Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

Although your nonprofit likely isn’t anywhere close to collecting large-scale location and engagement data to sell to other firms or push hyper-targeted ads like the tech giants, the point of regulations at any level is to protect consumers (or donors) and weed out bad actors. The safest route is to ensure general compliance with the CCPA.

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MAY 22, 2013

There was tremendous optimism about the value of training engineers and scientists and how that would benefit all of humanity, especially in the southern California of a century ago which was reshaped through the wonders of technology. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Happy Hour with Nonprofit Tech Luminaries. NTEN Presents: Oregon Nonprofit Tech Roundup. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help and Consultations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi's Continuing Tech-for-Good Innovations.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (weekly). San Francisco, California: Let’s Help 826 Valencia Launch Their Tenderloin Location! Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California. Los Angeles, California: Storymakers 2017 with TechSoup and Adobe Spark.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. Benetech was founded to be a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit dedicated to creating social change at scale.

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MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. I think this is fair to say we have leading minds on both sides of the issue.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

OneRoof is software that manages all operations of an Internet café or telecentre or computer lab. which is a Berkeley, California-based B-corporation. benefit corporation) that owns and distributes the software for public access computing centers run by telecentres, nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries around the world.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

In case you haven’t heard, 501(c)(3) private foundations are now eligible to receive Microsoft donations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program. Microsoft has made several exciting updates to its software donation program to make it more convenient for all nonprofits to request software donations.

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

According to Nonprofit Tech for Good, it takes between 15-30 hours per week to create and sustain a comprehensive social media strategy. In fact, the University of California San Diego lists the ability to make a difference as a top 10 reason that people volunteer. Takeaways Social media can be a powerful tool for your nonprofit.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There are two new major online privacy policy changes coming in 2020, the CCPA in California and SHIELD act in New York. The New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Security act and the California Consumer Privacy Act. How does the CCPA apply to my organization? If your privacy page has no contact info for DSAR messages.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

2 Technology Profilers: These useful browser plugins search a site’s code and give a quick overview of the tech in use, from CMS to analytics to tracking codes. It’s also essential to revisit your privacy policy each time a significant new privacy law goes into effect where you operate, such as the CCPA in California.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. Our **San Francisco** group curates a list of [tech for good experiences each month]([link] --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! The doll takes a child's words and sends them over the Internet to cloud based voice-recognition software that can create the perfect response. Children love it. The privacy concerns are huge, though.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2017

I recently attended the California State University at Northridge (CSUN) annual technology conference , put on by the campus' Center on Disabilities. On the evening of the second night, I had the honor of meeting to Bill McCann, the inventor of Dancing Dots , a software that adapts music technology for the blind.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? The April 2015 TechSoup Green Tech Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Check out our Green Technology Page. Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? Official Rules.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? The April 2015 TechSoup Green Tech Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Check out our Green Technology Page. Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? Official Rules.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Tech basket Many people prioritize keeping up with the latest tech releases or having the best new gadgets. In the United States, areas like Napa Valley in California and the Finger Lakes in New York are popular regions for wine experiences. The 25 Best Fundraising Software Solutions to Boost Results.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Tech Entrepreneurs Mastermind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

This summer, the Financial Times of London ran a very interesting profile piece on the founder of ESRI , the company that makes professional mapping software that has been so useful to nonprofit environmentalist organizations like Conservation International and international relief organizations like the Pacific Disaster Center.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

with his colleagues in 2020 who now also collectively oversee Camp Reach for the Sky, a free camp program for kids affected by cancer that is one of only three Gold-Ribbon children’s oncology camps in California . Has extensive tech expertise from his years of startup experience in commerce, healthcare, and defense . Security Software.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. These folks do astonishing work. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I bring you: Kitties and 6 Things I Learned About Microsoft Office 365 from Linda Widdop and Sam Chenkin of TechImpact while attending the Office 365 Roadshow in Oakland, California in September. Yes, that's right. Office 365 and kitties! Let's get started, shall we? Security and Redundancy (The Good Kind).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good presents a free webinar featuring the top ten digital marketing and fundraising trends to prioritize in the following year. Nonprofit Tech for Good offers a Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising that takes an honest approach to social media. MoreWeb.org.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

These are packaged with discounted voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services that unify all your organization's telephones, mobile phones, fax machines, and computers through a virtual PBX software application. Taking Advantage Of The California Teleconnect Fund. They also offer a discounted audio conferencing.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

The James Irvine Foundation is one of the largest grantmaking institutions in California. Over the years it has provided more than $1 billion in grants to over 3,000 California nonprofits. Jeff: We started to investigate software donations from TechSoup when Microsoft changed its donations policy last year.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. For example, Victoria Walker, an 11-year-old from California, designed Rode Dog , a clever app designed to stop texting and driving. or Code for Oakland ). Library Hackathons.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

Think of it as a private-public partnership that leverages the hardware in libraries, running on the software of young programmers' dedication. While school funding and resource allocation to these programs may be controversial in other school districts, it is unsurprising and maybe even mundane here in Northern California.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

It is a sub-Saharan country on the East coast of Africa that is about twice the size of California. software solution that allows one computer to serve several people in a lab, library, or school at very low cost. Grace Ministries has wisely arranged for computer tech-support locally in case of major technical problems.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

software solution in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously. In this case, we simply found out that San Pablo, California-based nonprofit Reliatech had tried out the application all on their own. Reliatech hires Strides Center A+-certified graduates to do their IT tech support. Installation Problems.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Although there is only one winner, there are certainly no losers. Eligibility.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children. software that read a page on a computer screen out loud. Assistive Tech , the U.S. Touch the Future.

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