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A New Habitat: Transforming Communities with Remote Work Tools

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He found it in hardware from the Cisco donation program , the Microsoft donation program , and Microsoft Office 365 Nonprofit. Habitat also benefited from consolidating its phone systems and replacing them with a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system. " Getting the Right Hardware from Cisco. spanhidden.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data. The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer. Let's Encrypt is a project in cooperation with the University of Michigan, the nonprofit Mozilla, and TechSoup donor partner Cisco. What they said may surprise you.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

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The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. NPTech Contests and Awards.

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Nonprofit Techies in New Orleans: Giving Back to the Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bernard , thanks to a generous donation from Cisco Systems. Once the network was up and running, a second group of 20 nonprofit techies road took the bus down to the Community Center and worked with local residents in the community computer center on internet skills and other computer skills.