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APRIL 14, 2022

Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Chicago 2022 was a brand-new opportunity for the Salesforce DevOps community to connect and share expertise at a designated conference. Session topics ranged from high-level process breakdown and product features to hands-on pipeline setups and experiential community experiences.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Read on for a little Monday morning inspiration and then take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office. Want to share.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. Skills-Based Volunteering.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. This is exactly the innovative campaign that nonprofits should be getting behind and partner more with creative community members to produces. Diverse Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simply app development. They both have good documentation and active communities. But perhaps a cool project will manifest, and I can use it. In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If the goal is to work more productively and cost-effectively, nonprofits using a laptop or netbook and their own personal Wi-Fi network for use wherever and whenever they need it, have more options. Provide community-based access points for your programs. Empower field staff with instant access to online databases.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

The IMLS is an agency of the federal government that funds programs, innovative projects, and technology to fuel our nation's libraries. Perhaps more importantly, these savings allow libraries to focus on helping community members find their next job or start a small business. TechSoup and the IMLS Are Library Champions.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn has been part of the Qgiv extended family since 2019—we proudly partner to help make a difference in our communities. Q: Are there community resources available? Carolyn has many years of hands-on experience working in the trenches of nonprofit fundraising across Texas and beyond. Q: What if one I have only basic office skills?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The nonprofit provides laptops, tablet computers, training, and other technology resources to elderly people. The organization began as a project of Jane Ratliff, inspired by her own 86-year-old mother’s quick and easy grasp of using an iPad purchased by Ratliff and her brother. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

Build your salary into your budget as an expense and be sure your revenue projections are certain enough that you can cover your new nonprofit salary. Your community foundation or United Way may be able to help you find the right professional to advise you as you go down this path. How about the laptop you purchased for work?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Crowdfunding is a great way to raise money from the masses to help underwrite projects for your nonprofit. Over at Community Organizer 2.0 , they featured a campaign by the Center for Great Apes. Read more from Community Organizer 2.0 An Unexpected Nonprofit Fundraising Story [Community Organizer 2.0].

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Large-Format Photography. " Exemplary Work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Large-Format Photography. " Exemplary Work.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. and Canada about their technology use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. My background is in community media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup, builds apps that help communities solve pressing issues. To help kick off Caravan's next breakfast, happening on May 1, I thought I'd follow up with one of projects, LocalFreeWeb , discussed in October, and see how it was progressing. A Simple Digital Inclusion Tool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The nonprofit provides laptops, tablet computers, training, and other technology resources to elderly people. The organization began as a project of Jane Ratliff, inspired by her own 86-year-old mother’s quick and easy grasp of using an iPad purchased by Ratliff and her brother. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. NpTech Community. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. " Findhabeas.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

For awhile now, we at TechSoup (parent organization to the MaintainIT Project ) have been working with our corporate partners to open more donation programs to public libraries. Tags: Green Office Community Tech Centers Community Tech Centers Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers GreenTech.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

Our museum members particularly like Microsoft Project and SQL Server. TechSoup's hardware programs offer both new and factory-refurbished commercial-grade laptop and desktop computers to our members. That's why Microsoft products are among the top products requested by museums at TechSoup. Save on Microsoft software.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask. Second, it helps build a community of trust and collaboration: the "I know I will get three or more good ideas" as well as, "I had that experience!" They also support a community of practice, noted above.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

When we found out about Lovay Wallace-Singleton's new project to build a solar-powered organic garden in North Carolina, one that also brings rehabilitation and jobs to veterans, we had to talk to her. The full name of Lovay's project is Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden. for disabled veterans. Nothing is wasted.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2012

It's an undertaking with a lot of pressure riding on the project's success. Your event is competing for your community's attention. Skip the paper and register them on a laptop, instantly accessing their information. Are you responsible for your nonprofit's event management? Who is the target audience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

One of the participants mentioned that they were going to start regular walking meetings with staff, to ensure they keep moving but also build community. Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds?

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Most donors won’t give large sums without a genuine understanding of how that gift will impact their community and help them achieve their own philanthropic goals. They’ve proven that they’re willing to invest in your cause in a way that has a huge impact on your ability to serve your community. Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

C3 educates children in schools, exhibits at community art crawls, and partners with other organizations to host community art projects, all using recycled materials to create works of art. QuickBooks helps keep the organization's accounting information available when board members or community members ask.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

" The online community will then vote on the one to use. Our friends at TechSoup Global are getting ready for N2Y4, and Amy Sample Ward announced the opportunity to become a N2Y4 Project Champion and get a free ticket to the event. Thanks, Peter! And back to my 2009 NTENnies Highlights: Lou August. See more here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Next, look to protect your donor, client, and project information across your entire network of "endpoints" (desktops, laptops, and servers) with Symantec's donated enterprise-level security software. This usually means setting up a second server to back up data as you work, or configuring a NAS to serve as a backup.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Having Wi-Fi on a cell phone means it can connect to any wireless network just like a laptop computer. People's Emergency Center (PEC) in Philadelphia has been using Mobile Beacon quite a bit under a government-funded project that's part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. Tell Your Story.

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