Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2010

This is Part 2 in TechSoup GreenTech's series on buying green IT equipment. Here's my general take on the topic: Buying and using refurbished computers is incredibly green. The longer these devices are in use, the better for the environment. See Part 1 here.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

It's not our first time advocating for charities and libraries in the hallowed halls of the U.S. TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential. The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green."

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Its staff members are intensive users of an Adobe Creative Suite TechSoup donation. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. The study also estimated the supply of PCs coming from the noncommercial refurbishment sector and also the potential for corporate donations of PCs. Using the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

They supply charities, libraries and foundations with discounted Cisco and Polycom office phones. TechSoup's Chief Business Development Officer, Gayle Carpentier, had been searching for a way to offer phone systems for nonprofits and libraries for a long time. How It All Started. How Charities Actually Use BetterWorld.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Why Is Online Collaboration Green? For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2. Donated or Discounted Online Collaboration Products. plus $2 per user license.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Basically it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. Here's what InterConnection and TechSoup supplied to them as part of the 8-station donation: Server Computer: a Core i7 Desktop, 8 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard drive. 7 NComputing L300 USB Desktop Client Devices.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. This was a five-station donation: Server computer: Core 2 Duo Dell Desktop, 6 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive. Young Pham recommends MultiPoint Server for use in any other public access environments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. This was a four-station donation: Server computer: a Core 2 Duo Dell Desktop. TechSoup and Interconnection. Four Plugable USB docking stations. One USB hub. Four keyboards. Four refurbished LCD monitors.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

From time to time, we get a chance to find out firsthand what some of our TechSoup donor partners are doing in the area of green technology and corporate social responsibility. At last count TechSoup now has 41 donation or discounted product donors for nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries. read more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Basically it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost. It is very useful in nonprofits, libraries, schools, telecenters, and any computing lab environment. Windows MultiPoint Server is regarded as an energy-saving green technology. WMS launch announcement as a TechSoup donation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

A WMS system provides an overall cost and energy savings of 66 percent compared to a traditional 1:1 computing environment. Because only one computer is needed to power a system that serves multiple users, WMS reduces energy consumption and is regarded as a green IT technology. Energy Savings. Combined average is 196 watts.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. And did they go out of there thrilled that they doubled their donation? Then I make a second donation in a very short window, period.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Microsoft has a very clear language description of how a Window MultiPoint Server environment works. It is an ideal solution for schools, libraries, small nonprofit offices, and computer labs that are on limited budgets. Refurbished host computers run a Windows MultiPoint Server environment very well. Both MultiPoint Server.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Lots of refurbishers around the world supply PCs to nonprofit training labs, libraries, and telecenters. Citizenship licensing offers $6 Windows 7 and Office Basic 2007 for computers that go to schools, nonprofits and charities, libraries, and low-income families anywhere in the world (although Office can’t go to schools).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Some real-world users include: the small Skagit Valley, Washington, library that made its computer lab movable , the Kenyan refugee camp that needed an affordable option for training displaced people, the community center in Seattle ’s Chinatown that added the Chinese language pack for its job search, ESL, and software training, and.

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