Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Build Sustainable Apps to Meet Unique Community Needs.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. To do so, we definitely need your help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Now, as a successful tech entrepreneur, I’ve benefited from California’s incredible venture machine, which creates immense value for individuals and for society. To the greatest extent possible, be open. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It would be an understatement to say that I am proud of what Benetech’s team has accomplished since our founding. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool. I can assure you that I am not retiring.

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Forum One

MARCH 20, 2024

Composable has displaced the concept of the all-in-one DXP and allows for different pieces of a tech stack to be moved in and out over time without a complete rebuild. Bottlenecks are a thing of the past with teams no longer needing to wait on stubbed-out views to be created.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Come join our team of talented individuals who are passionate about building relationships within our team, with our partners, and with our customers that enable Kindful to make a real difference in the nonprofit market with our fully integrated online fundraising CRM. You may review designs for some upcoming work with a small group.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But don't be afraid — huddle up for warmth and knowledge with your nonprofit tech friends at a local Tech4Good meetup. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

He helps women-led communications teams free up their time and lock down WordPress from getting hacked. It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Monthly one-on-one video training so your team feels confident using WordPress.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 30, 2014

of Martus —our free, open source, secure information collection and management software—which includes major updates and usability improvements. Last week, the Benetech Human Rights Program released version 4.5 The biggest highlight of this release is that Martus 4.5 We’re very excited about Martus 4.5.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 3, 2015

Two weeks ago, I joined the Salesforce Foundation in a new role as Open Source Manager. Does "Open Source Community Manager" mean that you're the official bff of Nonprofit Starter Pack users? So I opened a trial account and started reading and learning and the more I read and learn, the more I like what I see.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Composable has displaced the concept of the all-in-one DXP and allows for different pieces of a tech stack to be moved in and out over time without a complete rebuild. Bottlenecks are a thing of the past with teams no longer needing to wait on stubbed-out views to be created.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Terri is best known for working with leaders to help grow teams and businesses by encouraging empathy and understanding in everything we do. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Many organizations may not have capacity for one person to be the sole blogger and many times the way into an organizational blog is a team of writers. I think it means nothing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

The Benetech team is delighted by its adoption today. We are a high tech organization that is not organized as a for-profit company, but instead as a nonprofit charitable corporation working to ensure technology serves all of humanity. At Benetech , we like to think of ourselves as part of Silicon Valley’s heart.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

Microsites can seem like a good idea to give nonprofit digital teams a clean slate to create something new. It divides your team’s attention so that they’re working on multiple projects instead of one cohesive website. It takes development teams longer to build and maintain multiple websites than it does one.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From my college dorm room, where I thought that pattern recognition could do more than target missiles, to my first successful high tech company where we built technology that could read just about any font without training, to Benetech’s founding with the Arkenstone reading machine for the blind. That was over 24 years ago!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org to educational institutions like University of Massachusetts Amherst , new climate tech startups like BlocPower , and established global brands like Bentley Motors , learn how organizations across these sectors have taken meaningful climate action. From nonprofits like 350.org With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. More and more, now we can.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The event kicked off with opening remarks by Joan Garry , an industry veteran and champion for the nonprofit sector, which led directly into the first panel discussion on the topic of climate. . years at Salesforce, and her legendary commitment to both customers and colleagues lead to her nickname as the “team mom.” .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating. What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. This is a huge legal victory!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

We may be a nonprofit, but we’re also a tech company: in ten years, we shouldn’t be doing what we’re doing today! That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech has spent a good part of this last year thinking about what's next for our mission and our team. This portion was an internally focused effort based on conversations with our team. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

For the last few months, I have been working on a new collaboration called OpenIssue , which is a growing, diverse, self-reflective and constantly-learning team. We are keenly interested in building on our expertise to integrate these open platforms in really rich ways, to allow organizations to create great online applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

This was developed by the team that Blackbaud acquired when they acquired eTapestry. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. Of course, proprietary software makers use open source software all the time, that’s not the problem. There are no APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

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. Hard to know. Will they continue in that direction?

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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. I also LOVE designing solutions and being a part of the creative process, especially with an experienced and passionate team.”. Sharlene Brown. About the Author.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Funding projects instead of just a specific product ensures that organizations or teams can fail quickly and softly while working towards something better, can invest in research and evaluation, and engage the community not just market to them. Debunking Myths About Funding Tech Innovation. Obviously that’s an exaggeration.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2012

This is a guest blog post from Dave Greenberg, on the CiviCRM Team. CiviCRM is open-source, web-based software that. CiviCRM integrates directly with the popular open-source content management systems – Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. Read on for details. this discount code when you.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We prioritize effective hiring and talent development because we recognize that a high-quality team is the single most valuable tool we can provide to help our clients increase their impact. First up is our talented Tech team! It’s my pleasure to introduce and highlight the extraordinary work of our team. Meet the team.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

So running RHEL on Amazon E2 is a potentially low-cost, low-pain way for nonprofits (with appropriate levels of tech staff, of course) to dip their toes into hosting complex applications on Linux, without having that noisy box in the corner. { In October I went to a presentation by Rick Clark, the Ubuntu Server Team Manager.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

They have rock-solid core development teams, security updates, and over all good code, which you could hardly say about either platform 4 years ago. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms.

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