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A New Habitat: Transforming Communities with Remote Work Tools

Tech Soup

For an organization with more than 80 employees and volunteers, Bob also needed tools to help people work outside of the office. 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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Legacy of Hope Austin: Dreams for Kids with Special Needs

Tech Soup

Julie Lyles Carr was asked a life-changing question five years ago: "What is the one thing you would like to do to impact your community?" The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual competition to 80 children with special needs through the assistance of 80 volunteers and four professional dance schools.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. Within a short period, SocialCoding4Good has gone from a Labs pilot project to a growing community driving social impact. In this update, I’m delighted to be able to share Benetech’s latest efforts to do both. billion poor and unbanked.

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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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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

Tech Soup

This isn't a comprehensive list of all our donor partners' environmental activities, but this time I'd like to talk about Cisco and Symantec and also about our Green Technology Product Donations. Cisco: Improving Environmental Efforts on Multiple Fronts. Cisco is a longtime TechSoup donor partner.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time. Epic Change is no different. from over 635,000 total followers. That directed the build.

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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! I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer.