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13 Students Graduate ITWorks Fall 2013 Program

TechImpact

In a classroom decked out with green, blue and orange balloons sat 13 young adults and a sea of their family and friends. It is a free, immersive IT training program provided to vulnerable young adults who identify as high-achieving high school graduates between the ages of 18 and 24 who have not been to college.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

In time, the project became a free national computer donation service that accepts donations of working used computers and supplies them to nonprofits, schools, and other agencies that want to refurbish them and provide them to disabled and disadvantaged people. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. possibly related classroom projects??? from DonorsChoose.org at the bottom of posts, so that readers can find opportunities to take action to help classrooms around the world. And if you???re

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Burlington Public Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. We worked with library director, Maggie Buckholz, and Janet Royer, the library system administrator and circulation supervisor. Burlington Library has around 600 patrons who use library computers each day.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. The Tools, Thoughts and Things one can Do with a little Time and Hardly any Resources blog lengthy post entitled, Village Green vs Walled Garden , talks about the challenges of getting desktop office applications users to switch.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios. and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. My Name Is Nonprofit Curmudgeon and I am an Anonymous Coward.

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