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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. and Canada about their technology use. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. The Big Theme and Conclusion.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Based on that message, at the following 30th TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I delivered an onstage exhortation to fellow technologists to secure their customers’ sensitive information in response to Edward Snowden’s surprise virtual TED interview. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Youth Programs Featured in TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. Childhood Cancer Support in Canada. Finally, I liked the story of Candlelighters' Childhood Cancer Support Program in Ottawa, Canada.

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Submissions Open! Enter the Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest by May 21

Tech Soup

You have until May 21 to submit your entry demonstrating your organization's or public library's innovative or outstanding use of your donated Adobe software to change lives, communities, and the world for the better. The image to the right is from is one of last year's winning submissions, Project Kindle's "I Know" book.

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Youth Programs Featured in TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. Childhood Cancer Support in Canada. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

In time, the project became a free national computer donation service that accepts donations of working used computers and supplies them to nonprofits, schools, and other agencies that want to refurbish them and provide them to disabled and disadvantaged people. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years. in Sparks, Nevada.