver related content over time. While resources and budgets can certainly drive the development of advanced tools, keeping a few tips in mind can help any organization scale up their offerings: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is a good blog article , which, in some regards, might be seen as a criticism of the dataportability.org group, but which, to my mind, actually defines quite well what I’ve thought data portability means. tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. An exploration of options with my own particular requirements in mind. 4) Blackbaud Buys Kintera.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. It is actually pretty mind-boggling. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Before I took off, I wanted to mention a few things that have been on my mind (and on my plate.) It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. One of which is called Elgg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Joanne Fritz asks the question that is probably on the minds of lots of folks in the nonprofit sector: what are we going to do in facing the current problematic economic climate? Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. Be Helpful.

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Consultant Open Source Nonprofit Hosting 111

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Keep in mind, however, that all CRMs and donor databases are different – each has its own database structure, definitions of key terms, and attributes for handling certain data types. For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. It’s your piece of mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Built as an open-source Drupal tool, the website attempts to learn what visitors want from the TCWS site and deliver related content over time. While resources and budgets can certainly drive the development of advanced tools, keeping a few tips in mind can help any organization scale up their offerings: 1.

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Build Community Experiment Las Vegas 46

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Open source. Open Source – API. Seth Giammanco is a Principal and the lead technologist at Minds On Design Lab, a design and technology studio that serves as a partner to nonprofit organizations. Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind."

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