Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. The project is controversial in that it will grow Facebook’s user base. There are remedies. The nonprofit refurbisher.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Check out news alert services. AlmaConnect or Insightful can help your department stay on top of prospects by finding mentions of them in the news or even finding job updates on LinkedIn. Document as you go. Some are a must, like the quarterly National Change of Address, or NCOA updates (U.S. Clean up portfolios.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

Do your grant applications tell stories that catch the attention of funders and illustrate the real impact their support will have on your community? Foundations and corporate philanthropy programs receive floods of applications for new grant opportunities. Stories make things real.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

Qriously is a new application that puts questions you ask out to the world (or country, region, etc.) I’m really excited to share her guest post below where she documents some of the questions they asked and how they interpret the feedback to inform their work and programs. Photos or random news. Social Media.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 23, 2024

Navigating a new software solution can be overwhelming. Allow a team of experienced project managers to assist you in selecting, configuring, and customizing the best product to fit your needs. How-To Documentation : Use this library of resources to read articles, watch videos, and get the latest news about your Blackbaud tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made to the Social Actions API. The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

I had an exceptionally knowledgeable mentor who ran an office engaged in multiple types of fundraising activities: endowment (major gifts), special project fundraising (grant writing), annual fund (with a corporate slant), membership, database administration, special events, and volunteer management. My mind was a sponge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings. We’re so excited to embark upon this new project!

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

As I delighted in this news, a board member to my left said, “Is this allowed?” . Keep in mind that 990s are considered to be public documents. It also fills in the gaps of what can’t be understood from public documents like annual reports or 990s. Nonprofit organizations are allowed to have profits. The Treasurer.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). There are TONS of climate activisits and organizations on Twitter - spreading news, policy alerts, new developments, and ideas. It’s not going to work.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

CiviCRM even has some basic HR management tools to help nonprofits keep track of their volunteers, new jobs, and related documents. Project Management. OpenProject is a web-based project management system designed to help dispersed teams collaborate on projects of varying scope. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The good news is that there are also real benefits for nonprofits. Cloud-based applications are more secure from cyberthreats than a typical nonprofit server environment is. Cloud applications are updated frequently, and teams of skilled cybersecurity engineers use sophisticated software to watch over datacenters.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2019

The good news is that, no matter where you are, there are a lot of potential grants. If your organization has fundamentally different values from those of the grantor, writing a compelling application could be challenging. The next step is to ensure that the available funding matches your project needs. In the U.S.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? See if they have good documentation. Check out the website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I’ll be the project manager on their big new client database project, and help them think about how far to dip their toes into Web 2.0. I can evaluate previous projects based on what I see is the underlying complexity, and figure out how much experience a vendor has had with a particular set of problems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The developers of each project have completely different sets of assumptions about what the right way to do things is, and completely different philosophies and ethos when it comes to building interfaces and functionality. . - at 8:54 pm Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

A collaborative research project by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their supporters and donors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! to the data in the Kintera platform. The APIs will be without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

To achieve this new direction, we have outsourced most of the day-to-day network administration so I can focus on other projects that impact our staff and grantees. I was also pleased that the subsequent email transactions included all of the necessary documentation that our accounting team needed to properly account for the donation.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

What it does: JotForm is an online application that allows you to create custom online forms. Collaborate on grant applications or annual reports using Google Docs. What it does: Asana is project management software that allows you to manage your team’s work, projects, and tasks online and in one place. The bad news?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 23, 2023

Resource optimization: Maximized efficiency (like not having to go to the bank to deposit checks) means you can spend more resources working towards impactful projects and campaigns. Access API documentation: Familiarize yourself with the payment processor’s application programming interface (API) documentation.

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Process Guide Paypal Nonprofit 52

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —the largest private foundation in the world—launched standard, streamlined procedures for its grant processing that included new tools to focus documentation and analysis on the key topics supported by its philanthropy. Why the Environment Changed: Federal Grant News. “It

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g., Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Blog Days, Blog Actions, and GTD for Blogs Perhaps inspired by Blog Day and Blog Carnivals , lately, I've been seeing coordinated "blog action" projects crop up in and around the nptech space. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. My favorite phrase is "The code isn???t

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Candid

APRIL 15, 2024

Whether for expanding programs, launching new initiatives, or sustaining current projects, securing institutional funding is crucial to your organization’s ability to deliver on your mission. This includes grants data, peer organizations’ donors, news articles, and information about funder organizations’ officers.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

How it works for nonprofits: This would be a great site to use when suggesting a platform for third-party events, or even for small crowdfunding projects for your organization. You won’t want to use it for everything, but this works especially well for small projects. Or, maybe you bookmarked it and still can’t sort through your tabs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." Take it a step further and share their news story links on your blog. Share your challenges and successes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. Anna Jaeger. And it works for nonprofits too! Virtual Teams and Online Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. To good news, you don't need to write a blog to find people and to participate in the conversation. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! news or web feeds ???? The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ????

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Check out the Brooklyn Museum’s API documentation for some pretty advanced tech sharing. The reasons are sourced from blog, news, or case study posts from a network of American Red Cross sites. The graphic below illustrates the intensity of resources required for each category.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. So I guess I should be happy that there were so many for-profit vendors at the table, and that this means that it will be easier for nonprofits to do the kinds of integration between applications that was nigh impossible a couple of years ago.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Laura was anonymous with her project for a year until she held a reveal party and fundraiser in July of 2010. Since then, her project has been featured on CNN, Glamour.com, Fox News, and The Huffington Post. Our conversation began with Laura explaining how the Secret Agent L project works. It's very fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

But it’s buggy, and it feels like exposing people who aren’t already totally sold on open source to open source using a project that’s not ready for primetime is, well, one step forward and two steps back? at 4:25 pm @ Nancy, Wow, I’m really concerned with your news. Perhaps not, I’m not clear.

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