Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Craig Foster, a former Australia National Football Team captain who played 29 times for Australia, led an international campaign to free a young Bahraini footballer and refugee, Hakeem al-Araibi, from a Thai prison.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

PFLAG is the first and largest national chapter-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. PFLAG works to empower individuals to be proud of their identity. After onboarding to Salesforce, the changes were pretty immediate and the results were exciting.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organization in the world with a mission to end hunger. We’re so grateful to Yaroslav for taking the time to share his story with us at NetHope, and I was honored to be a part of it. Rewatch this session on Salesforce+. Data to Rapidly Respond to a Humanitarian Crisis.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History DIY Exhibits. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

This Markets for Good article about the Children’s Museum of Manhattan describes how CMOM has collaborated with National Institutes of Health, providing real-time data to develop a health curriculum for young children through an unusually speedy process. Building a movement through innovative open source tools.

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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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

A little over a year ago, a former CIA systems administrator named Edward Snowden disclosed to The Guardian that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Americans by way of phone records and online communications. These open source tools include apps and tools for encrypting emails, texts, browsing history, and even phone calls.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. Please join us in realizing this “radical” future!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

The competition, judged by a panel of national leaders in public interest computing, is now entering its third year. Check out the new images and videos of Android , the open source phone. The application deadline for this year’s prize: September 1, 2008. Check out the book club , reading Media Rules! Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Trusting in the importance of new ideas. Accepting and championing failure and the learning that comes from failure.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

People’s Action Institute is a national network of state and local grassroots power-building organizations united in fighting for justice. The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. In the 2020 U.S.

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Care2

JUNE 14, 2013

for the Points of Light National Conference on Volunteering and Service. You can register for the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, "Like" the Conference Facebook page , follow @NCVS on Twitter and search the #NCVS Twitter hashtag to follow the conference conversation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

In his January 17, 2014 speech on NSA reforms , President Obama stated: "As the nation that developed the Internet, the world expects us to ensure that the digital revolution works as a tool for individual empowerment, not government control." But it is clear that privacy protections have not kept pace with technological development.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

They started by using technology to connect data across their 4,900 Club locations so that national leaders could gain a real-time view into members’ needs and preferences. . When the pandemic hit, BGCA quickly realized they needed to rethink their entire service delivery model in order to continue making an impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her broader national goal notwithstanding, Majora remains deeply passionate about and involved in revitalization of the South Bronx. One such idea I brought up is reshoring—that is, bringing well-paid factory jobs back home from overseas, and particularly to the South Bronx as a hub of local sourcing and production.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. Hmmm, think it was that keyword? Two whole pageviews. I find that fascinating. Be Helpful.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

It is part of the AfDB’s ‘ Africa Information Highway ’ initiative, which enabled the introduction of live data links between the AfDB, National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and relevant ministries in all 54 countries. Is Open Data Just A Flash in the Pan Movement? Open Source data NetSquared big data'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

If you know someone who’s been toiling in the open source vineyards, developing software that’s helping nonprofits succeed, check out the Tides Foundation Pizzigati Prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. It includes recommendations for local and national not-for-profit organisations who provide support to young adults." " Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!)

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2007

This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

Beth Kanter of Zoetica Media is the moderator, along with fellow panelists Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mark Horvath of Invisible People and Jessica Dheere, of Social Media Exchange Beirut in Lebanon. During the session, I captured the presentations and audience Q & A.

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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. Long-time users of Twitter are concerned about hate and harassment after Elon Musk recently acquired the company, as some accounts that were previously banned for violating the platform’s content policies are now reinstated.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data. and James L.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. WordPress Platform overview: WordPress is a free, open-source CMS, meaning anyone can view and change the software’s code to suit their needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. Have an Android device?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

(a fav of mine), Duncan Sheik, and others to help raise awareness and support of putting open-source software technologies directly in the hands of health care and aid workers around the globe. Open source technologies let us address health challenges collaboratively with African developers in the lead," said N'Dour.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Some changes organisations must now deal with include new national data privacy laws in the private and/or public industry, compliance with the EU’s Data Protection Directive and excessive government surveillance. Open Source Privacy Security philanthropy data big data tsopensource tssecurity maps'

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

One of the many sessions in Hyderabad that I'm really excited about is a discussion on intellectual property with Richard Jefferson of Cambia , John Wilbanks of Science Commons , Phil Weilerstein of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance , and Ashoka fellow Bright Simons of mPedigree.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now.

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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. After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. ” Paul Connolly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Since its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Declaration has become a universal standard for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. This analysis is now helping to reframe how sexual violence is studied and understood by groups in Colombia and by the United Nations. and the European Union.

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