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Michael Lenczner

Michael Lenczner is the founder of Ajah, a company that offers online fundraising solutions for the Canadian nonprofit sector. He is the founding director of Powered by Data, an internationally recognized nonprofit initiative which is hosted on the Tides Canada Shared Platform. Powered by Data works with non-profits, funders, and governments to help them better use, share, and learn from data. Michael has worked in not-for-profit community ICT since the late 90s in areas ranging from international development to community wireless networking and open data.

Posts by Michael Lenczner

Building a Better BRIDGE: Open Infrastructure for the Social Sector

I’m surprised to be writing this piece. I’m surprised because a public-interest technology project led by Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup — and supported by luminary funders like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation — doesn’t seem like it should be a source of concern. And yet the BRIDGE […]

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