Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The quality of the search results were limited by our querying capabilities and relevancy ranking. The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

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. Source: ReportLinker. Source: 2017 Charity Digital Skills Report.

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See3

APRIL 28, 2009

Leading provider of online fundraising, education and advocacy for nonprofits partners with the first open-source video platform. That they are open source is a huge added benefit to our clients and the greater nonprofit community.&#. As an open source platform, Kaltura is unique among online video solutions.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Indeed, there are impressive Open Source solutions that not only can easily be customized to meet the unique needs of virtually any nonprofit mission, but considerable talent and expertise to guide these organizations through the process. This data is literally the life’s blood of the organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ve not had any experience with Springboard, but it’s important to understand that it is not open source, and is only maintained by one shop. Right now, there is an alpha release for Drupal 6, which is alpha in that very humble open source sense – it’s being used in quite a number of production sites.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

Unfortunately, the causes of hunger are as complex and varied as the results. As a result, while we produce more food than ever before, one in nine people still go hungry, and two billion people don’t get access to nutritious food. Opens new window. We Need Your Help: Share Your Ideas for Addressing Hunger. About the Author.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? Well, we have some data from Europe : FLOSS potentially saves industry over 36% in software R&D investment that can result in increased profits or be more usefully spent in further innovation. The evidence seems to be growing.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Misclassifying sensitive population groups results in an incorrect understanding of the work being done in the sector, who is being served, and where grant dollars are still needed. Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

In the next sections, read more about how we worked to bring our Salesforce implementation to life with Fionta, and the results that followed. Results Following Implementation. After onboarding to Salesforce, the changes were pretty immediate and the results were exciting. Salesforce Implementation.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

As of now, the sector has not widely adopted the enormous value of safely sharing learning, iteration, and pivots, so we rely on outward representations of seemingly all positive results. They opened up the same mechanism in year two and received a stack of proposals with bold and innovative ideas. Their response in year two?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) tools to help your site pages rank on search engine results pages. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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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. What Were The Results? and supporting small farmers in remote areas globally. and identified many opportunities for change.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS. End result: a user-friendly personalization tool. Stay tuned as we plan on releasing it on Drupal.org as an open source solution for all to use!

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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. Giving back to an effort that resulted in over 753 evacuees reaching the U.S. and Afghani citizens from tyranny.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation is driven by a mission to help keep the Internet an open, global, public resource accessible to all. Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Would you be willing to donate a recording of yours?

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

An Open Book. One of the most laudable attributes of WordPress is that it’s an open-source CMS: there’s an entire community of users backing it up and creating thousands of plug-ins—beyond the basics that come with the starter version of the platform—that make it faster, prettier and more efficient. Money Talks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of this pilot, 19 people representing organizations large and small are working together this year to try to unlock and solve some of the challenges nonprofits face when it comes to: measuring and managing data making data-informed decisions and sharing the results with colleagues, partners, funders, and the public.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 30, 2010

I think it is one of the long list of unpredicted successes that resulted from the near-ubiquitousness of open source software on the server side. I’ve been getting to know Amazon S3 lately, and there are some great things about it. We’ve been using it for “offsite&# backup for drupal sites for a while now.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

This stage of personalization doesn’t require automation, and you can test and gauge impact by simply monitoring opens and click-through rates. While your website analytics can provide this information, certain technologies can also help you automate the process and make it easier to test and adjust based on the results.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Our strong cryptography technology, Martus —a free, open source, secure information management tool-makes it easier for groups working with vulnerable populations keep the sensitive information they collect confidential. Case in point: our accessible online library, Bookshare.

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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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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

Awe-inspiring to say the least, given the free and open-source content management system (CMS) is just over a decade old. As the top plug-in for WordPress, SEO by Yoast optimizes a site’s content to ensure the absolute best Search Engine Optimization results, as well as provides editing features and much more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. And finding a secure, modern hosting partner that can support an evolving open-source website isn't as simple as checking the yellow pages. How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Amy has been in the tech industry for over 15 years, always focused on partnerships, connection, and results-oriented action. Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

This laser focus can be helpful in grabbing attention and driving results. If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph. January 4, 2008 Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0 2 admin 01.04.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

But will it get better as a result? In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) Blackbaud’s other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired. Be Helpful.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Indeed, with an open-source platform like WordPress—and not to mention the thousands of plug-ins and themes available to users—it should come as no great surprise that bugs, security holes and the like are constantly being discovered and, unfortunately, exploited by nefarious hackers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Examples of open government data reuse in US by private corporations and nonprofits is also highlighted and a webinar to help those that also want to use it is being hosted this month. Open Government Data. 7 Ways Companies Are Using the Government's Open Data. Strengthening the Demand For and Use Of Open Data Initiatives.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That means you likely won’t see the results—increased fundraising revenue, increased donor retention rate, increased average gift size—that you would likely see when using a paid solution. View Bloomerang’s customer results page for more success stories from organizations that have made the switch to Bloomerang. for ACH transactions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? { Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. This is, of course, great news. Be Helpful.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2014

Similarly, if you launch an email outreach, your results might be very strange initially. If you want to even dive deeper, there''s some great open source materials available.' If you flip a coin 6 times, there is a good chance that it won’t be 50% heads and 50% tails. Want to dive in deeper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The buzz has been going full blast about Google's Open Social API, from TechCrunch to ZDNET. The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? Open standards help long term.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

These are techniques even smaller organizations can implement every day to improve their marketing efforts, see more impressive results, and gain even more loyalty from their communities. This kind of content gets shared and spreads the word, and it keeps people opening your emails, and even looking forward to them.

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