Charities Eye New Uses for Cellphone Messages
Text messages to mobile phones are going to become an increasingly important way for nonprofit organizations to reach out to their supporters, several speakers told participants at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. More than 1,100 charity technology officials, consultants, and company…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Photo-Sharing Site Offers Free Accounts
Flickr, the online photo-sharing Web site, is donating 10,000 free accounts to nonprofit organizations. Charities and public libraries in the United States and Canada can request through TechSoup, a nonprofit technology group in San Francisco, up to five free premium, one-year accounts, which allow…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Given Tips for Synchronizing Data
Getting different software programs to talk to one another is one of the most daunting technology problems that nonprofit organizations face. A new report details different ways to synchronize information across programs without having to import and export data manually, an approach that can be…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$500,000 Grant Made for ‘Social’ Stock Market
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a $500,000 grant to study the feasibility of creating a stock market for businesses that seek to achieve a social mission and make a profit. “The current lack of a stock exchange that enables enterprises to list without losing control of their social mission…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Urged to Use Cellphone Messages to Get In Touch With Supporters
Cellphone campaigns get increased attention from charities
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Social Entrepreneurs Seek New Kind of Organization
As the lines between the nonprofit and for-profit worlds blur, charity and business leaders continue to look for new legal structures that are better suited to such blended activities than current designations. The topic was one of many discussions here at a meeting of more than 530 nonprofit…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
MacArthur Foundation Awards $2-Million for ‘Digital Media’
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago, has awarded $2-million in grants to 17 projects that explore new ways to use information technology — including mobile phones, video games, and social networks — in learning. The projects were chosen from a pool of 1,010 applications to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Blackbaud’s Buyouts Solidify Its Spot at the Top
A series of buyouts over the last two years has solidified Blackbaud’s position as the largest ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Software Industry Shake-UpARTICLE: Corporate-Software Provider Makes Foray Into Nonprofit Market provider of fund-raising software to nonprofit organizations. With the three new…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Corporate-Software Provider Makes Foray Into Nonprofit Market
In a move that some experts think could shake up the nonprofit-technology market, a leading ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Software Industry Shake-UpARTICLE: Blackbaud’s Buyouts Solidify Its Spot at the Top provider of corporate software, Salesforce.com, is giving its software to charities free or at a greatly…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Families Moving Forward, an emergency shelter in Minneapolis, devoted a lot of time and energy to ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Corporate-Software Provider Makes Foray Into Nonprofit MarketARTICLE: Blackbaud’s Buyouts Solidify Its Spot at the Top its search for new software to manage its donor records. When…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor