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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Benetech's Human Rights Spin-off

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As a matter of fact, the funding for Benetech to start Bookshare and our Martus human rights software project came from a successful spinoff of our first social enterprise, the Arkenstone reading machines, which we sold to a for-profit for roughly $5 million.

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Qgiv Partner Showcase: Achieve

Qgiv

In 2014, a technology solutions-focused group of owners acquired Achieve and reorganized it into the company it is today. Digital agencies usually do social media advertising, social media management, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, and websites. Q: What services do you offer?

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute. maybe you want to join forces for a longer-term project for real impact.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

This Wall Street Journal post discusses how John Arnold a former natural-gas trader at Enron and hedge fund founder is giving away his $4 billion fortune through a new “Moneyball” approach to giving. Open Source philanthropy data big data' Data and Philanthropy. The New Science of Giving.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix.

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Shovel-ready Online Civic Projects #1: Global Development Commons

Forum One

web projects we think the federal government should fund. These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake.

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