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How the Bridge School Uses Tech to Educate Students Who Have Impairments

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Bay Area residents and music fans everywhere are familiar with the Bridge School Benefit concert, an annual, star-studded charity event organized by musician Neil Young. While the concert's headliners might get most of the press attention, the Bridge School itself is doing amazing work through assistive technology.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. finds that charities aren’t effectively engaging younger donors via mobile friendly channels like social media and mobile optimized websites. Charities can request Office 365 directly from Microsoft. Cloud Computing.

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And the 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge Awards Go To.

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Winning the 1 st place award for best video story, may I present “Freedom to dream” by Charity Express/ Dalit Freedom Network. Charity Express will receive: Connect2give suite annual plan. Cisco Flip camera. Virtually accepting the award on behalf of Charity Express was Britney Broadhead. Cisco Flip cameras.

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You’ve Been Missing Out!

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New to TechSoup, the PhilanTech discount program provides online grants management software to eligible nonprofits and charities. Effective communication with donors, constituents, and the public is essential to the work nonprofits and charities do. No cancellation fee lets you end it anytime, and you get 50% off Cisco IP phones!

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. Find the European Court of Justice press release here. It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! Here in the U.S.,

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I received a press release from a marketing agency on behalf of this effort, so take it with a grain of salt. The website helps networks of small-scale philanthropists develop and fund solutions to pressing social problems." over The Million Dollar Blog - the Internet Wishing Well, and for each comment they donate $1 to charity.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way.

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