The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Amplify Your Impact: Integrating Tech for Peak Nonprofit Efficiency In a world where technology moves at lightning speed, nonprofits are often left grappling with the tailwinds of rapid change. But what if you could harness this relentless pace to catapult your mission forward?

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2021

To help celebrate, here are five things you can do to help ensure your next digital product, project, or service makes the web a more inclusive place. When you remove barriers, you open up possibilities. The post 5 Things You Can Do to Make the Web a More Inclusive Place appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2021

Each year Nonprofit Tech for Good features a new set of online fundraising tools that are timely and relevant for the year to come. The prizes are high-end and often involve celebrities, so it’s not an open platform for all nonprofits, but if your nonprofit has a connection with an influencer, Omaze could be for your nonprofits.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Over 50% of emails are opened and over 65% of social networking happens on mobile devices. Nonprofits know that it is important to gather data, but many often lose sight of what exactly they were trying to accomplish by gathering that data in the first place. Utilization of data will be critical. Cost control.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 28, 2020

Will venues be open? The event website is also a good place to communicate any pertinent information, including cancellation policies and contingency plans. A web-based event management platform keeps all the information you, your team, and the golf facility need in one convenient place. Golf Tech for Nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. Thanks to MobileActive.org and the Open Mobile Consortium for a fabulous event. Tags: CRM Mobile Nonprofit Tech Open Source Open Standards civicrm nptech opensource. Also, check out the twitter stream for the #omc09 hashtag. I learned a ton.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2008

Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. There’s lots of great details on Groklaw.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

If there were holdouts on giving IT a pivotal place in the organization, the pandemic shifted that perspective. That openness is a gateway to innovation and creative problem-solving. They were regarded a little like sorcerers hanging out in the shadows creating marvels with tools that weren’t well understood by the rest of the office.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Those thoughts are also a source of existential dread, even for people working at a tech company like Eventgroove! The opening should read ‘Dear X’ Prizes that might just top last year’s hot-air balloon ride in wine country and the extremely popular paint-your-pet portrait class! Include a strong call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective. A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With a focus on nonprofits, Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good recently took her first steps into the metaverse using an Oculus Quest 2, and below are her top five tips for getting started. So, before opening the box: ? Decide who at your organization will be the primary admin for your Oculus account. Explore and have fun.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While smart tech-based strategies will improve your efforts right now, they’ll also continue providing value after the pandemic once social distancing guidelines dissipate. When planning your next fundraising event, it’s up to you to decide which tech tactics are worth the time for your organization. According to. Beacons. ,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

It comes out of Kirrily Robert’s keynote at OSCON about women and open source. There has been, of course, a lot said about the fact that although women make up 20% of the tech field, they only are approximately 1.5% of open source communities. of open source communities. Tags: Open Source Technology Zen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

It comes out of Kirrily Robert’s keynote at OSCON about women and open source. There has been, of course, a lot said about the fact that although women make up 20% of the tech field, they only are approximately 1.5% of open source communities. of open source communities. Tags: Open Source Technology Zen.

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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 updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. Defeated in fact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Please use your purchasing power wisely and with compassion this holiday season by giving gifts that benefit nonprofits and make the world a better place. Be the Change Gifts by MercyCorps: Givers can buy gifts that educate AIDs orphans, help women open businesses, or even purchase composting kits and cookstoves for in the developing world.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Keeping this in mind, you’ll need to optimize your nonprofit’s tech. We’ll give you four tips for how you can use tech to improve your donors’ journey at each step: Include a variety of calls-to action pointing to online giving. Remind donors why they’re donating in the first place. Is branded to your organization.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

You may have attended your local Tech Club , as an attendee, speaker, or organizer. NTEN 501 Tech Clubs are informal, local groups that meet regularly in many cities. Why did you start leading your Tech Club? "I I wanted to create a tech club that was more than just a talking head meeting of local nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Mpower Open, the vendor who took their high-end CRM/DMS product, MPX , open source last year, has adopted a new name, Orange Leap. Orange Leap is possibly going for what is now often called the “ Open Core &# business model, although it’s not entirely clear. There is no community that is at all visible.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

These scenarios happen all the time and can be incredibly frustrating for IT managers, especially when your current tech stack already has a similar tool—which the colleague has forgotten about or never completed training on—or the suggested software cannot integrate properly with your other systems. That is when innovation creep sets in.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

Maybe you love new tech, or maybe you feel exhausted by it sometimes. Just as your organization’s story — its mission, community, history, constituents, partners, everything that makes it unique — should guide your organization’s engagement strategies , your underlying tech foundations should be guided by a similar roadmap, as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# Let’s get together!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Movable Type goes Open Source December 13, 2007 This is old news, sort of. They are really putting their money where their mouth is, in terms of working toward more openness.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In just a few weeks, we’ll be unveiling NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board, a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. With a dedicated job board, your postings will be in a prominent place on the Web and the NTEN website. We can’t wait to unveil the new job site later this month! When can I post?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2008

However, Songbird has emerged, like many open source projects do, as a mature, stable, and, in Songbird’s case, a truly awesome application, because of the incredible extensibility of the Mozilla framework (and the talent of the Songbird developer community.). It’s a cross-platform music player based upon the Mozilla framework.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in San Jose). What is Mobile Tech 4 Social Change? Is open to anyone with passion and interest in the topic. Each event includes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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