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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

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The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board.

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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

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Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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The library ordered 60 Dell refurbished desktop computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) to provide its patrons with Internet access. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools. The Pumpkin Church.

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Two Truths and a Lie: TechSoup New Products Edition

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This donation also includes GoDaddy's Get Found service, which helps your organization get better visibility on Internet search results. Little Green Light. Little Green Light is a cloud-based donor management system designed for nonprofits. Do not expose Little Green Light to water or bright lights.

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Our Much Improved Tech Support In TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative

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How Green Is RCI? One of their most current philanthropic projects is Connect 2 Compete , which in a big new digital inclusion program that aims to provide a PC and broadband Internet in every U.S. low-income household with children. All models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus and also with system restore capabilities.

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Nonprofit Blog Exchange

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They were normal kids, except they lived in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, where the role models and life experiences were anything but what normal kids in most parts of America grow up with. The Cabrini Green neighborhood has a high concentration of poverty, many people living on welfare, and strong street gang involvement.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Some funding is exterior, but we are and will remain a low-budget organization, relying on the volunteerism of American students and Malian citizens. We can use any help we can get!

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