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- GiftWorks 2008 Standard (exe)
- At Mission Research, we recognize the critical work nonprofits perform in our society and take seriously our quest to provide organizations with an outstanding tool to raise the ever-needed funds to meet their mission. That's why we created GiftWorks. GiftWorks is powerful and intuitive; comprehensive and easy-to-use. And yet, it's...
- Tags: nonprofit, mission research, giftworks 2008, productivity
- Software downloads 2008-03-21
- Photos: Solar festival as green as it gets
- Alternative energy and culture were on display last weekend at an off-the-grid learning center in Northern California.Madison Avenue advertisers and Silicon Valley venture capitalists may be pushing all things green into the mainstream these days, yet the countercultural roots of the sustainable-living movement are alive and thriving. More than 10,000...
- Tags: photograph, solfest, solar living institute, dome, alternative energy, photovoltaics, hydrogen, dump, santa cruz, wall, greenhouse, tent, automated teller machine, homeowner, northern california, nonprofit, technique, festival, pump, showcase, pyramid, california, sharp corp.
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
- Images: Google Earth with a cause
- Here are examples of how nonprofits are using the 3D mapping tool to raise awareness of issues like deforestation and genocide.
- Tags: nonprofit, google earth, 3d, google inc., tool
- Image galleries 2007-06-07
- The Business of Changing The World: Corporate Philanthropy
- Last night I attended a dinner to celebrate the release of The Business of Changing The World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy, a book by salesforce.coms Marc Benioff written with Carlye Adler that covers corporate philanthropy, with essays by Michael Dell, Craig Barrett Intel, Mike Eskew UPS, Jean-Pierre...
- Tags: venture capital, marc benioff, nonprofit
- Blog posts 2006-10-05
- Photos: Innovation on display at SRI
- SRI is a nonprofit that's been instrumental to the development of everything from robotic surgery to the computer mouse.
- Tags: mice, sri, computer mouse, nonprofit, surgery, display, mouse, computer
- Image galleries 2006-07-20
- Photos: Innovation on display at SRI
- SRI is a nonprofit that's been instrumental to the development of everything from robotic surgery to the computer mouse.
- Tags: mice, sri, computer mouse, nonprofit, surgery, display, mouse, computer
- Image galleries 2006-04-03
- Photos: Innovation on display at SRI
- SRI is a nonprofit that's been instrumental to the development of everything from robotic surgery to the computer mouse.
- Tags: mice, sri, computer mouse, nonprofit, surgery, display, mouse, computer
- Image galleries 2006-04-03
- Innovation Trends in Nonprofit Financial Services to the Underbanked
- The role of nonprofits in developing financial products and services for unbanked consumers and low-income workers has changed dramatically. Once supporting players, they've now assumed a leadership role in articulating the needs of their constituents. The proposals cited in this paper hold important implications for the industry as a whole...
- Tags: innovation, financial, financial service, nonprofit, leadership, financial accounting, management, finance
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Fund Accounting Vs. Commercial Accounting for Nonprofits
- Many nonprofits use commercial accounting products initially, but once most organizations have multiple funding sources, they find that off-the-shelf accounting software will not meet their special tracking and reporting requirements. The process can grow impractical and difficult to maintain. At worst, it can open the door to costly errors and...
- Tags: accounting, nonprofit, operational accounting, financial services, finance
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Stargazer Portal Empowers Groups to Make the World a Better Place
- The Stargazer Foundation seeks to empower first-responders, governments, school and nonprofits through "Stargazer.org," a portal of online services and tools that help them do their jobs more effectively. The foundation needed a proven solution provider who could provide secure, highly available, flexible and robust infrastructure. Stargazer.org uses an IBM solution...
- Tags: nonprofit, ibm corp., stargazer portal, stargazer foundation, stargazer.org, portals, government, web technology, productivity, vertical industries, linux, utility computing, middleware, servers, enterprise software, internet, software, operating systems, hardware
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- The perils of information overload
- Employees from technology companies including Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and Google have banded together to combat information overload, which they call "the world's greatest challenge to productivity." As the new nonprofit Information Overload Research Group gets off the ground, CNET News intern Holly Jackson hit the streets of San Francisco...
- Tags: news, holly jackson, google, ibm, dell, intel, cell phones, internet, email, iphone, apple, information, overload, but no tags matched
- Videos 2008-07-18
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XOMS themselves have not accomplished this yet...with satisfactory results, so I doubt you will have any success. Why don't you try Xubuntu or Puppy Linux on a USB drive? Or sell it on eBay? http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/xubuntu-feisty-now-from-usb-drive/http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/03/25/puppy-linux-on-usb/TripleIIThen drop the Linux version"Let the...
- Tags: microsoft windows, operating systems, microsoft windows xp, xp is, one laptop per child project, linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Photos: Where the building is the network
- The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...
- Tags: network, echelon, photograph, building, it', echelon', that', networking, cnet news.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-14
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...
- Tags: one laptop per child project, ivan krstiÄ, nicholas, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Sugar on Windows looking inevitable
- Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of Kane and Nicholas Negroponte, will definitely be seeking to deploy Windows on XOs and future products from...
- Tags: one laptop per child project, nicholas negroponte, bender, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Instrumenting social responsibility
- As I'm sitting in an Orlando hotel idly flicking through RSS, I come across this guest post by Stacey Monk on Go Big Always. To cut a long story short: After all, I'm the perhaps crazy person who, after a trip to Africa last year, left a really successful...
- Tags: sap ag, stacey monk, epicchange, web 2.0, corporate social responsibility, internet, leadership, management, dennis howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- NonProfit Improves Efficiency, Enhances Security With New Operating System and Productivity Suite
- Even when organizations take pride in their traditional values, accomplishing their goals sometimes requires breaking tradition. The Austrian Union of Catholic Fraternities upgraded the software they traditionally had used in order to serve their members better. The Windows Vista Business operating system, along with the 2007 Microsoft Office system and...
- Tags: operating system, microsoft corp., productivity suite, microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, tools & techniques, security, software, management
- Case studies 2008-04-28
- Georgia State sued over electronic "course packs"
- The New York Times is reporting that three publishers are suing Georgia State University in what appears to be the first suit of its kind. The publishers allege that electronic compilations of scanned materials posted on the school website for distribution to students violates "fair use" and requires licensing....
- Tags: student, material, internet, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Nonprofit Slashes Development Cost, Adds Web Scalability, Client-Server Responsiveness
- Preparing to provide more services to more people was essential to the future of nonprofit Big Thought - but its client-server system stood in the way. So it turned to a solution built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Big Thought expects to combine Web-based scalability with client-server responsiveness; to support...
- Tags: web, client-server, big thought, servers, hardware
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Swedish Medical Leverages Content Management Solution to Facilitate Patient-Centric Care
- Swedish Medical Center is the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in the Greater Seattle area, with three hospital locations in Seattle, a freestanding emergency room and specialty center in Issaquah East King County, and a network of 12 primary care clinics. Swedish Medical Center wanted to ensure that patient information is...
- Tags: patient, content management, swedish medical center
- Case studies 2008-04-01
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