Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. Keep all of this important personal information organized and in a secure database. Create your engagement plan informed by the data you collected.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

that makes Bookshare possible) and open licensing terms, so that people who the market will fail to address get the benefits of our incredibly rich and expanding knowledge base. James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

When you add Batch gift entry to your existing Apsona license, you get a Batches tab on the Apsona tool bar: First, you add a new batch record. If a contact is not matched in the database, you can create a new contact. This defines the parameters for the batch (total amount and items), custom fields, field defaults, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0, and pretty good, and improving fast.) that will be published in Linux Identity Magazine. I hope to start doing OpenOffice.org training soon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Thanks to Darren DeRose, the IT Administrator for Children's Network of Solano County in Fairfield, California, having a shared database is no longer such a problem.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

We’ve been using Salesforce as our primary everything database since mid 2006. Our database is set up based on the old nonprofit best practice of putting individual constituents/donors in a bucket “Individual&# account. Once upgraded, all existing licenses can use the new features. Bugs will be fixed.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Pricing and level of effort: No licensing costs; included with Salesforce . Pricing and level of effort: Low annual licensing costs ranging from $50 to $300 depending on the package. Pricing and level of effort: Higher annual per-user licensing costs ranging from $1K to $8K depending on the package.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. First and foremost, Salesforce is not a donor database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Many of you have probably relied on multiple Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and maybe a Microsoft Access database at some point in your professional life. My hope is that I can provide insight and experience that will be helpful for other nonprofits who currently use, or are thinking of implementing, Salesforce as their primary database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Instead of being installed on computers that are owned and operated by the organization, and located in their offices, software “in the cloud” is owned by another company, located on their computer network, and licensed to the customer organization for remote Internet access and usage. Make sense?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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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.) For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine.

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

You may have heard of Salesforce.com before – it’s one of the most robust and customizable database softwares in the industry. Salesforce.com is a San Francisco company that makes an online database available to nonprofits. What is Salesforce.com?

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San Francisco License Database Nonprofit 64

Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Managing your nonprofit's database is key so you'll need a good CRM to help you manage all your donor relationships. Salesforce for Nonprofits is often looked to as a good choice because of their grant program that includes 10 free licenses. Others have covered that which you can check out here. Nonprofit CRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign. The old fashioned form of integration.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

You can find discounted licenses for InDesign on sites like TechSoup. Consider running your list against the Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) and National Change of Address (NCOA) databases. CASS and NCOA checks may already be included in your donor database or as an extra service. Or a donor who prefers J.C.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I stopped at the license agreement. I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) It booted fine.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). . This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

Prior to his PhD, he worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in community health, adolescent residential treatment, and a faith-based organization. (I Specifically, because their information is stored in one central database, ABCD can access the data in a variety of ways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If you haven't heard of IssueLab, it is the Foundation Center's free database of more than 12,000 whitepapers, case studies, and evaluations. Near the end of the webinar, in the context of sharing and having access to social sector research, Lisa took some time to discuss Creative Commons licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Today we have proudly announced that we are releasing our entire database of volunteer opportunities to outside developers under a Creative Commons license to expand the non-commercial use of our free service. With our decision to open our database of opportunities , we are stepping proudly into a new era of change for VolunteerMatch.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

With the new release (and as with the 2009 version) both single - and multi-user versions (with 3 licenses) are available. Additionally, an organization with a QuickBooks product that has three-user licenses can acquire a single-user license of the same QuickBooks product and convert those into a four-user product.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

You may have heard of Salesforce.com before – it’s one of the most robust and customizable database softwares in the industry. Salesforce.com is a San Francisco company that makes an online database available to nonprofits. What is Salesforce.com?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 1, 2010

As a Mac user, I've narrowed it down to 3 main contenders: OmniFocus (which I already have a license key buried somewhere), Things and The Hit List. Both have a library/database file that was easy enough to place in DropBox so I can get the same view of tasks on both my iMac and MacBook. But which one?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Applying for any necessary licensing or permits. Each state has different licensing rules depending on the type of nonprofit you’re starting. Nonprofits typically invest in resources such as: A CRM database. They’ll provide oversight and approval for all initiatives you undertake. Hire a motivated team.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Your online fundraising tool should integrate with your nonprofit’s donor database or CRM functionality. Top features: Leverage the largest database of companies with matching gift programs so your team can pinpoint every match-eligible donor. Donor CRM integration. Recurring giving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

O ur Intelligence for Good® approach combines licensed and proprietary data assets, world-class industry data science expertise, advanced machine-learning techniques, and robust analytic methodologies – all optimized to drive your mission impact. . It’s no longer sufficient to hold data – a best-in-class database is just table stakes.

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