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Cool Things Nonprofits Do
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10.02.09Mobile phones to the rescue in Indonesia, Philippines and SamoaFrom the UN Dispatch: Over the weekend a deadly tropical storm slammed into the Philippines, causing severe flooding in urban areas and affecting tens of thousands. Tuesday, a powerful underwater earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves 15 to 20 feet high that crashed into the Samoa islands, destroying homes and taking lives. Then yesterday and today two successive and devastating earthquakes struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, leaving thousands buried in rubble and in desperate need of aid. Groups funded by the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership are deployed in all three Pacific Ocean emergencies to provide vital communications services ...
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06.20.09Towards a New Kind of Nonprofit Website, Part II've been doing some research lately on building websites for a political advocacy group, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP). I haven't been posting lately because I went down a VERY, VERY deep Drupal, information architecture and SEO rabbit hole for the last few months. I would have written this post sooner but I really wanted to confirm a lot of my thoughts first with site traffic measurements. Basically, this is a story of how a very small political advocacy group went from zero to hero in roughly six months. This is going to be a long post so let's ...
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12.18.08Philanthropy and Nonprofit Top 25 List – December 2008I compiled this list using the same methodology I used for my October 2007 list. Unfortunately, I still can't compile a list of nonprofits outside the US. Quantcast and compete.com don't do a good job of checking out international sites so I'm still limited by their inability to go outside US borders. Check out the list after the jump... Continue Reading...
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07.23.08American Cancer Society Adopts Internal Social NetworkingThe American Cancer Society has set up an internal social network for themselves: When two Divisions of the American Cancer Society (ACS) came together to form a new, six state Division that includes the territory of Guam, the Austin-based executive leadership team foresaw opportunity and challenges. The sheer size of the newly created “High Plains Division” - with its more than 600 staffers - brought great reach and potentially the sharing of talent and resources toward the ACS’ ultimate mission: eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, ...
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07.18.08Convio gets a win at Susan G. Komen with AikidoSusan G. Komen for the Cure has adopted Convio's Aikido. Not just one of the affiliates but all of them plus the HQ. The most telling stats in the press release are as follows: Continue Reading...
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07.10.08Kudos to the IRC for their use of GIS in EthopiaI don't always get a chance to commend nonprofits for their great use of technology but I ran into a paper article in ArcNews (it's a newsletter about ArcGIS software -- and no I don't subscribe to it, it's my wife's!) that discussed a remarkable GIS project conducted by the IRC to plan for the location of school sites in Ethiopia. Continue Reading...
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10.03.07Philanthropy and Nonprofit Top 25 List – October 2007So what happened to September's list? Consider September's list to be the prototype for an upcoming list that I will present shortly. I've made some radical changes to this list in order to accommodate my new criteria. This list includes the following criteria: you must be a nonprofit or you must be a non-profit that is intricately involved with nonprofit work such as volunteermatch.org you must be listed in GuideStar. you must be listed in Quantcast The visitor figures are an average from the latest figures from Compete and Quantcast. I basically took the Quantcast list and started from the top searching for .org ...
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03.28.07Good job, Housing Works!Wow! At least one nonprofit gets it! Housing Works is looking for a Ruby on Rails developer and they posted it on 37signals.com too! Here's a brief excerpt: Looking for an individual or company who can help us put the finishing touches on our online Thrift Shop Point of Sale system built in Ruby on Rails. Would be looking for someone with extensive rails experience and experience with point of sale or e-commerce. Ideally this arrangement would also include some sort of second level support agreement where the company or individual could be called upon for bug fixes when the internal team ...
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01.28.07Great new blog you should look at!Take a look at Designing Inward Out. It's a website about the design of a nonprofit web site starting from the wireframes and strategy. I actually wanted to do this for my org's redesign but Chas from Designing Inward Out did it first and far better than I could have. Continue Reading...
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01.22.07Let a thousand buses VROOOOM!!!Peter Gulka has launched the Blackbaud User Society. The Blackbaud User Society is a next step in the evolution of the RE Users Forum. It's a very nicely done Joomla site that really enhances the ecology surrounding Blackbaud. With blackbus.org and blogbaud.com, Raiser's Edge users are now getting a taste of what it's like to have a strong support infrastructure that stands above and beyond the typical technical support that you get from Blackbaud. Blackbaud is very lucky to have a user like Peter around and we're lucky in the nptech community to count him as one of our own. ...
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