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The Impact of Cloud Management Platforms on Nonprofit Business Models

14 May 2021-Journal of Technology in Human Services (Routledge)-Vol. 39, Iss: 4, pp 405-425
TL;DR: Nonprofits are increasingly using business rhetoric, practices, and systems to create sustainable business models and remain attentive to social needs and stakeholder expectations in a depleted and depleted and... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Nonprofits are increasingly using business rhetoric, practices, and systems to create sustainable business models and remain attentive to social needs and stakeholder expectations in a depleted and...
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe and analyze the data practices of an activist non-profit, the Housing Justice League, focusing on their Tenant Power Hotline, a community outreach tool for tenants facing eviction and seeking organizing support.
Abstract: In this paper, we describe and analyze the data practices of an activist non-profit, the Housing Justice League. We focus on their Tenant Power Hotline, a community outreach tool for tenants facing eviction and seeking organizing support. This research contributes to existing scholarship that examines data practices and the use of information and communication technologies in non-profit and grassroots organizations. To this existing scholarship, we share the structure of a counter-institution: an organization that strives to operate outside the non-profit industrial complex. We then interpret the work of Housing Justice League through the lens of care, identifying homebrewed databases and data fragmentations as negotiations between care and efficiency. We argue that care is enacted through the assemblage of the technical systems, and present tinkering as an alternative approach to developing data practices.?

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TL;DR: A review of the use of data in nonprofit organizations, including the types of data collected and accessed, the motivations for data capture, and the barriers to systematic use, can be found in this article .

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19 Apr 2023
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine opportunities and barriers concerning their technology-mediated work practices and identify two circumstances where CBO workers perform translation: (1) as legitimacy work to build trust with funders and communities, and (2) as (re)mediation in attending to technological barriers and resisting hegemonic systems that treat their communities as "other".
Abstract: Ethnic community-based organizations (CBOs) play an essential role in supporting the wellbeing of immigrants and refugees. CBO workers often act as linguistic and cultural translators between communities, government, and health and social service systems. However, resource constraints, technological barriers, and pressures to be data-driven require workers to perform additional forms of translation to ensure their organizations’ survival. Drawing on 16 interviews with members of 7 Asian American and Pacific Islander CBOs, we examine opportunities and barriers concerning their technology-mediated work practices. We identify two circumstances where CBO workers perform translation: (1) as legitimacy work to build trust with funders and communities, and (2) as (re)mediation in attending to technological barriers and resisting hegemonic systems that treat their communities as “other.” By unpacking the politics of translation work across these sites, we position CBO workers as a critical source for HCI research and practice as it seeks to support community wellbeing.
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TL;DR: Applying CloudCmp to four cloud providers that together account for most of the cloud customers today, it is found that their offered services vary widely in performance and costs, underscoring the need for thoughtful provider selection.
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"The Impact of Cloud Management Plat..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…uses document analyses of nonprofit organizations that are using CMPs. Document analyses offers a systematic way to analyze evidence to answer specific research questions through review, examination, and interpretation of documents to gain empirical knowledge of examined constructs (Frey, 2018)....

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Raymond Dart1
TL;DR: This paper examined the concept of being business-like in a non-profit organization setting, despite the increased importance of this concept in research, policy, and practice in non-profits.
Abstract: Little research has systematically examined the concept of being business-like in a non-profit organization setting despite the increased importance of this concept in research, policy, and practit...

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"The Impact of Cloud Management Plat..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Becoming business-like can, however, open the door for nonprofits to potential new types of knowledge, and sometimes power, depending on the organization type and structure, and can shift legitimacy positively (Dart, 2004; Maier et al., 2016; Melnik, Petrella, & Richez-Battesti, 2013)....

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