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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. Video : TechSoup Romania. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

Thinking about things alone is one thing, but being a pretty typical collaborative type of nonprofit we pulled in the New Sector Alliance and some UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business volunteers to really help us think through this. Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities.

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, some of new Romanian friends wanted to contribute, but couldn't because Romania wasn't on the list of accepted credit cards. Scott Henderson summarized the initial story as: Daniela is from Romania and has three kids, the youngest with Down’s Syndrome. In recent years her mortgage went unpaid and she’s lost her house.”