I've been thinking a lot about data integration lately. It's always been a significant and distinctive part of our approach. It was therefore a natural to contribute to Idealware's wonderful framework for evaluating data exchange programming tools for nonprofits.
 

The fall, 07 Stanford Social Innovation Review features a great article by Heather McCleod Grant and Leslie Crutchfield on “Creating High-Impact Nonprofits.” I had an immediate affinity to the article because the “six practices” they recommend have a strong affinity to both an activist philosophy and to the strategic use of technology. The latter may be the more controversial of the two points since the authors barely mention technology.