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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

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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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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. I’d also modestly recommend our Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Brennan has Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment and blindness. His disability, however, does not stop him from flying through his homework assignments.

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You’ve Been Missing Out!

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A Shopify store is a great fundraising tool for nonprofits that sell branded merchandise, arts, or crafts; for libraries that run book sales; and much more. It includes reporting, emails that almost correct themselves, and direct-mail design for print. No cancellation fee lets you end it anytime, and you get 50% off Cisco IP phones!

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Intercepting wildlife transferred across borders is critical to slowing illegal trade and DNA barcoding provides a public library of DNA barcode tests for enforcement officials to use as a front-line tool.

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Nonprofits Live: Social Video Recap

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The Spirit of the Gulf Coast is an all-volunteer documentary initiative founded to use photo, video and social media to report on the continued impact of the BP oil spill to Gulf Coast communities and beyond.

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TechSoup's Donation Programs Continue to Grow

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Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. This fiscal year ten new donor partners have joined with TechSoup to make their product donations available to nonprofits and libraries.

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