NTEN hosted a debate on the timely issue of open APIs and what they mean for nonprofit organizations. Some of the main vendors providing CRM services to nonprofits took part in the discussion and revealed their thoughts on open APIs, the direction their companies are moving, and what nonprofits stand to gain from this.

Our participants included:

Mark Bolgiano, moderator Council on Foundations

For-profit vendors - Tom Krackeler, GetActive; Steve Wright, Salesforce; David Lawson, Kintera; Dave Crooke, Convio; and Shaun Sullivan, Blackbaud

Nonprofit vendor - Nick Ballenger, Democracy in Action

Open Source developer - Zack Rosen, Chapter Three and Drupal

Nonprofit Organization - Peter Campbell, Goodwill Industries, San Francisco

Listen to the podcast of the debate, which is broken into two parts. Also check out what NTEN members have been saying on our blog and what was said by listeners during the live debate.