Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2014

With only a two-person IT department serving more than 200 employees and 600 volunteers, Daniel Yu, IT director for Arizona Baptist Children's Services (ABCS), has his work cut out for him. The organization works in a variety of areas, supporting the neediest children and families in its community. Transitional Program BBQ.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

The library also hosts after school programs and summer camps for children in the neighborhood of Carrefour-feuilles. Our own Tim Suttle was there only a couple of weeks ago volunteering for a local organization: Just last week I was in [Haiti] to setup a computer lab at a library (Bibliotheque du Soleil).

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Dear Ellen, Your gift could not have come at a better time to guarantee a seat in our program to a deserving student! One in five Whitfield children experiences food insecurity at least once a month.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 4, 2008

The Associated Press: Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program: "Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child ProgramBy MAY WONG – 10 hours agoSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) AP) — Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp.

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

Photo Credit: Mini Laptop Club Thanks to Sibley for sending me this fascinating article about "the laptop club"--a group of second and third graders in an afterschool program who designed their own (non-functional) laptops using construction paper, pencils, and a lot of imagination.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program. They are also considering expanding the program to other parts of the U.S.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Qgiv also offers web-based bidding for people who are participating from their laptops and mobile bidding for those who prefer to place bids from an app on their smartphones. Using their matching gifts database, donors can search their company’s name to find out if they offer any corporate giving programs. Make bidding competitive.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

The IMLS is an agency of the federal government that funds programs, innovative projects, and technology to fuel our nation's libraries. By participating in the TechSoup donation program, 9,521 public libraries have accomplished a lot. The IMLS also provides a very key resource to TechSoup: data.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 12, 2009

Hopefully, my children will become.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Assistant director John Klima explained: "We get a ton of usage on our public PCs, and the RCI program is going to help us continue to provide this valuable service to our community." The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you provide opportunities for children, show children getting opportunities they might not otherwise have. For example, if your photo and accompanying story show a young person in your program delivering groceries to an older person, go with, “Older people count on our students to bring their groceries.” I sure don’t!)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2015

Caring Partners has a powerful goal: to keep children and young adults in their homes, at their schools, and out of trouble. They also recommended finding a consultant or expert who can help with using the new programs. Thompson said that the staff uses Office 365 Newsfeed to ask questions and trade tips about using the programs.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Having Wi-Fi on a cell phone means it can connect to any wireless network just like a laptop computer. People's Emergency Center (PEC) in Philadelphia has been using Mobile Beacon quite a bit under a government-funded project that's part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. It puts them on the path to opportunity."

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The system is used by hospitals around the world to better diagnose patients, like a hospital in Rwanda that was able to identify HIV-positive children who had not been picked up by the pediatric program to get them on life-saving treatment. A program or system that has proven indispensable to accomplishing your goals?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Let’s say you have an opening for a program manager. Get your employees set up with an encrypted laptop and make sure they sign into a secure VPN to help protect extremely sensitive IPs. The age of using simple birthdays and children’s names are over. Saving on these common costs isn’t the only benefit.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. Privacy and Security.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Your survey resizes automatically to adjust to desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone screen dimensions. TechSoup FluidSurveys Donation Program. Here at TechSoup, FluidSurveys offers one year of its Pro plan at a substantial discount (admin fee is $30). Now with 5.0, New Mobile Features. Helpful Links.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

PC Rebuilders and Recyclers (PCRR) is our newest RCI refurbishment partner and is now providing enhanced tech support to our program. I'll explain more on that below, but here's some background on the RCI program. Arrow Value Recovery has been with us since the beginning of the RCI program when they were called Redemtech.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Since the New Orleans Public Library's bookmobile was no longer operational, Copel starting driving around a tricycle (and then later, a book bus) with free books for children and teens of all ages. She also started a community garden that holds events with food and literacy programs. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. The Sharing Foundation employs Cambodians to run its programs in country. s education programs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

C3 educates children in schools, exhibits at community art crawls, and partners with other organizations to host community art projects, all using recycled materials to create works of art. As Betsy says, "One of the things we say about art is that it's a universal language. " Part of a Movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? He also described the educational projects in Second Life where young people are constructing their own worlds and are teaching other programming skills as well as social, economic, and cultural interaction.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

First of all, these children have taught themselves. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. You get yourself some kind of together and you kind of meander and find your way to your laptop. And then there are other children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Urban Sprouts , a school gardening program, allows volunteers, as well as staff, to post on their blog. March of Dimes' Share Your Story blog allows families with children in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) to share their experiences with one another.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

There were appalled at the plight of women and children. They were both financial accountants at KPMG and were on a walking holiday when they were confronted by the chronic poverty they encountered in the rural villages of Nepal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!)

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Children’s Health. With the ongoing trend of adding stickers to water bottles and laptop cases, making branded stickers is sure to get interest from supporters! They’ll be sure to stick them onto their water bottles, phone, keychains, or even their laptops. Water bottles, yoga mats, and journals. Older adults.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Save the Children. Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. Darien Nature Center’s site has a unique goal—to inspire visitors to close their laptops and come out for a visit! Mustard Seed Communities.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I was flying into DFW and I had my laptop out and I was preparing a presentation and I was wondering, you know, “Do I know what I’m getting into?” a small nonprofit who serves children with disability, raising $91,000 on a regional giving day. Where will we focus the program? ” What is that problem?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

That also means good news for the shopping for charity programs. Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort.

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