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A Beginner’s Guide to Tracking In-Kind Donations for Nonprofits

Neon CRM

For example, if a company donates a bunch of laptops, and the organization chooses to use them, they receive continued benefits from those laptops. They’d likely be more valuable than a donation of laptops the organization intends to sell.

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Top 6 Myths About Refurbished Hardware

Tech Soup

TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has supplied more than 65,000 pieces of IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries in the last 10 years. Back in 2006, we started the RCI program to supply charities and libraries with good, low-cost warrantied computers that would stand the test of time.

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Moving to the Cloud? Keep These 8 Security Tips in Mind

Tech Soup

After all, companies like Box, Dropbox, and so on have an entire staff and significant financial resources dedicated to keeping your data secure, and to protect against data loss. The company ditched the change two days later , after considerable user backlash.). Cloud basics for nonprofits and libraries. spanhidden.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

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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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. 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. What this means?

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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

Tech Soup

The company is also greening its supply chain. Symantec donated more than 432,000 licenses reaching more than 23,000 organizations in 29 countries last year. Symantec's latest CSR report is also packed with much more than I can include here, but here are some interesting things the company is doing. Now a bit about us.

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