Open Source Nonprofit Software

For non profits that have sister groups, affiliates, and chapters, the ability to organize their constituent information in one database helps them to better optimize their fundraising efforts.
MPower has recently introduced a multi-organization solution for this type of non profit organization. Thanks to this new technology, multi-organization non profits will have access to their constituent data [...]

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One of the largest U.S. chapters of the biggest multicutural women’s organizations, the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas, has recently decided to use MPower open source CRM software to replace their previous propriety solution. While it has utilized proproetary software for many years, the organization has opted to explore the benefits of using MPower’s flexible and effective CRM [...]

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Open source software continues to grow in popularity, so it is no surprise that higher education institutions have begun to use open source software in a variety of contexts to ensure that graduates have an easy transition into the “real world.” This kind of recognition from the higher education institutions proves that open source software [...]

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A new study released by O’Reilly Research shows that there are multiple reasons for the steady rise of open source software. The top six reasons include quality, cost, security, agility, scale, decreased vendor lock-in, and innovation.
Open source software has the ability to decrease vendor lock-in, allowing open source software users to avoid the dramatics of [...]

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An alpha verson of Alitheia Core, a tool used to check the quality of open source software, has recently been released by the Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS). Several companies, academic institutions, and open source projects have been working on the development of the checker throughout areas of Europe.
A press release recently [...]

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