Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Source: 2016 Donor Loyalty Study. Source: 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report. Source: 2017 Benchmarks Study. Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Source: ReportLinker. Source: GlobalWebIndex.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Recent studies suggest that there is a demographic shift happening – social media being more primary communications avenues for Millenials and Gen Y, and email for everyone older. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. The license grants the license holder four "freedoms" - freedom to study, copy, modify, and redistribute the software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Recent studies are finding that for-profit workplaces believe that desktop applications and office documents should not have a social life. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. He outlines what each group can learn from one another.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. in International Studies, Human Rights, from the Henry M. Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Back a few months, I was commissioned to write a c ase study for the ICT Hub about using new media. Susie Halksworth started to write a blog when she was made responsible for implementing the Advice For Life FOSS project, testing free and open source software for the VCS. Yes, I am a case study for the ICT Hub.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. 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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. Recent studies indicate that the value added to the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study. It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# What do you think? Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work. Check them out if you are interested in new technologies breaking down walls in the world of health. "OpenMRS®

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. And so the feedback cycle keeps going. Be Helpful.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

As an example, the ‘Millennial Impact Report’ was a study commissioned by the Case Foundation. The initial study was focused on how Millennials engaged with causes and charities and how they contributed. The initial study was focused on how Millennials engaged with causes and charities and how they contributed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc. Convio is getting into some interesting territory these days.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Charles thought up the site during a lunch conversation with colleagues at a public high school in the Bronx where he was a social studies teacher for five years, and his students volunteered to help start the organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. As it turns out, a high unsubscribe rate correlates directly with high fundraising results.

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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. It features concept de?nitions

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. 3) Giving 2.0:

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. 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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) eCampaigning Ideas | Advocacy Online – "This year's edition of eCampaigning Ideas includes eight great case studies put forward by groups using our software in a number of countries worldwide.

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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 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

There is an interesting case study of the marketing of Tampax and Africa on the Cause Related Marketing Blog. What are “influencers?&# Read the blog entry. It’s pretty interesting. Marketing and Fundraising Ideas tells us about how not to ask for a major gift. Be Helpful.

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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. Before this initiative, critical illustrations in math and science books could only be studied by those reading traditional texts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. Case Study: Custom integration in action. Solution: WordPress Object Sync for Salesforce. For any supported WordPress content types (e.g.,

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. The report was commissioned by the Vodafone Foundation and is packed with useful case studies and supporting data. " Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 know danah boyd. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

I have found this invaluable as a way to move forward in my course of study. . ;-) 2 dilettante 03.11.08 at 9:01 am Most of the units that I have completed in my course (Grad Dip Science Communication) have included a small assignment entitled “Reflection&#. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. Executives at world-class brands such as Ford Motor, Red Bull, Google and Starbucks opened their marketing playbooks to help Steppenwolf learn from their experiments.

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