ifPeople Releases Schedule for Nonprofit Website Bootcamp

Last week, we released the official schedule for our Nonprofit Website Boot Camp. Held in August at our headquarters in Atlanta, this workshop is designed to give organizations a highly functional, interactive website in just 8 weeks! Websites will feature donation processing, well-crafted messaging, content management, and more. This workshop is perfect for any nonprofit [...]

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Grants for Green Action: Apply by May 22, 2009

The nonprofit action heroes at DemocracyInAction.org are giving away a year’s worth of their supporter management and e-advocacy product to 5 environmental organizations as part of their Green Grant program! Apply by May 22, 2009 to enter.
As a Green Grant recipient, you’ll get full access to the Salsa platform and community to help [...]

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New Nonprofit Tech Reports: Website, Social Media, Donor Software and more

The NTEN Nonprofit Tech Conference, held in San Francisco, Apr 26-28, was fertile ground for launching new reports for the sector. Here’s an overview of reports you should be aware of:

Nonprofit use of social media: The Nonprofit Social Network Survey report compiles the experiences of ~!,000 organizations in social media. The report shows that [...]

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Nonprofit Technology Conference: Cool Stuff

In case you haven’t heard, the NTC, put on by the amazing folks at the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) was a raging success. With over 30% growth in attendence over last year, the organizers had to reorganize the space a couple times to be able to accommodate as many as possible. So what made it [...]

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Take the Nonprofit Social Network Survey

In lead up to the NTEN NTC conference, you can help understand the nonprofit sector’s use of social media by taking a survey jointly launched by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort. The results will be launched at the NTEN NTC conference in late April (in San Francisco).
Click here for the survey.
Going to NTEN NTC? Check [...]

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New report out comparing open source content management systems

The report aims to help nonprofits make decisions on open source CMSs, but would be useful to anyone evaluating a content management system. Idealware, who provides objective information on software for nonprofits, has released a new version of its report comparing Plone, Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. This report is more detailed than ever and encompasses [...]

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Got GIS? Nonprofits get major discounts on ESRI product

Just found out that, via TechSoup Stock (store for nonprofit offers of discounted technology goodies), nonprofits can get an ESRI ArcView GIS product (one license) for $175 — about 90% off retail! That’s a great deal if you have the need for some heavy-lifting GIS tools (note: not for mere tinkering, this is a complex [...]

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