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SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and opensource software addressing critical social problems.
Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, opensource products, and homegrown solutions. Idealware’s Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems reviewed 30 systems, the majority of which don’t come from Convio or Blackbaud. Here my perspective.
Shareable: The OpenSource Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) 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). And it's fun!
CiviCRM This is a free open-source solution for associations that helps with contact management, outreach, and event management. Zenbership Zenbership is another free open-source solution with a specific focus on eCommerce and subscription management. To learn more, reach out to us for a demo.
One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. This guide on the Total Cost of Technology from the ICT Hub may also be useful. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge !
A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.
If your nonprofit engages in advocacy, it’s worth experimenting with. It’s also worth noting that they have an excellent mobile website which enables nonprofits to make their online advocacy campaigns mobile. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.
These providers allow for more dynamic segmenting, messaging, and tools for advocacy. Offers guided surveying for organizations. Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection.
Salsa Labs’ nonprofit software is all encompassing as they offer donor management, digital marketing, online fundraising, online advocacy, and peer-to-peer solutions! The post Purchasing Nonprofit Software: A Fundraiser’s Guide appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Let’s lift some of the weight off your back and dive in! Salsa Labs.
A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online. T urboVote enables U.S.
A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.
Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an opensource CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. Check out William Grassie's article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy out how the Metanexus Institute shaved $176,000 of their annual budget by shifting to cloud based infrastructure.
Azavea announced the release of the Philadelphia " Online Citizen's Guide " in partnership with the Committee of Seventy. See3 lays out 7 dos for any advocacy campaign based on the success of the recent Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) campaign for animal abuse legislation. Thanks to all those who documented and shared!
Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. They provide in-depth reports comparing opensource content management systems such as Drupal, Joomla, and, WordPress, as well as Constituent Relationship Management systems.
A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.
As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. The Mifos X Platform is free opensource cloud software for running a microfinance organization that provides small loans, savings accounts, and micro insurance to very poor people.
Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag." Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and opensource software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of opensource implementations of distributed social networking concepts.
Mozilla’s opensource Firefox emerged as a major player in the web browsing space, taking on the (then) mighty Internet Explorer and hitting the giddy heights of a circa-30% market share around 2010. “Mozilla Ventures is being funded from Mozilla’s long-term savings,” Surman said.
The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program. It is opensource software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We've just launched Miradi.
The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a great advocacy charity in that field. I like Search Engine Watch’s Twitter Analytics: A Beginner's Guide. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy OpenSource Technologies (TechCrunch). Image: IBM.
When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. ActiveCollab an opensource project management tool. The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0
One we like that is oriented toward opensource and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). This advocacy project aims "to protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted.
Social Change Websites is an excellent directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites devoted to social change. Be sure to check out Beginner's Guide to Facebook and How to promote your Cause on Facebook articles. This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read.
How-to guides, FAQs, resource packets, and listicles are all useful formats for informational blog resources. Feeding America took a unique approach to the event recap blog post by interviewing their director of advocacy and neighbor engagement about her experience at the event.
A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.
Harness moves more deeply into opensource dev tools : With more and more startups building with an opensource stance, it’s not a huge shock that Harness – which is working to build “a more complete modern tooling platform for developers,” Ron Miller reports – bought ChaosNative, which builds opensource developer tools.
Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. That’s where the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) comes in.
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