Open Source
NTEN Data Ecosystem Report Now Available
Today, we are very pleased to announce the release of the Data Ecosystem Report.
The data ecosystem is the collection of tools we use to manage all the ways we interact with donors, volunteers, activists, and supporters. We wanted to find out how happy organizations are with each of the tools they use, but also what tools make up their ecosystems, and how happy they are with those ecosystems as well.
We hope that, by broadening our view of the software question, we can acheive two things. First, we hope it gives you a resource for helping you make better software selection decisions. Secondly, we hope it helps software vendors better understand the challenges and needs of our sector so that they can address these issues.
So download the report, and share with us what this report means to you and your organization. We love to hear from you.
What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector
Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaneyTransparent. Participatory. Collaborative.
Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? Even non-conspiracy theorists would likely have a hard time summoning up "transparent" as one of the top three adjectives to describe our government. We would all likely agree that it's a shame: our government should be transparent.
Now let's think about our sector.
Transparent. Participatory. Collaborative.
What do you think? Do those words describe the nonprofit sector? How about your nonprofit?
Rem Hoffmann, 
Holly Ross,