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A Beginner’s Guide to Tracking In-Kind Donations for Nonprofits

Neon CRM

For example, if a company donates a bunch of laptops, and the organization chooses to use them, they receive continued benefits from those laptops. They’d likely be more valuable than a donation of laptops the organization intends to sell. They can be harder to value as they include abstract components, like time or expertise.

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Top 6 Myths About Refurbished Hardware

Tech Soup

TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has supplied more than 65,000 pieces of IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries in the last 10 years. Back in 2006, we started the RCI program to supply charities and libraries with good, low-cost warrantied computers that would stand the test of time.

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Moving to the Cloud? Keep These 8 Security Tips in Mind

Tech Soup

Cloud-based applications and services are super convenient. Figure out whether you can use a given provider or service while still conforming to applicable laws and regulations. Sharing accounts might be convenient, and it might save you on licensing fees, but doing so can be a security liability. Before You Move to the Cloud.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. What this means? Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Windows MultiPoint Server: Resources for Refurbishers

Tech Soup

Lots of refurbishers around the world supply PCs to nonprofit training labs, libraries, and telecenters. The RRP program supplies very low-cost Microsoft Windows and Office licensing for nearly anyone fixing up used PCs. The RRP program recently added Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Premium to its roster of citizenship licenses.