Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

Offering the option to donate in-kind resources opens up the opportunity for the entire community to participate in your organization’s mission, regardless of how much money they have. This poses a real challenge for nonprofit organizations that have a small operating budget with which to put on engaging and profitable fundraisers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The Luciano Barreto Júnior Institute in Aracaju, Brazil provides educational opportunities to low-income kids in the agricultural Brazilian state of Sergipe, the home of Brazil’s far-famed Forro music. If you’d like some attention for your nonprofit's work, please meet Bea Dominguez.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The Luciano Barreto Júnior Institute in Aracaju, Brazil provides educational opportunities to low-income kids in the agricultural Brazilian state of Sergipe, the home of Brazil’s far-famed Forro music. If you’d like some attention for your nonprofit's work, please meet Bea Dominguez.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

If you're new to the NPO world, consult your state and local laws about social host liability. There is nothing wrong with providing adult beverages for guests, and a cash/open bar may prove profitable. However, never presume; always double check, and confirm with your insurance provider. Provide Varied Menus and Activities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

I think part of the answer has to be to provide the resources for people to become better providers – whether it be to help budding accidental techies get off the ground to become great IT staff or independent consultants, or helping individual and small consulting firms learn what makes really good nonprofit support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The authors say that having sufficient capital and resources to build authentic, deep relationships is fundamental to achieving progress on many issues. Our own experiences—in philanthropy, consulting, and academia—lead us to applaud the network “crescendo” and join the chorus.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Excellent resource. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 at 11:01 am Congratulations! You deserve to be proud of this work! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. 41st Annual FAE Nonprofit Conference. Finance / @nysscpa.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I first came across their thinking and work on building social networks for social change via the resources section on the Barr Foundation web site back in 2006. Madeleine is co-founder and principal of Arbor Consulting Partners , a research and consulting group led by senior social scientists.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read. They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well. I’ve been re-reading a book that I read early in the decision-making process about becoming a consultant way back in 1996. It’s called The Consultant’s Calling , and it’s really a book about consulting as a calling, a vocation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. 2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 Sure, why not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense. But it needs addressing. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) One vendor said that very few nonprofits have the resources to take advantage of APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Plugged it in, and it just worked. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. But that’s not the point of this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. at 5:14 pm That’s a pretty sad story, Michelle, and interesting that it was coming from a nonprofit that based on resources shouldn’t have been thinking that way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Also, to be fair, SourceForge supplies a lot more “raw resources&# to its projects — web space, databases, login servers, compile farms, and so on. It’s not intended to scale up to the proportions one would need for a major project like Python or Amanda. Depending on the project, those can be really useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

More adoption means more developers involved, more users helping, more resources available. It’s not only that they are going to be contributing to the project – but remember the old adage “no one ever got fired for buying IBM&# ? IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. Continued to consult with the #GivingTuesday.org staff. If you were unable to join us last month, we hope that you’ll join us next year at bbcon 2020 in Seattle. How does it work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

The first is Saturday, August 18th at UC Berkeley , and the second is on Saturday, September 15th at the Brookyn Academy of Music. Free-Range Drama Farm recommends the Foundation's Nonprofit Resources page, which has links to resources like Idealists' Tools for Organizations and iReuse for Nonprofits. 50 for the day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

It leveled the playing field, so that an organization without many resources could do what at that time, required a lot of resources. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. AICPA Not-for-Profit Industry Conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

It will use up server resources at some server farm which uses electricity (which means, probably burning dirty coal, or natural gas). But, for the most part, I really don’t want to know what they are doing right now. I need less, and better data, not more. And there is more: it might keep me at my computer longer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL. The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL. The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I like the wide variety of resources he brings to bear – he’s introduced me to a lot of great writers and thinkers in varied areas. What I like: I like reading Ed’s perspectives on organizations, how they work, and the kinds of strategies and approaches that are around to work within organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem talks about how the company balances the triple bottom line of profits, people and planet. Reem: Sustainability can range, you know, when people talk about triple bottom line, you're talking about profits, people and planet. So in terms of profitability, the company has been very successful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

But how do you attract your key audiences to your small stage within an enormous music festival? Over the past year or so, Facebook has really poured its resources into Pages in hopes that brands will buy advertising to drive traffic to their Pages. Get the Band Together. First you need to create your Page. Learn About Your Fans.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Britt Bravo: If someone wanted to start an urban garden program, what are some of the resources they can turn to and what are some of the small steps that they can take? So you could actually learn, it's one of the few non-profits that trains people in how to teach others about gardening and composting. Thanks for listening.

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