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A New Habitat: Transforming Communities with Remote Work Tools

Tech Soup

Habitat for Humanity has been working to serve the nearly 100 million homeless and 2 billion people living in slum housing around the world since 1976. He found it in hardware from the Cisco donation program , the Microsoft donation program , and Microsoft Office 365 Nonprofit. " Getting the Right Hardware from Cisco.

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NTC Storytellers: Day of Service Wireless Router Installation at Community for Creative Nonviolence

NTEN

A Photo Essay by Wendy Marinaccio A team of 30 NTEN-ers volunteered our mornings at the Community for Creative Nonviolence, which runs the largest homeless shelter in the country. Cisco donated the equipment and our fearless leaders Peter and Theresa taught us what to do. (Me Me with Peter and Theresa.)

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NTC Day of Service 2011: The Art of Story Capture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. While this may not be tech-focused, it’s still a great way to give back to the DC community.

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NTC Day of Service 2011: The Art of Story Capture

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This year's Day of Service featured three different projects - a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC's largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. While this may not be tech-focused, it's still a great way to give back to the DC community.

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Volunteer for the Day of Service at NTEN's NTC in SF on April 26th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! Every year we also do a group community project. The locations: St.

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NTC Day of Service: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. Peter did a strategy consult with a local organization. Deborah Finn's thoughts here.

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My Kumbaya Moments: Like Summer Camp for NPTechies, the NTEN Conference

Connection Cafe

I joined a group project installing a mesh wireless network on Treasure Island, a community in San Francisco which is home to many low income families many of who were previously homeless. Cisco sponsored the project and provided the hardware for the network. We are all lucky to have her at the helm of NTEN.

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