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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. Fast Forward to 2012. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with either a Windows XP or Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. The program is scheduled to launch in late 2012 or early 2013.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Courage, Leadership, Grandmothers, Half The Sky and The Mission List

Have Fun - Do Good

Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon. It will take place on on November 27, 2012 - the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. I'm completely biased!

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Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

Please note that because the conversations take place over six years, some people's work and lives have changed. Women, Girls, Education and Global Health. Women, Girls, Education and Global Health. They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names! Happy listening! Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Nonprofits Live: Online Collaboration on October 25

Tech Soup

Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. Pierre Khawand can be contacted via e-mail at pierre@people-onthego.com or phone at 415.503.1649.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

” In other words, if the new PC market grows by by 9% worldwide in 2012 as is forecast by the business research firm IDC , then the used PC market will grow as well. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Order volumes have increased 25 percent in 2011.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

Causes began as a Facebook app in 2007, and became independent in 2012. To that end, Salesforce1 for Nonprofits keeps track of people not so much as customers, but as nodes on a social graph.” BRIDGE is an acronym for Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities. It was one of the original 10 Facebook apps.

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