Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

of all revenue raised in 2016. Source: 2016 Charitable Giving Report. Source: 2017 Benchmarks Study. 21% of peer-to-peer fundraising dollars raised are the result of a direct click-through on social media. Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened.

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Care2

MAY 24, 2010

Portability's one approach; another is to put the social graph under an individual's control from the beginning which Diaspora , a new open source social network being built by a few NYU college students is attempting.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. Just yesterday, I spotted this programmer's blog post about why he has opted NOT to provide his work as Open-Source. image posted as [link]

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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Interaction Nptech Open Source Houston 215

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system. Of course, since MySQL is open source, there is no danger of MySQL going away, someone can always fork it.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2013

But then you get into problems of time, scale, and cost, because really, mobile needs to be thought of holistically, not in some piecemeal, “Oh, the Red Cross raised a lot of money , so we should do a mobile fundraising campaign, too” kind of way.

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Map Mobile Technique Open Source 78

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 veteran, was one of the first volunteers to raise his hand to help. “In and Afghani citizens from tyranny.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

When you focus your attention on better fundraising, you’ll be able to lead the way in your organization raising more and using your funds more efficiently. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. Better fundraising ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. This year, Twitter has joined the fray.

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Social Media Interview Challenge Classroom 120

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When donors cover processing fees, nonprofits take home about $99 for every $100 raised. GoFundMe Platform overview: GoFundMe is a crowdfunding platform that has helped raise over $25 billion in donations since 2010. Drupal Platform overview: Drupal is also an open-source CMS that many nonprofits use to build secure, scalable websites.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Here’s Carie Lewis explaining how the Humane Society attracted one million Facebook fans ; in another post, Jeff Achen describes the role social media played when GiveMN raised $16.3 Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.”

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Open Source Case Study Museum Social Media 65

Achieve

JANUARY 24, 2017

The goal of the Great Give is to raise as much money as possible for a slew of local nonprofits in just one day. Our team decided to leverage the extensibility and scalability of the Drupal open-source content management system to ensure the site could handle the sustained load of 24-hours of giving. Great Give. website on Jan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The interesting thing, too, is that their model is that they take a percentage of what you raise (5%.) open source, etc. Vote for them , especially the one I’m helping out with (David Geilhufe is the spearhead) on open source CRM. Under my hat is a blog post about open source and SaaS.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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Interaction Houston Open Source Austin 76

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

Additionally, fundraising leaders like yourself need to come up with ways to not only continue engaging with existing donors but also recruit brand new supporters and raise more awareness for their mission. If you want to raise a large amount of money and increase awareness of your mission, a multi-channel approach is your best bet.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods." in cash for their organizations! ." in cash for their organizations!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

One question was raised, and I want to share my response as it is something I’ve been asked by foundations and philanthropists before: what are the biggest mistakes funders can make when supporting tech innovation? can be harnessing technology to improve their work and impact. Debunking Myths About Funding Tech Innovation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit. I was, of course, surprised (that’s mild, I was frankly horrified – wasn’t it the mission of this certain nonprofit to help the client nonprofits raise money?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

For example Edgeflip , a new initiative plans to turn the ad hoc data analysis tools developed for the campaign into software that can make nonprofits more effective at raising money and recruiting volunteers. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is today, December 3rd.

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Impact Technology eBook Student 140

Care2

MAY 8, 2012

The panel on Changing the World with Open Source will discuss how open source is literally revolutionizing the world and offer some great case studies on how the wikimedia foundation used Drupal and CiviCRM to raise $16M online. Register now! AFP TechKnow – June 4-5th.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 18, 2008

John Crossman (Benetech's Director of Engineering) and I attended an interesting and exciting Google Open Source talk on AxsJAX at Google this week, by Charles Chen (the developer of FireVox) and T.V. It was very understandable, and has really made me think this week about how AxsJAX ties into my Raising the Floor theme.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. When you train individuals to be better fundraisers , you’ll raise more money.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

We use those tools and techniques to raise awareness for an organization or cause to help them find supporters for their mission, and ultimately raise money, recruit volunteers, or anything else to help them with their mission. Q: What is a digital agency? We had built our system well before WordPress became popular.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Like getting underneath the surface issues of the recent CRM vendor mergers, or getting underneath issues relating to open source software. I don’t think I live up to that quite as well as I’d like, given my preference for open source solutions. at 6:50 pm Dear Michelle: Thanks for raising these questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Example Tweet: Nonprofit Raises $8,550 With In-game Text Messaging Campaign: [link] || #fundraising. Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software. fundraising : This hashtag is best used when tagged on to a Tweet that discusses fundraising trends.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? Raise a Glass to Nonprofit Technology (with a Tasty Surprise!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

If you have followed my work over the years, you already know the very personal reasons why Cambodia is in my heart.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The InterHealth OPEN Initiative has brought together a cadre of famous artists including Youssou N'Dour, Nas, Peter Buck from R.E.M. (a 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.

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Africa International Public Open 43

AFP Blog

JANUARY 4, 2012

Celebrities Competing Online For Donors - TheNonProfitTimes : A dozen celebrities representing as many charities have one month to raise as much money as they can with an ultimate prize of winning $25,000. Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the open source web browser Firefox, started each celebrity-charity team off with a $5,000 donation.

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Celebrate Donor Online Open Source 28

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Raise funds. Open source. Open Source – API. Goals: raise funds, create on-site engagement, create a call to action. The five basic goals of using social media within a website are: Build followers within the nonprofit’s social media spaces. Create on-site engagement. Create a call to action. Authenticate.

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Social Media Websites Integration Design 87

Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

The struggle between these groups has always been a cat-and-mouse game, but technology has raised its stakes. In addition, while security is a higher concern for users of technology than other groups, there has yet to be a nimble solution to address the numerous attack vectors.

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Conference Technology Open Source Uganda 52

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Social media doesn't raise money, people raise money." That leaves a relatively small sliver raised via the third party tools typically available on social media. Holly Ross) Numbers : The nonprofit sector runs on 300B in annual giving, and of that 5-7% (20B) is given online, mostly through the donation pages on your website.

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Social Media Tools Media Social 81

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I don’t know how many people have raised this issue, but I think it’s one worth raising. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 10.10.06 at 7:57 pm Interesting that you and Jamie are thinking similar things at the same time: [link] 2 Katrin 10.11.06 at 12:33 am Michelle — thanks for this.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. We are committed to regularly raising the bar on the level of accessibility we can offer. We introduced new formats and new readers to give users not only what they want, but also a choice in how and where they want it. Have an Android device?

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Literacy Program United Arab Emirates Student 166

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Many organizations including the United Nations have used Ushahidi's crowdsourcing tools to raise their voice. These folks do astonishing work. For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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