The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

A team of researchers from cybersecurity firm Claroty in New York City compiled the 36-page report from an open-source review of practices by major healthcare institutions and hundreds of medical device manufacturers in the United States.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

In the very early days of AI at Candid, our grants auto-coding system, which predicts Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) codes from the text, exhibited signs of social biases. Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

The need for open data from NGOs is reiterated, while the way philanthropy has promoted the global Open Government Partnership is explained. While examining the renewed importance of measurement in the world of philanthropy and development, Tom Paulson points to the proposition of a Social Progress Index.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. Philanthropy' I first heard Laura speak when she launched her book , Giving 2.0,

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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. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open Philanthropy is about sharing.

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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. Learn more about how Philanthropy Cloud helps companies put their values into action. Collaboration from anywhere is key to their mission.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. “Companies have a new ability to empower their customers to be philanthropists, to open source their philanthropy and let their customers or employees participate as grant makers,&# he said.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I’m quite excited to participate in The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development Conference in London, UK, put on by Indigo Trust , Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network. Looking at deeper or wider can be more exciting than just new.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

PHILANTHROPY 2173: Mapping the social economy - Great blog post on using design for philanthropy. "At local Penguin Days non-profit organizations explore the range of issues and options involved using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS)." These are some links I wanted to share from April 14th.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. Explore more 2019 hopes, predictions, and trends from philanthropy leaders across the globe. EXPLORE MORE TRENDS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software. philanthropy : This hashtag works best for anything related to grantmaking, foundations and donor trends and behavior. Example Tweet: 130 Foundations That Tweet: [link] || #philanthropy.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform provides training and open-source tools and resources for climate activists, links activists to local groups and campaigns, provides a platform for rapidly evolving content, and also supports a Coal Tracker as the group seeks to end the reign of dirty coal in Africa.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Check out William Grassie's article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy out how the Metanexus Institute shaved $176,000 of their annual budget by shifting to cloud based infrastructure. Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Open Source Privacy Security philanthropy data big data tsopensource tssecurity maps' The greater the amount of personal data that becomes available, the more informative the data gets and with enough data, it’s can be possible to predict a person’s future.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights. Open Source data NetSquared big data'

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Friday, October 14, 2016.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet. Tags: interview maps data openaction opensource philanthropy socialactions. Much like Apple did with the iPhone.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

At that stage in their lives, they were involved in non-traditional philanthropy, like peer-to-peer fundraising and promoting causes they believe in online through social media. We decided in 2016 to pivot toward open source content management systems as the foundation of our technology platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 What Is Web 2.0?

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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.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website. Several NTEN members added their comments to the Chronicle of Philanthropy article , "The Perils of Raising Small Sums on Online Networks", including new NTEN Board member Nancy Schwartz.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. San Francisco, California: An Evening of Tech and Philanthropy: Creating Shared Value for the Bay Area. Chicago, Illinois: Peer-to-Peer Learning Experience: Mission-Driven Digital Storytelling. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Thursday, October 2, 2014. Tuesday, October 7, 2014.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Peter Dietz gives us a video walk through of his site, Social Actions which focuses on micro-philanthropy. Now here's a new term: Green Philanthropy. It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. is the queen of nonprofit philanthropy predictions. Case Foundation bloggers Kari Dunn Saratovsky , Sokunthea Sa Chhabra , and Megan Stohner cover philanthropy, social change, fundraising, and activism. Laura Lee Dooley. Michelle Murrain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Lucy Bernholz , on her Philanthropy 2173 Blog , wrote a post called " Foundations Set Your Content Free where she shares an interesting historical perspective of open sourcing your work. She describes several different systems and share economies. Put my words in quotes if you are quoting text directly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source. Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. New York, New York: First-Generation College Graduate Networking and Philanthropy Conversation. Durham, North Carolina: North Carolina Tech4Good Annual Conference, June 6 – 7, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Sloane Berrent, a Kiva fellow, social philanthropy activist and a former executive at Causecast who’s currently serving a three-month tour in the Philippines. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Foik Micro-Philanthropy Network. Open Source, Open Standards Video. Digital Divide Data's Project: A Networking Resources for Disadvantaged People in Cambodia and Laos. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning. Idealware Nonprofit Software Knowledge Sharing Initiative.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?). Accepting and championing failure and the learning that comes from failure. Developing social innovation leaders. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. to track personal fundraising campaigns.

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