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What Best Practices Exist in the Nonprofit Sector to Improve Operational Effectiveness and Achieve Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly under pressure from funders, clients, and others to “prove” that they are achieving their mission effectively and efficiently (Renz and Murray, 2010). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed.

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Tech Tools to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Tech Soup

Some of the biggest ways your nonprofit or library can make an. admin fee: $24–$31) is the backbone of most nonprofit and library. Office suites include: OneNote 2010: More than any other program for me, OneNote is a handy note-taking program that virtually eliminates the need for notepads. million sheets of. paper a year.

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How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Tech Soup

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. By proper tech planning I mean the things that TechSoup for Libraries Technology Planning Cookbook talks about: Pulling together a committee of stakeholders to serve on a planning committee. Proper Tech Planning.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. As an example, let’s think about a community library. But when you look at it from the goal of ending homelessness, you see partnerships with those other shelters, as well as the job training centers, the food bank, and even the library. And then something exciting happened.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. Growing Supply and Increasing Demand.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. Growing Supply, Increasing Demand.

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Great reads from around the web on February 20th

Amy Sample Ward

2011 Online Giving Report – “'2011 did not have the 35% year-over-year growth rate in online giving that happened in 2010, but online fundraising did not lose its mojo,' said Steve MacLaughlin, co-author of the Report and Blackbaud’s director of Internet solutions. 'Every

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