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Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. Donors can pledge as little as $.01 FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Open content business models

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There was one interesting model was asking for pledges, and if the pledges got up to a certain amount, the content would be produced. The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack. Be Helpful.

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Tidbits

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When will people learn that to be open, you need to really be open ? Click and Pledge, a company that does SaaS for nonprofits, released a new product, called “Trio&#. This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model.

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The Best Online Safety Resources for YOUR Organization

Tech Soup

It is a noncommercial site that has ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). LFP is a nonprofit and has launched The Library Digital Privacy Pledge of 2015.

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Kickstarter: Funding Creativity in a New (Old) Way

Museum 2.0

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. Pledge levels. While backers can fund you at whatever level between $1 and $10,000 they desire, most Kickstarter projects offer rewards at discrete pledge levels to motivate people to give specific amounts. Let's say you want to make a documentary about the World Cup.

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.