Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

" There is no question that technology in general has created sea changes in the ways in which organizations get and use information, reach donors and constituents, create campaigns, etc. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Craig Foster, a former Australia National Football Team captain who played 29 times for Australia, led an international campaign to free a young Bahraini footballer and refugee, Hakeem al-Araibi, from a Thai prison. See you at Unite! About the Author.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, one of the companys most popular open-source projects , allows users to package and serve any model regardless of the AI framework it was trained on. Reducing Response Times With Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter) Open-source research advancements are helping to democratize AI inference.

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DataRobot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

“We have built hundreds of demand forecasting models at the store-level, and now my data scientists are spending valuable time babysitting these models instead of working on new projects,” shared the Director of Analytics of a global retailer. Today, his team is using open-source packages without a standardized AI platform.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Slack helps us achieve this,” says Will Calvert, director of technology and enablement at RMIT Online. with their 35,000 grassroots volunteers as they worked on various campaign tactics targeted at undecided voters in key states. Our students have high expectations of the RMIT Online experience. In the 2020 U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Integrate third-party services for payments, event registration, email campaigns and more. Salesforce integration can include actions like creating opportunities or assigning campaign members. They also wanted to publish unique giving-campaign donation forms and associate the payment to the corresponding campaign in Salesforce.

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

Erica is the director of external relations, a position she has held since joining the library in 2017. She came to the library right before a significant capital campaign to transform the library into “an open source, people’s university” and hasn’t looked back since.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Open Source – API. The social aspects of the site rest in use of Facebook and Twitter social plugins/widgets for sharing as well as liking the campaign. While reviewing websites, we specifically looked at the different types of social media organizations were integrating into their websites.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The GAHC had been using Excel to manage campaigns but didn’t have a way to view each donor’s giving history and other crucial donor information. Kelly Lao, Executive Director at the German American Heritage Center, said the Bloomerang system allowed the GAHC to turn more lapsed or new donors into sustained givers. transaction fee.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. Recruiting: Betsy Burgess joins as our new Director of Marketing Now, I'm delighted to report the recent arrival of our new Director of Marketing, Betsy Burgess. We've just launched Miradi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. Inspired by MoveOn email campaigns, CitizenSpeak provides the same e-advocacy capability at the community level.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 2, 2023

In this case, he focused his attention on quick, tangible wins like partnering with marketing to improve campaign performance. After being pressed by the CFO, “if they REALLY need this,” they either abandon the initiative or turn to stitching together a bevy of piecemeal open source solutions like Frankenstein’s monster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Heather Gardner-Madras is a designer and strategist for progressive nonprofit campaigns and also writes for the Idealware blog. Holly Ross. Laura Lee Dooley.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. Box has chosen Bryan Breckenridge, formerly the head of LinkedIn for Good , as Box.org’s executive director. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source."

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Care2

APRIL 12, 2009

Interested in learning about free and open source software that can support your work including tools for web publishing, fundraising, blogging, and campaigning? Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications. RSVP: Click here. and Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

In this new world of Twitter and Facebook, of citizen journalism and astonishing grassroots campaigns like Twestival , it’s easy to feel befuddled by the dizzying pace of change. Katrin Verclas, founder and editor-in-chief of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They do this work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. org co-founder Jon Warnow, who is their web director, which is as close as anyone gets to being an IT person at the organization. org Campaigns.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

This open-source packaged solution sits on top of Sales Cloud. NPSP, together with Sales Cloud, enables organizations with prebuilt solutions based on typical nonprofit use cases. Pardot has traditionally been considered a B2B solution due to its ability to increase lead generation and provide lead scoring.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

First up, a round of applause for the winner of the sixth annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes a campaign or initiative in the nonprofit sector that has made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising, or both. Congratulations to this year''s winner: Imagine No Malaria’s 2014 World Malaria Day campaign.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. Kickstarter may be a good place to fund small experiments or to jump start campaigns. game and the Neversink Valley Museum's capital campaign launch materials. Let's say you want to make a documentary about the World Cup. Or sail around the world. How would you fund it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Change Websites is an excellent directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites devoted to social change. You can sort by category and location and it campaign as a basic description. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. " You read an excerpt here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

At this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), Maite Arce, executive director of HAF, and Osvaldo Gomez, technology director at Upleaf , shared how they combined technology with grassroots outreach to help Spanish-speaking immigrants across the country. It used the open source platform Drupal.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The advent of open source technology and years of use by corporations have both made these technologies inexpensive and proven they are more agile and reliable than the complex systems most vendors currently offer the nonprofit market. He is on the Board of Directors of Cambridge, Mass.-based

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They do this work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. org co-founder Jon Warnow, who is their web director, which is as close as anyone gets to being an IT person at the organization. org Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. for NGOs there.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

4 years after launching their first #GivingShoesDay campaign, Dress for Success Worldwide is on a mission to go bigger than ever this Giving Tuesday. They’ve created a campaign that focuses on connecting with women on a personal level. So how are they doing it? For Dress for Success, #GivingShoesDay isn’t just a day of giving.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Debra Cleaver, the founder and executive director of Long Distance Voter, wanted to find a way to campaign to advocate for the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015. VotingRightsAct.us.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

But sometimes, no matter how long and hard we keep our fingers crossed, our strategy fails—our gut told us wrong and our campaign flops. Linda Douglas, Senior Director of Marketing and Annual Giving at UM’s Office of University Development, shared with me some insight into what it took: University-Wide Participation. Linda Douglas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Pavel Zoneff, director of strategic communications at the Tor Project, told TechCrunch that the site “is no longer available seemingly with no plans to renew.” based advertising campaigns, allows brands to analyze the content adjacent to — primarily tweets above and below the ad — all types of ads, including promoted tweets.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

50 Cooperative banks and credit unions are a possible source of business capital, as well. Crowdfunding campaigns have raised over $1 million to launch platform cooperatives, as happened with The Drivers Cooperative in New York. And unions have the capacity to invest both capital and technical support behind platform cooperatives.

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