This is the third part of our series on free and open-source software and the resources to help your organization make the most of what FOSS has to offer. When you need to know the meaning of a word, you flip open a dictionary. It’s a trusted authority. It gives the information you need to use an essential tool (language) more ...

When your spokesperson is interviewed on the TV evening news, that's air time worth far more than most nonprofits could hope to afford as an advertising purchase. And when your organization is quoted in the press, that lends an air of credibility that you just can't buy at any price. Advertising is telling your own story. Publicity is when ...

April 27 - May 3, 2008 is National Volunteer Week in both Canada and the United States. The heightened awareness of volunteerism that goes along with such a campaign offers a golden opportunity to celebrate your existing volunteers — and to recruit new volunteers to your organization. Here are a few ideas of how your nonprofit might use the ...

Zoho, best known for its suite of free productivity and collaboration online tools, a direct competitor to Google Apps, has just launched Zoho People, a free online Human Resources Management Application. It's designed for small and medium-sized businesses, but Zoho People could be just as useful for a nonprofit that needs an efficient way to ...

An aging population means that most nonprofit groups are working with an ever-shrinking pool of donors and volunteers. Are we making the most of those people who are available to volunteer, and willing to donate their time, energy, and resources to a good cause? Noël-Marie Taylor would say, perhaps not! An active volunteer before she had ...

How many non-profits do you know that are struggling to find a qualified volunteer to create a website or to troubleshoot computer or network problems? My guess would be more than a dozen! From my experience, I can say all the non-profits I worked for over the years had technology problems. And I can guarantee that there are hundreds of ...

  A couple of weeks ago, I attended a Flickr session at the Non-Profit Technology Conference. A common question asked was “How can we use Flickr to reach new audiences?”   A lot of nonprofits have started using Flickr to increase their visibility online. Flickr has become a popular social media tool because it allows ...