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The following was posted via Deborah Elizabeth Finn, a wonderful woman and big figure in Nonprofit Technology as well as a member of NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network)

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I'm posting this with the blessing of Annaliese Hoehling of NTEN. Please forgive me if this seems slightly off-topic.

I'm in the process of creating a directory of online tools that assist nonprofits and philanthropies with capacity mapping and resource matching. If you have an online tool or online data set that fits into this category, you're welcome to follow this link and enter a little bit of information about it:

<http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDFyNDg2Wk1pTGZ3MDJER2lqQnZ5dEE6MA>

The purpose of this directory is to help an informal brain trust of nonprofit, philanthropic, and technological professionals think about ways to bring our sector's resources and needs together as seamlessly as possible.

Now that we are living the the age of date interchange and XML formatting, it's not necessary for everything to have a single owner, a single platform, or even a single host.  (However, a single login for all such tools would certainly be a blessing.)  We want to be sure that we aren't <jargon alert> building silos or reinventing the wheel </jargon alert>.  We want to explore collaborations, consolidations, and mash ups.  If you think that your online resource should be in the mix, please add it to our quickly growing compendium.

Our informal brain trust is somewhat New-England-centric, and I feel sure that brilliant projects are in process elsewhere.  We don't want to be insular.* Please assist us by taking two or three minutes to let us know about the work your doing in online resource matching and capacity mapping.

Thank you very much!

Best regards from Deborah

* Do you know that song by Tom Lehrer?  "These are all the ones of which the news has come to Haaahvaaahd/ And there may be many others but they haven't been discovaaahed!" Some of us need to get over ourselves  :-)

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
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I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.